It's a fine breed for such great uses as these.

There was a fine incident in the House of Lords the other day, which gave the lie to the talk that one used to hear here about "degeneracy." Somebody made a perfectly innocent proposal to complete a list of peers and peers' sons who had fallen in the war--a thing that will, of course, be done, just as a similar list will be compiled of the House of Commons, of Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

But one peer after another objected vigorously lest such a list appear immodest.

"We are but doing our duty.

Let the matter rest there." In a time like this the aristocracy proves its worth.