" YO - YO "
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—It is all very well for your contributor to poke fun at the " Little Palaces of Golder's Green," but is he aware that the Best People live there? I have before me an advertisement relating to these Little Palaces " ; it reads : Our Policy is to get the Best People.
Our minimum deposit of £50 ensures this.
This concise statement not only proves that the Best People live here, but shows who are the Best People.
I have no wish to sail under false colours. I am not defend- ing my own class. I am no class. The builders would look in vain for my fifty pounds, and in consequence the " Little Palaces " are not for me, but I cannot let pass without vigorous protest any statement that brings discredit on the Best People. Without them the Popular Press, Picture Palaces, Walls' Ice Cream, Corner Houses, and Yo-Yo, would cease to exist, and it is very probable that civilization would never survive such a blow to its culture.—I am, Sir, &c., [Miss Struther writes : I am grateful to Mr. Willis for giving me further information about the " Little Palaces " at Golders Green. The simple and touching faith of the man who drafted that advertisement reminds me, somehow, of a hard-up young man I know who, having experimented (against my advice) with a very cheap tailor, stood ruefully surveying in the looking glass the rather distressing result, and finally said in a tone of pathetic bewilderment : " But I told them to cut it well. . . ." In any case, what he tells me only confirms my suspicion that I, too, am doomed to end my days without entering the ranks of the Best People (is there such a thing as £50 ?), and shall remain a " rackety Bohemian " to the last.)
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