25 MARCH 1955, Page 20

Vie 6pettator

ON Wednesday, a young lady apparently about twenty years of age, threw herself into the canal in St. James's Park. She was taken out without much damage, and conveyed in a coach to Sloane Street, where she said her family resided. We must protest against such an exhibition of the horrible in so well- frequented and pleasant a promenade as St. James's Park. It can evidently be made to no possible purpose, hut to frighten the children and the ducks, and to give the unlucky beau who is nearest the spot a pair of wet panta- loons, and, it may be, a cold. If young ladies will drown themselves, let them, have recourse to a piece of water where they can do so quietly and decently.