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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18591, 16 January 1926, Page 16

A residential club for elderly women who would otherwise lead lonely lives is being built near Sunningdaie, and will be opened next spring. AVl;en it is rcadv 100 women over fifty-five will be able to take up residence there. Lady Bertha Dawkins, Woman of the Bedchamber to the Queen, and one of the workers for i the club, said to nil interviewer: "Thej club is intended for those who have ! an income of between £.lO and £I'JU a i year. They will each pay Gs (id a week j for a room and 10s for board. The j club will be run on the lines of other j women's clubs, and will provide most of the usual amenities.

ytar.y public-houses did not produce much drunkenness, for in those days men drank honest beer, and not whisky to rot their vitals, nor 'Lloyd George's swipes to distend their stomachs without warming their hearts," writes the Rev. E. J. G. Porse. Vicar of Sout).bourne, Bournemouth, in his parish mazagine, commenting on the small iiumber of public-houses in his parish to-day. Some will say," he proceeds, "that those who drink beer, think beer. I don t myself (except on holiday), because since the war there has been no decent beer in England. But I will tell jou who did drink beer—every day at breakfast, dinner, supper, and between whiles—Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser John Bunyan, and Queen Elizari. • ?[ 0U ma y with contempt on their thoughts if you like."