A CHRISTMAS JAUNT 



help contrasting the result of convent 

 training with the manners taught, or the 

 bad manners uncorrected, in our public 

 and private schools, where the fashion 

 of entering or sustaining a conversation 

 is to out-scream other participants. 

 Surely if our girls knew how they could 

 win to the heart by sheer charm of voice, 

 a charm that will endure when others 

 fail, they would try to make their own 

 the beauty of our English speech when 

 fitly spoken, with pure intonation, in 

 measure to the occasion. It has been my 

 lot to see half-a-dozen golfers who only 

 desired to eat their meat in peace, deaved 

 by the clamour of a group of young 

 ladies at the other end of a club dining- 

 room, driven forth to their own sanctu- 

 ary, at which haven arriving one by one 

 each sighed an independent and fervent 

 " thank God." 



The " People's Railway," as one 

 might expect, accommodates itself to the 

 public. An irritated traveller who had 



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