5 DECEMBER 1908, Page 34

A NORTH COUNTRY PROVERB.

(TO TI1N EDITOR OF THE "SPILIMILTOIL."J SIB,—In your notice (Spectator, November 21st) of Mr. Carnegie's "Problems of To-day" you call attention to his remark that "wealth always passes in America from shirt- sleeves to shirt-sleeves in three generations" as "very curious and interesting." Seventy years ago, in Lancashire, when fortunes had been made, and were being made, rapidly in the cotton trade, a parallel saying, common and remarkably pointed, was "Out o' clogs and into clogs is three generations," having reference to the ordinary footgear of the operatives at