Lord Rosebery evidently agrees with the old lady—one of the
vieille roche —who complained that "we pampered our germs" far too much. In the highly entertaining speech which he delivered on Tuesday at Glasgow at a sale of work in con- nection with the Scottish Home Industries Association, he summed up a recent controversy by saying that while in the abstract it was wicked and foolish to wear Harris tweed, in the concrete it was about the best thing you -could do. Harris tweed is certainly an excellent wear for the "lonely ploughman," to whose stimulating versatility the Duchess of Sutherland paid a graceful tribute. "I wish," she observed, "he might profit a little from my commercial experience as President of the Scottish Home Industries Association, and that in dealing with the pressure of the age he lmight sink the capital of his isolated indi- viduality in a select company as a, director;—I mean a limited liability director." The Duchess of Sutherland also remarked on the debt whieh the newspapers owed to Lord Rosebely, as an infallible provider of attractive "copy." We should be the last to deny the justice of the impeachment. Just as the. Russian journalist, recently quoted in our columns, devoutly expressed his gratitude, on the death of King Milan, that Mr. Chamberlain was still available for obloquy, so his English colleagues may acknowledge their indebtedness to Lord Rosebery as an unfailing theme for comment or criticism.
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