VAPID CONVERSATION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 171, 25 August 1914, Page 3

VAPID CONVERSATION.

The impressions of a Norwegian girl in London are very striking as recounted in the "Gentlewoman."

She is greatly disappointed in our architecture ; —thinks our houses quite 4iideous.

She had heard so much of Park Lane that she expected to see a long row of palaces, instead of the higgledypiggledy ugly houses in that thoroughfare.

We eat too much. '' In Norway," she says, '' where- it is. very cold, and we all require much food to.'keep us warm, we do not eat one-third the quantity that the English eat; cur meals are. simpler and shorter. I believe that this is the cause of the enormous amount of indigestion that is suffered by the English." She is astonished at the silly, vapid, inane conversation that goes on in English drawing rooms. There is, she finds, no play of intellect, very little humour, only just talk of silly nothings accompanied by empty laughter. In one important respect England scores. We are fond of open air, whereas Norwegians hate fresh air.