SCHOOL TEACHERS ON HOLIDAY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21685, 20 January 1936, Page 9

SCHOOL TEACHERS ON HOLIDAY

TO TUB EDITOR OB THE PRESS. Sir, —Peter Trolove has caught me at a busy time when he asks me to help him in this latest controversy. He wants to be in it, too. but I think we would be both safer out of it. However, I will try to merit the distinctlon he has conferred on me. By some mischance my name did not appear in the list of New Year honours, but this will more than make up for

the omission. To show my loyalty to cur sex, I would say to “Beelzebub,” “Bravo, spoken like a man.” Still, we must give the offender some sort of a trial, just for the look of it, but I leave the summing up to Mr Trolove himself, as I feel it is too risky for me. On “Beelzebub’s” evidence these girls did not like beer and were not good dancers. He did not mention smoking, sp we must conclude they either smoked or did not, whichever is considered worst. It was most unkind, too, to ask so sharply for the salt, especially if he happened to be m the midst of telling some tall story. I feel, somehow, that “Beelzebub” is holding back something worse: he tells us how they behaved when he took them out rowing or to tennis, but on how they comported themselves on the Quicksands of New Brighton he is discreetly silent. He does not deny that they eat with their knives, a most dangerous practice. Then to show their appreciation of the soup, no doubt they send it hissing through their teeth, though there is no real harm in that, if the plates hold. There are strong suspicions in other directions, but 'a judicial mind must be preserved and only genuine evidence admitted. However, we have more than enough of this to secure a conviction, and I leave it to Mr Trolove to deal with these girls and their holidays. He must be sure though to keep an eye on “Beelzebub,” for whatever seclusion they may be banished to, there will he and many of him be found hanging round, and on the in .^ e earl y morning the nrst thing the girls will notice will be the prints of the devils.—Yours, etc., T A S January 19. 1936.