Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-04
Cleaned from Foreign Elk
changes

L
don has gone jazz mad" which [ take
to mean in simple English that every
body who can is enjoying as much
dancing as possible after four years
enforced abstinence.
1t is natural enough that people
should enjoy it. 1t may sound frivol-
Gus, but most men and women have
earned the right to d certain amount
of frivolty after four years incessant
fighting and war work. Entertain
ments of various kinds (but chiefly
dancing) have been organized for these
people, who are approaching to the
full such entertainments, and who
shall blame them?
L have been referring to people who
were known in pre-war days as the
'leisured classes" L should like to
talk about people who never have
been, never will be "Ieisured," and who
have put all their hearts and brains
and muscles at their country's dis
posal during these last sad years.
What about their pleasures?
Oh! yes, l know they can go to the
theatres and cinemas, which constitut-
ed their sole. much needed relaxation
| throughout the war. But Just now
they want not only to ''be amused but
to ''amuse themselves" They have
high spirits, healthy bodies, these
yourg men and women, they like to
use their voices in cheerful song and
chorus; above all, they love to dance.
1t is almost as necessary to think
and plan and contrive entertainments
! for men and women as to find work
for them. Without such planning and
| continuance pleasure is apt to degen-
crate into folly. it may even be into
disaster.
| It would appear that the present is
a very great opportunity for the
| churches. One hears constant COM
| plants that religion is a. thing apart
! from the people. I do not think that
! such complaint would ever be heard
| again if the clergy and ministers OF
| all denominations set themselves seri-
ously to organizing the peoples pleas
| ures.
/ Hundreds of years ago the necessity
! for such organization was fully recog-
| nized. and the population were prac-
| ticauy dependent for recreation upon
| the clergy,
! There are spots in London which
are still pointed out as the scenes oil
| production of the old Miracle Plays sc
| highly appreciated by our forefathers
| We are fond, many of us, of talking
| about the good old days" I have sell
! dom been able to find much foundation
! for such description, but the instance
! ferred to was certainly all to the good
, Can't it be resurrected? The hearts Of
| our people, old and young would be
! brought very near to those of then
ministers prepared to take careful
thought of their needs in joy as vel
| as in sorrow.
"Bacon box stuff" is the contemptu-
GUS description by secondhand deal
ers for much of the new furniture nov
| being hastily manufactured. Such il
the shortage of timber and the demand
for furniture that packing cases, sugar
boxes, etc, supply the material fol
bedroom suites.
One dealer confided to the writer
that he had been offered suites in two
grades. When he asked the difference
in quality between the two, the trav.
eler replied: well, in the cheaper lint
we can't guarantee that names like
Best Cured Hams or 'Parson Oats
won't show up under the varnish. II
the better quality we guarantee thu
wood is stained right down.
A conscientious objector, who TO
being such passed some months il
Norwood Scrubbs has given to tn
Book Monthly his experiences of TIL
kind of books that brought him mos
solace in his enforced confinement.
IL says Ne 1 were SplitS 1Ht'
prison again and were allowed to talk
my own books, 1 would include tn
Tcvels of George Tbot, Jane Austen
Anthony Trollope, and Thomas lIar
, dy; the poetry of Wordsworth, Cow
per, and Goldsmith and the Essays 0
Charles Lamb"
"My favorite painting is the one
am going to do next said Mr.. Angus
tus John to an interviewer a few year
ago, and his easel is now occupied b
the canvas on which he is to paint
picture of the Paris conference.
Jointly with Sir William Orpen, Nj
John has been entrusted by the prim
; minister TO make this historic recort
, Il is just three years ago that tn
great Welsh artists portrait of Nj
, Lloyd George, then minister Of mt,
nitions, challenged orthodoxy. Tha
portrait, which hangs in the Aberdee
, Gallery, is not the least like the pop
! ular and Photographic conception c
, the prime minister but it is, never
, theless, true likeness of the maj
for it is the incarnation of energy an
/ determination.
, Westminster Abbey's bells, whic
are now being put in order, do nc
: unfortunately include that famou
, bell, Great Tom, of Westminster
: which was formerly rung on all i'm
: Dortant occasions. It hung for centur
lies in the Clock Tower of the Roys