No doubt a detailed description of this whirling and dashing life would be of interest to us slow, deliberate creatures.  But I can give only a passing glimpse.

JOURNALISM.

Things happen in such quick succession that the news is hustled out at all hours of the day and night; not on sheets of paper, but through automatic news-receivers, machines somewhat akin to our telegraph instruments.

The state supplies each home with an automatic news-receiver.  Thus a record is kept in each home of all messages received so that they can be read at leisure.  To speak in a manner more easily understood, I will say that the news is telegraphed to each home as soon as possible after the events transpire.  But compared to our customs, the news is very scarce.  There being no competition, no time or space is required for sensational trash.  Thus, if nothing of importance occurs, nothing need be transmitted.  The official news-censors decide as to the relative importance of occurrences.  There need not be a certain amount of news telegraphed each hour.  The government verifies, as much as possible, all reports before they are transmitted.  There are indeed some advantages in the government being in constant touch with each home under its care.  The advertising department pays nearly all expenses of this whole system of journalism.  Announcements for private gain are paid at a regular rate.  It costs more to advertise at certain periods than at other times, all regulated by the customs of the people.

Under these regulations everybody receives the news, and only the essential news, except advertisements which must come in batches at certain intervals.  Of course, people take their choice as to reading advertisements.

[Illustration:  Sunrise Signal in Brief.]

THEIR FOOTWEAR.

The soles of the feet of these Briefites are composed of a substance most nearly resembling hoof material.  They never think of covering the feet under any change of climate.  If one of the Briefites were to step upon the shores of our rugged Earth and see the cotton or wool and leather that lies around our feet, it would appear to him as the most ridiculous thing imaginable, and no doubt his shapely feet of ivory cast would be of more than passing interest to us.

THEIR RAIMENT.

Their raiment is altogether after new models.  Neither the men, women, nor children seem to seek this means for self-beautifying.  They seem to think that beauty of character has a radiance more to be desired than the flash of opals or the luster of silks.  Their garments partake of the loose flowing order.  For instance, a strong fabric of chosen shade is fastened at the neck, hip, knee and ankle, and lies carelessly over the parts between.  The females never graduated to the corset degree, and while they do not cut a scientific figure, yet they surely develop a more ruddy waist after the model intended by the Designor of the body.