21 APRIL 1950, Page 5

One thing that perpetually perplexes me in the daily Press

is the almost universal conviction that the birth of a baby in a public conveyance is an abnormal event requiring to be specially chronicled. This, I respectfully submit, is nonsense. Babies are constantly being born all over the place, and always were. In my youth they were born in four-wheelers and hansoms and horse-buses ; today they are born in taxis and motor-buses and ambulances and trains. Babies are imperious creatures, and when they decide to be born they get on with it regardless of circumstances. Surely that can be taken as a familiar fact, about which no paper has any call to be excited. * *