23 DECEMBER 1955, Page 19

U-SENSE v. COMMON SENSE •

SIR,—The high standard of ignorance within English aristocratic circles is proverbial out- side them, so it is not surprising that the adult elite should insist on pouring milk into tea, in spite of the fact that to blend liquids of

different temperatures it is necessary to pour the hot into the cold.

To bash in the skull of an egg instead of decapitating it cleanly also strikes outsiders as a queer proof of breeding. Human beings are very odd.—Yours faithfully,

DOROTHY M. MCINTYRE

Mallards, Winsley, Wilts