Some few days ago Mr. I. J. Pitman, M.P., addressing
some feminine gathering, referred to the fuel crisis, and remarked in no profoundly serious vein that one remedy was for women to wear more petticoats ; he noticed that in his own secretarial colleges as petticoats went up in quantity and length fuel bills went down. This is a field in which Mr. Pitman, I am sure, speaks with more authority than I can ; I should have thought personally that when petticoats went down, not up, the fuel-bills did the same. That, however, is by the way. Mr. Pitman's observations, it appears, were promptly transmitted across the Atlantic (as was only right and proper), with the result that he was rung up the next morning from Chicago by the Teen-Agers' Gazette of that city, and inter- viewed by transatlantic telephone on the burning question he had ventilated, particularly on the practice of Mrs. Pitman in these matters. Such are the topics that rock two continents.
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