GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10380, 5 December 1912, Page 6

GENERAL.

WISDOM FROM BOOKS. — ¥. —■

DRESS AjNDi THE POLITICIAN. «

Mr Winston Churchill is said to prefer a close-fitting overcoat to any other. Hel does noit care for 'Ulsters.'"

"Mt Lloyd George is very ke|en on 'checks'; the lan-ger they are the twitter he is pleased." "Mr Agquith when on holiday has ai predilection for coloured shirts. The only stimulation he makes is that they must not 'be of purple 1, green, and white."

M!r Redmond is a nrm> believer in Home-made Clothes, and is going) to seig that he gets .then*. He' cannot stand Einiglish ties, and has a preference for a strong brogue to any othwr footwear."

"Lord Haldane advocates' a sitout drill, and always go in for a uniform colour."

"Lord Halsbuiy has gone back to ordinary trousers. Hje.i6 said to Lavs a great dislike; to the modern Breeches of the Constitution."'

"The Leader of the Opposition is a Law unto himself in the matter of clothes. He doe® not believe in. dressing up, but on occasions can give other people"a dressing down."

"Mr Eeir Hiardie affects » soft hat with ventilaition. holetei in the top. It is understood that this enables, him to talk through it."

"The Lord Chancellor is a stout apostle of Jaeger clothing. Elvien in the gilded chamber 'itself he insists on sitting on a sack of wool." "Foreign; Secretaries in thel pas+ have favoured various colours, but GREY has bieen the popular fancy for some yea,rs." __ "Mr Ramsay Macdonald contends that the! power of the workers depends largely on strbng 'Combinations,' and is always trying to impres® this npan the working man."—"Books of To dlay," by Arthur Pendenys.