MOTHER AND THE MOTOR.
Tho headmaster of Harrow has been airing a grievance:— " Thero wore two modern developments which, schoolmasters could not regard with unqualified satisfaction—the telephone and tho motor-car. Maternal solicitude was apt to take unfair advantage of those institutions. At Harrow they were constantly being ' rung-up' and asked whether they were thero, and whenever a mother took a boy for a short motor-run, under promise that 110 should be back for four o'clock bell, thero was always a punctured tyre to compel the boy to have his tea in the next county. But the case of subsequent headmasters would fie worse; for it was easy to imagine them watching a cloud of maternal balloons hovering over the school-vard." This is really a dreadful sidelight 011 the unscrupulousncss of mothers. But the motorcar does undoubtedly raiso really difficult questions of discipline. Keeping in bounds and the possession of a motor-car arc not also easily reconciliable.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 311, 25 September 1908, Page 3
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