Women & Rubbish

In London the Royal Commission on Civil Service sat pompously on the question of Englishwomen who, by keeping their nuptials secret, circumvent the law requiring them to resign as Civil Servants when they marry.

Ingenious methods were proposed for detecting delinquents, punishments were pondered. Dinnertime neared but Baron Tomlin of Ash, Chairman of the Commission, reserved his opinion, conducted the debate on the highest plane of British parliamentary procedure.

Came suddenly an abrupt, spontaneous general eagerness to know the Chairman's notions. He hesitated, nerved himself, unbent from his official role. "If you want my personal view," said Lord Tomlia carefully, "I think that, for all we know, they are all married. Rubbish to try to catch women at a thing like that!"

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