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Evening Star, Issue 14163, 13 September 1909, Page 8

matter chiefly of personality. Tact, selfcontrol, kindness, a .desire to elevate and improve, he enumerates as among the chief essentials, and yet one cites instances here of five girk of one family, each possessing all .these characteristics, and, apparently, other equal advantages, and vet, mysteriously enough, one reaches the summit of the spcial ladder and the others remain at the bottom.

The absence of a great leisured class, 6iich as exists in London .and Paris, is another reason mentioned here why American society is going to the "bow-wows." However, the topic is being discussed without acrimony, and even with cheerfulness, by the average American, who thinks more of the prospect of the crops than of 4he> alleged decadence, socially, of America's "upper .ten."—'Telegraph's' correspondent.