Foreign News: The Fair Ladies

Sir, as one who has reached the respectable state of a grandfather and who therefore is supposed by some not to take any notice of or interest in such things, I approach you with diffidence. I have, Sir, however, of recent months received the impression that a remarkable transformation has overtaken our womanhood, both young and not so young. To my eyes, watching them going about their daily tasks, they appear to have flowered in an extraordinary fashion . . .

So Grandfather Patrick Graham memorialized the London Times last summer. Ever since, passing...