Undertakers may be the heartiest of men personally, and no
doubt often are, but as a class there is something sombre about them. And naturally enough. • Their task; necessary as it is, is not one on which most of us desire particularly to dwell. However that may be, it is interesting to note that a Bill providing for the State Registration of Undertakers is to be introduced into Parliament, with the support of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. I see Lord Homier referred to members of the craft as " funeral directors." In America they are universally, and here increasingly, known as " morticians." I fancy I still have somewhere the pros- peCtils of a vacation-school for morticians at the Univer- sity of Minnesota. The curriculum included study of woods and soils, and also lectures in psychology, with special concentration on the demeanour of sympathy. •
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