LONDON’S IMPROVED MORALS.

Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 50, 17 July 1906, Page 8

LONDON’S IMPROVED MORALS.

During the last twenty years moral improvement of London has been so remarkable that it might 1 be imagined that its inhabitants ha<f some cause for self-congratulation. Not that the Metropolis is a perfect, city ; it would bo the most ludicrous folly to suggest it ; but we are infinitely better than we were. There are still many open scandals that all decent folk must 1 look upon with detestation ; yet each year sees them diminish.

Our music halls are so respectable that the coyest of us may watch theperformance in perfect safely. AftTj half-past twelve the young blood has no opportunity for that rowdyism that delighted his grandfather. He can neither dance nor sing. nor, with impunity, bonnet the police. Bridge at his club is his only resource, and even at that haven he will be fined if he stays later than halUpast two or thereabouts. Dinner tippling is falling away a* a fashion with a rapidity that alarms the purveyors of claret, port, and all wines, save, perhaps, champagne.

Gambling is for moderate stakes, or moderate in the sense that no estates are won at a sitting nowadays, and that the majority of our clubs will chatter for a month oyer a member's reputed loss of five hundeed pounds at the .card table. Indeed, were our old friends Tom and Jerry to revisit the glimpses of the moon and perambulate London in search of midnight adventure they would hardly find enough of It to fill a four-pa'ge pamphlet.—“ Vanity Fair."