Show I I I I I i SCANDAL IN ENGLISH COURTS London has been kept well sati sati- satiated satiated satiated with court co rt scandal for six months Lords Lord colonels and dukes have beep been before the public gaze stripped of ot all pi etense at decency First as the blackmail against Sir lI ji Haril rii nl Singh rajah of and Kashmir in which a oman of f high standing had compromised herself hersel in an effort to extort money L horn hom the man flOm India IThen Then came the suit of Mrs Dorothy Doro Dorothy thy who is seeking to recover She alleges she shelo I lo loaned ned her former husband who ho married the widow of ot Lord Carnarvon Carnarvon von In presenting her claim Mrs Dennistoun has h s her past and confessed to a relationshIp with men that ordinary women would shrink from and would pay all they possessed In dollars to escape It Is difficult to under under- understand understand stand Mrs or any of tho othor principal characters ch In 11 Inthe Inthe Ithe the court scandals They all seem to Invite the proclaiming from the housetops of their duplicities Ramsay Macdonald former pre pro premier mier has denounced the tha growing materialism of society and makes this observation The sort of o stuff which Inch a Inch Is now tilling filling the newspapers makes ou blush and wonder what is coming OHr oer society Cannot we see that It Is a sign of deterioration among those who are not doing decent I work I would be the last man to say that these things are confined to one class of ot society but If it su So Society clety were healthier In Its I for Cor sacrifice and thinking and act acting ing lag honestly fe fewer er of these things would happen The power of ot wealth Is enslaving humanity The former premier that the Intense struggle for tor money low low- lowers ers the moral standards and sets people adrift on a sea with with- without without without out moral chart or compass lint Dut Buthis his view is opposed by Mrs Hal lIal er wife of ot a former Cormer minister of who ho denies there is do- do degeneration de degeneration generation in women She main main- maintains main maintains that all men and women omen de- de delight de delight light in romance and prefer it to a ai discussion of the league of o nations oF the gold standard We We should probably dislike and disapprove of ot these helomes of ro- ro romance ro- ro romance ro romance In lied cd mance she says if they next nett door to to us ua or were mixed mi up I with us in n any wa way but we en enjoy enjoy enjoy joy reading about them They and I their doings supply that element of adventure and that thrill which most of us need and which most of ofus ofus ofus us lack In our dally daily Ih lives es That is a rather candid state state- statement statement ment for a woman in the social set to make and is equivalent to tosa sa saying Ing she has received d a a thrill reading of ot the escapades of men I and women omen who have been paraded In the courts Mrs Fisher risher sa s 5 the into nto the realm of adventure make makeup makeup makeup up the element which most moat of us lack lach In la our daily dally 11 li lives es I IA A plea of that kind Justifies much that has been done against the con If It the mind must have romance of o that Und kind and is to be I fed on the base then offenders hae ae cried only in a acting that which others have thought The sin of Indulging in thoughts whIch ate ale licentious Is only in degree less to be condemned that thai the deed But ut the feature of o it all is that there are women like Mrs willing to openly admit they enjoy th adventure as disclosed In the courts |