... WI$]hmt 3R,egeiPV0o IBsiiPipy Faliao He was, perhaps, fifty years of age. His dress was rusty and seedy but academical. The shrewd wind ballooned his gown, evidential of the degree of Master of Arts, impressive to the villagers. His face bore signs of occasional starvation, occasional inebriety, and long-past refinement. He stood on the outskirts of the market place with a table before him and ...

... His Lordship's C h axiff e ur InL TwyfcrdL They were sitting in two deck chairs hidden away among the palms and flowers on the roof of the houseboat, Sunshine. A silver moon topping the pine-clad hills above Wargrave turned the silent river to molten silver. The hush of the exquisite July night was broken only by a rich baritone voice singing a southern love song to a banjo accom paniment on ...

... First Prize of One Guinea. Tommy's Cruel Joke The other evening Miss Passee stayed to dinner and Tommy as a great favour was allowed to have dinner with the company. Growing restless at dessert he was sent out of the room, but in a few seconds he returned with a little Dresden clock from the sitting-room mantelpiece. Gracious, child, exclaimed the mother, what mischief are you up to now Goin' ...

... Glsiclyg s aim My IE of FarlRo By Bss-iriry P^Ssho The small girl was dressed principally in a skirt that was an extremely bad adaptation from an original formerly in the collection of her mother. She was shrunken, shrewd, and smeary. She sat on the grass, and with one grimy paw imparted to a peram bulator that gentle motion backwards and forwards which is supposed to soothe the interned ...

... flie Brdiin Tie The humours of diplomacy and foreign policy are many and subtle, and have grown more complicated since the newspapers and the public generally began to take a hand in international relations. In the old days when the world was really governed by ''sovereigns and statesmen, as it is now when the people do not pay attention, a nation might be on the verge of war, or occasionally ...

... TIbe ILmccI&y Wommainio By Falsa,, When they were respectively of the ages of eighteen and nineteen it became necessary for the two Miss Venners to do some thing for themselves. They were orphans, and they divided between them a fortune of £50 a year. The elder and plainer of the two, Ellen Venner, took her own strong line at once. She married a Dissenting minister and made for herself a ...

... First Prize of One Guinea. Fishy Mother (looking at Johnny reproachfully) Where have you been this afternoon, Johnny Johnny (uneasily) Sunday school. Mother Then how is it you smell of fish and are so wet Johnny (desperately) Teacher told us the story of Jonah and the whale. Thomas Phillips, 3, Baker Street, Handsworth, Birmingham. THE CHESTNUT TREE. The Editor of The Tatler offers One ...

... Tlhie UinievemitlfuEll ILnfo B^ FsiSinio He was an innocuous little man married to an innocuous little wife. They had a harmless home in Putney, and during the day he was regularly employed by a City firm which was in no way deleterious. He was one of those men to whom nothing ever happens. This was unfortunate, for he was by nature talkative and liked particularly to talk of what had happened ...

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... First Prize of One Guinea, Babbits to Follow Two country cousins arrived hungry front their native heath and entered a London eating-house where an attractive notice, Welsh Rabbits, 4d met their eyes and made their mouths Water. After due deliberation they resolved to spend the 8d., and they waited expectantly for the result. When a waiter hurried in with the savoury morsels they were dumb ...

... Eo Almaas That sounds curious advice, said Dick dubiously. If you want to keep a woman devoted to you --bully her. Of course, I mean if you are married, said Uncle George, settling himself further back in his arm chair. But you must bully Iter in the right way. I naturally don't mean beat her or knock her about, though evidently in some ranks of society even that method is commendable, ...

... Tlhi Tfedrdl Fersoinio B^ Faimo Gladys and he had come to a secret understanding at an overheated, but economical, subscription dance the night before. It was a little doubtful how her people would take it. They did not know him though they knew of him. She was to meet him in Regent's Park that afternoon, being Saturday, at two sharp. Wherefore he had taken unto himself a pair of new brown ...