Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-04-11 | Page 2 | Frowned on Innovation

Frowned on Innovation. Montrose, Scotland, is to be an aviation avia-tion station, and the appearance of flying machines there is enough, ac- ; cording to the London Chronicle, to bring some of the good old ladies of ' that town out of their graves. It was one of them, as Dean Ramsay records, j who protested against steam vessels, : as counteracting the decrees of provi- ' dence in going against wind and tide, j "I would hae naething to say ta thae impious vessels," she insisted. An-other An-other was equally shocked by the in- i troduction of gas in place of oil, de- manding: "What's to become o' the puir whales?" ,. I