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MISSILDINE'S PHARMACY “The Hub of the City” Phone 4
Our London Letter
40 Orchard Court,
London.
Jan: 23rd.
Dear Mr Vining,
I feel it is about time that I
had a crack at this mill business!
If only I knew what a mill looked
like, when it didn’t look like a
water mill or a windmill, I should
be better qualified to speak. Still,
speak I shall, and a fat lot you’ll
care! I must say that my first
t feelings when confronted with this
■ suggestion were ones of extreme
distaste. I don’t want a stick or a
stone of Tryon altered—in fact
I should really prefer you all to
starve —but judging from the cor
relgpondance in the Bulletin, a vast
number of you think that a mill
would improve conditions. Perhaps
you’re right, but I. hardly think
it will improve the view. (People
like me, wh 0 have nothing on
earth to worry about always think
about views.) Prosperity is what
you all desire, but poverty is far
more becoming; therefore I, being
safely out of your reach, and no
body caring what rot I talk any
way, nut myself unreserved!v on
the side of the Anti-Mills. Down
with Progress is my slogan from
now on. coi’nled with the w’sh that
»you may all get poorer and poorer
until Tryon is just a picturesque
village with ivy twining round the
doors and cows sleeping in Trade
Street and me looking at the
VIEW! It’s sad to think that no
body’s going to pay the smallest
heed to me, but then it’s sad to
think of Tryon as a house divided,
baring its gentle teeth in rage, so
to speak, and hissing impolitely
at itself.
This letter is supposed to be
about London, but London in
January is dull and di’earv. and
nothing much haopens. Mr de
Valera, the Irish Free State Pre
mier, pa’d us an official visit last
week, with a view to initiating
more friendly relations between the
two countries. In these troubled
times we are anxious to be friends
with anybody, yes, even Ireland,
the bothersome green thing.
The Panay sinking film reached
here not long ago, and we all en
joyed ourselves very much hissing
the Japanese whenever their fun
ny little faces appeared. We now
hiss everybody—Musso, Hitler, and
the Japs, and it is so frightfully
silly, not to say tiring, AND rude.
There have been drastic changes
in the Army organization. Those
dear old generals with waving
white moustaches have gone, and
the younger men have been pro
moted in their stead, causing a
lot of chuff chuffing and damn-bad
form-dontcherknow-what?ing. I ex
pect it is a good thing, though as
far as I can see a soldier is just
a soldier be he eighty five or
forty. They’ve all swallowed ram
rods.
Yours sincerely
Virginia Graham.
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hospital bills, provides income
while you’re laid up.” E. Perry
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