The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-05
VICTORIANS AGAIN GO DOWN BEFORE
 MARCH OF EVENTS
Conservative Englishmen See Dainty Feet Enter Their
 Staid Clubs

LONDON. August 4.--(By Asso- ciated Press )-The modern English woman Is stepping more and more into places where her Victorian mother feared to tread. Only this week conservative English gentlemen watched dainty feet enter another precinct where for q hundred years entrance was limited to the Wearers of male otgear-Tat ttersalls, the fla nous horse market at Goodwood, where society flocks at the end of the summer season.
 Heretofore in this widely known mart only masculine bids have been heard. It was considered no place for Ia woman Nowadays several racing stables are owned by women, so the 1 conservative oldtimers had to bow once more to the inevitable and let the ladies in to bid for or dispose of their horses.
 Gradually since the suffrage era women have been gaining admittance to mems political clubs. One after an- other of these institutions have suc- cumbed to the entrance of the gentler sex, and their walls are echoing the new sound of women's voices. The Carlton club in Pail Mall set tied by compromise the pleas of the women against the opposition Of old Conservatives. The die-hards won their fight to keep women out, put had to give in by procuring building behind the clubhouse in which to care for women luncheon guests.
 Last week also produced the women golf professionals in the British Isles. Fewer Crimes Reported.
 Although the personnel of the Met ropolitan police was reduced 1000 in 1922, there was a decrease in crime and in the value of property stolen, l nP comm issioner of police. This, how ever had been offset by an increase
 in frauds of all kinds in the metrop- olis
 The police find the finger print sys-
 tenn very useful and now possess a collection of 379,110 prints. Of 36,lQ2 forms received for research under this system last year, 15,149 identifiCations
 resulted. the report states.
 | The commissioner reports 30,7s9
 convictions for drunkenness, or s,3s9
 more than in 1921. Nearly 100 cases
 of consumption of methylated spirits were reported.
 dents. Although hundreds of persons
 were prosecuted, the bookmakers
 gained large sums of money and bet i ting continues unabated, the report states.
 As far as the official world and i fashionable society are concerned, London becomes a deserted town inn mediately after the adjournment or Parliament. The royal family leads 1 the migration into the country with all the leisure and vacationing classes following suit. The King and Queen spent most -bf the last week at the Goodwood races as guests of the Duke of Richmond. Goodwood is unique among race tracks because their maJ- esties' host is it's sole proprietor. The
 races are more infQymal than those at Ascot.
 King George this year caused the announcement to be made that men
 were not expected to wear silk hats
 and the newspapers published this
 statement with as much solemnlty as
 though it were an official pronounce
 ment of the highest importance, After the stay at Goodwood, the
 royal family will proceed to their an nual sojourn in Scotland, as usual :.
 will spend some weeks in Balmorai
 castle, which was Queen Victoria s ia
 yorite home, and will also participate 1 in shooting parties at some of the great Scottish castles. The king still | holds the reputation of being one or
 the bert shots in the United King
 dom.
 One event of considerable interest to men during the past social season
 was the revival of the frock coat This garment for more than ten years past had been regarded as ralment for the older men, but 1t came into
 it's own again at the last royal garden party and was not discriminated against by young or old. Next year the frock coat probably will replace the cutaway for wedding and dress occasions in the daytime.