UNIVERSAL education, broadcasting, the cinema, the motor-bus, and other cheap moans of transit-all these are tending to abolish purely local characteristics and to induce uniformity. In Worcestershire, chiefly in the rural parts, some old customs are still, or have been till very recently, practised, old sayings are in use, and folk-lore is remembered. The speaker, Mrs. M. M. PRIESTLEY (Editor of The Woman's Leader), will endeavour to give some of the more interesting of this material;