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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 211, 30 May 1908, Page 10

It is said that eleven meals a day arc served on board Atlantic liners, and there is a.movement'in Now York shipping circles to diminish this superfluous supply of food. -We hnva always found, however, that there has been sufliciont movement in the liners themselves to diminish tho demand. The. invention'of an automatic violin has caused a considerable sensation in London musical circles. Musicians maintain that they hj'o now looking forward to what is pretty sure to follow —namely, the patenting of automatic- bagpipes. And—as the late Poet Laureato briefly put it—"aftor that, tho dark." Lady Cordon, in her book, "Unforgono Conclusions," takes up cudgels' for young people in matters of family friction against "such . time-honoured institutions -as parents." ' Wo aro so impressed by . her arguments that wo wonder whether, sentiment apart,, it'would.not bo better for the race to abolish thoso ombloms of autinuity altogether-