CHOIR GIRL'S CRITICISM.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1336, 13 January 1912, Page 11

CHOIR GIRL'S CRITICISM.

COLONIALS BRIGHT. Somo.of the Yorkshire lassies irho ncoompaniecl the Sheffield Choir ill their tour of the world have returned home with somewhat motlifipd views on the subject of Yorkshire, hospitality, and do not appear to altogether appreciate the apparent lack of enthusiasm with which tliey have-been received at Home. "When I-got back into Yorkshire, said a Ilonlcv girl, who was with the choir, "everything seemed to nave a depressing elTect niter the way m winch wq 'liavo been roseived by tho colonials. The neople in the colonies aro chccrful and tright. but her&—ugh! they are wooden and stolid. "In Australia and South Africa the settlers . take to you straight away, but lioto even, your intimate friends look at you almost with indifference." Were tho male colonials nice, and had any of the ladies of the choir been left behind? ; "Yes, one was married at Durban, and remained there. Another accepted a situation in Johannesburg, an-1 it was rumoured in the choir that fhe had 'been someone' there. A third 1.-id returned homo from South Africa, but was going back." Englishmen living in ib© colonics, it appears from the conversation. rr> very much prejudiced against colinial girls. "Four or fivo of thpm said to me that they would not like to marry a colonial irirl. The colonial girl is not s.ilticicntly domesticated, and is altogether 100 n'annish." One of the things which appealed c onsiderably to the sympathies of this Yorkshire girl was the way in which English soldiers crowded to the concsrts given by the choir whenever they were within rench of a military station. "Wc could see large patches of red in the audience where the soldiers wctc seated," she said, "and they seenicd to listen to our homeland songs particularly with rapt attention." A young officer, stationed at Bloemfontein, had presented her with tho lance flag and "buckct" he carried through the late South Africaji war. Yet she is not "going back."