VAPID CONVERSATION.

North Otago Times, Volume C, Issue 13145, 28 August 1914, Page 3

VAPID CONVERSATION.

The impressions of a Norwegian girl in London are very . striking as recounted in the "Gentlewoman,"

She is greatly disappointed in our architecture—thinks our houses quite hideous, She had heard so much of Park Lane that she expected to see a long row of palaces, instead of the higgledypiggledy .ugly houses in that thoroughfare,

We eat 100 much. ''ln Norway,"she says, "where it is very cold, and we all require much food to keep'us warm, we do not eat;one-third the quantity that the English eat; cur meals are simpler and shorter. I believe that this is the cause of the enormous amount of indigestion that is.snflfered by the English."

She is astonished at the.silly, vapid, inane conversation that goes on in English drawing Tooms,There is, she linds, no play, of inteUeoi", very, littlehmnoiir, only just talk'of silly, nothings accompanied by empty laughter. , In.one important respect England scores, Wo. ace : fond .of open air, whereas Norwegians hate fresh air."