The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-11-20
DETERIORATION or MORALS
IN ENGLAND IS NOTED.
Officer Shocked At What He
Saw After Absence Of Many
Years; Finds Women
Smoke

London. Nov e0.-A Bengal colonel
Just returned TO England after 81
years in India, walls at the changes he
finds in Lcndon.
lzmenfag en- changed conditions
the fan o1s old warrior deelaims:
! returned home 8 week or TWO
ago after beng cut east fer 81 years.
and ! sighed for my ola home and for
London.
i returned home Home. do az
! felt Ike a visitor in some foreign
land
Everything has changed. The
women. the girls. the men. the rules
q the city, the social code-they are
all totally different And they've
not changed Tor the better. No. BY
Gandhi, they've not They've al gone
rotten. downright rotten.
In 1895 il was only by an act of
courtesy that We we're permitted 10
smoke in a woman's presence. Today
every woman you nee, in a public
restaurant blows cigarette smoke in
your face Brazen hussiesl
Language I'm net a prude, but
blush to hear s-me q the swear
words which women hurl al each
other.
Only the other esy was astound
cd 70 hear the daughter Of very re
spected old friend Of mine. a I.ndon
vicar using sanguInary adjective
which. when ief, England was only
associated with eabmen. knew that
this silly, inofienslve word had been
used On the stage by Mr George Ber-
nard Shaw TO advertise play of his.
had no knowledge ihat Il had be
come part OF the vocabulary OF de-
cent social circles
SO far as British womanhood +
concerned It Is quite apparent 10 me
that morals persisted with the war
How the young men have deterio.
ated' None OF them apnear to make
any effor 10 dress deceaty. walked
through Pail Mall, Bond street and
fieoadilly and encountered enc SIX
hat. lounge suits and sloch hats were
the rule. The youngster who looked
the most sloycnly seemed the mos,
fashionable Bah
1t is no good calling al neonle,.
homes There Is never anyb dy G,
home today The clubs-when I was 4
last IN Ensland was a well-known 4
cluoman-have. so far as am con. 4
ceFned, ceased to exist The few
members who still resort 10 Pail Mail
are old and disoppinted men. Their
society is appalling There i, nothing
oo' the comradship OF good hu,nor
winch so DISTINGUISHED London club
NE in lSs1 The manners pravslep,
n the Mall 81 today are execrable,
went into my club last week and wa.
ls'ounded when an old friend OF mine
'HeFed me a drink In 1895 a decent
mans club wss regarded as his home \
. YOU wanted to drink you ordered i,
Is you would do in your own smok.
na room. No enc thought OF saving.
Wait are You going to have" A. il
you wee IN public house with /,
'rowd q tar l-aters.
All tlh may seem very strange to
'ou. YOU PEOPLE who have been grow
ng up in England for the past q
ears. You have hardly noticed the
'hanges which have taken place in the |
'atianal life. But 10 one who has !,
pent = years lin India this new Lon
Ion q yours comes as a surprise and
shock. Ycu have read abou, the
unohanging east. and you may 4,
axe {; from nc that the code OF con
uct in Indian life has changed
cry little since first went % that
ountry. We have been introduced 10
he fox tTo; and the isz. band
7 am g1ing back 20 India. | am
ad and sorry, for loved London.
'es. loved it--once upon at time