Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.

Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

Childhood is but change made gay and visible.