LONDON’S IMPROVED MORALS.

Lake County Press, Issue 2115, 26 April 1906, Page 7

LONDON’S IMPROVED MORALS.

| During the last twenty years the moral improvement oi .London has been so remarkable that it might ; be imagined that its inhabitants had some cause for self-congratulation. Not. that the Metropolis is a perfect city ; it would he the most ludicrous . folly to suggest it ; hut we arc in- ; finitely better than we were. There are still many open scandals that ail decent folk must, look upon with detestation : yet each year sees them , diminish. Our music halls are so respectable ! that the coyest of us may watch the performance in perfect, safety. After half-past twelve the young blood has no opportunity for that, rowdyism that delighted his grandfather, lie can neither dance nor sing, nor, I with impunity, bonnet (he police. ! Bridge at his club is his only re- | source, and even at. that haven he | will be fined if lie stays later than ' half-past two or thereabouts. Din- : tier tippling is falling away as a fashion with a rapidity that alarms I the purveyors of claret, port, and all ! wines, save, perhaps, champagne, i Gambling is for moderate stakes, ior moderate iu the sense that, no estates are won at a sit t ii^g^^xva- \ clubs will chatter for a mouth over a member's reputed loss of live iiundeed pounds at the card table. Indeed, were our old friends Tom mid Jerry to revisit the glimpses of tfe moon and perambulate London in | search of midnitrht adventure they would hardly find enough of li to , fill a four-page pamphlet. "Vanity j Lair.''