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...Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his host, Lord Lonsdale, sat in another. A man with a megaphone at a crossroad was announcing the second coming of the Lord and flaying gambling. Approximately every fifth person in Great Britain was gambling. A dentist's assistant in Capetown, South Africa, had a valuable slip of paper in his pocket. Some 300,000 people were watching 23 horses. It was Derby Day at Epsom Downs, where hills scallop the landscape and a dimple among them makes a natural bowl for a race course...
...right-loving Britons were deeply scandalized last week when the following statistics became known through the diligence of a correspondent of the Daily Mail at Capetown, South Africa...
...business men. I met a fellow who was genuinely surprised to find that I was not colored. Others were dumbfounded to hear that the Boers were quite civilized, that I was a typical Boer. Most people seem to think that lions and tigers are shot as easily in Capetown as cashiers and jewelers in New York.-Eric H. Louw, Commissioner for the Government of the Union of South Africa...
...this another instance of the extreme democracy of the frontier spirit? Or is it a revulsion of feeling among European settlers against the observed Ethiopian craze for personal adornment? The urge for decoration moves both the European courtier and the dusky noble. The Capetown celebrity, who has seen the necks of native chiefs hung with alarm-clocks and frying-pans, may yearn with less avidity for the Order of the Garter or of the Bath. The gap between medals and tatooing is no greater than that between Picadilly and the jungle...
...Capetown cable must certainly have carried to London the significance of this revolt. Perhaps the knights and baronets and others of the beribboned bosom will feel a slight, well-hidden blush at their kinship with less civilized but just as happy cousins of the Bush...