... THE LAW PROTECTS THE HUSBAND FROM THE EXTRA VAGANCE OF HIS WIFE Law OF THE LAND Scene A fashionable milliner's establishment in Bond Street. A lady wearing sables which must have cost at least five hundred guineas, steps out of a carriage and pair, the door of which is opened by a liveried footman, and is ushered into the emporium. SHOP ASSISTANT (coming forward): What can I have the pleasure ...

... A MATTEK OF BUSINESS BY REGINALD RAYNER THE greatest happiness is often found in the sudden enjoyment of an unanticipated blessing. With this truth in view, it is not to be wondered at if Bill Letchworth was experiencing a somewhat exaggerated fit of self-satisfaction. Certainly, had you told him two years before the particular May morning with which we are concerned that, in a short time, he ...

... *r By MADELINE MACRAE Gerald Fane returned to the breakfast-room, where his guests were still seated. He looked grave, and apologised for his absence, explaining that the village constable had come up to see him about something. Poor Mr. Fane, laughed Miss Manners. No wonder you look worried. What's that asked Phillip Ludney, from the sideboard. The police after Fane Nevermind, old chap, ...

... Points off View By FREDERICK FENN You knew the little Beauchamp woman, didn't you? said Lady Charlwood, pouring out tea. Slightly, said Grimwood. I see she's gone off at last. Runaway? Yes, with that poor young Mortimer. I wondered how soon it would come and who it would be. Young scoundrel. You wouldn't say so if you really knew, said Lady Charlwood. She was born to run away and ...

... The Voice of the Sultan Bystander Short Story Max Murray JUST as one man is proud of his wife and another of his medlar-tree, so Alfred Horsborough was proud of his English accent. He was convinced that an educated Englishman spoke English, and that the rest of the English-speaking world muddled along with its various dialects. Fifteen years' residence in the United States had done nothing ...

... Her All for Him: JIN ALL THRILL TALE FULL OF THROBS By FRANK ELIAS [If you have not read earlier instalments of this charming story, that is your fault, not ours, isn't it SUMMARY THE DUKE OF SWISS COTTAGE, O.B.E. has for years been indulging secretly in his passion for ha'penny nap, until at last there are three bills of sale out on the same furniture. He has even had to part with the ...

... mma I ^^i,, i pj ______ i n i i 1 i i mi. iiiuiiinimiiimn 111111)111111)111111111 IM III I ^fWTlin^iTWIT PlIHIlllllllI WOMEN AND WAR No. III. J BY EFEMERA I ■mnnnmnDinnia i/iiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiivni 1 liiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiii ramnf WHAT SHALL I DO New and Untried Nothing brings out the spirit of helpfulness so much as a national crisis, particularly a war. Everybody wants to do something, usually ...

... 3\Iissing ^Believed ]\illed^d By GUY LYSLE JACK MASTERLEY had been at home again for three days, and had spent nearly the whole of that time in the War Office. Surely no callow subaltern can have ever before received such polite and pressing attentions from distinguished Staff Officers. But Jack had a story to tell. After some months in the trenches he and h:s men had I been swooped down on by ...

... KpOght HawJ{sj BY 'NYONI'SUKU THE harsh clang of an electric gong beat into his head, and before the echo had died he was out of bed and stuffing himself into his clothes. He did this mechanically, his mind entirely bent on finding itself and ordering his senses, in a tenth of the time Nature requires for the purpose-- only niggers and people in books are ever deep in slumber one moment and ...

... By LEONARD MERRICK The financier was cracking walnuts when the curate arrived. Hallo, boy! he said. Why didn't you come to dinner? How do you do, Uncle Murray Oh, it was impossible to come in time for dinner. I had a meeting at six o'clock and it's a long way from Plaistow to Park Lane. Are you quite well? Pretty fit, said Murray Pybus. Glad to see you again. I was going to drop you a ...

... What are you studying, old man? Economics. What the blazes is the use of studying that? If it's forced on you, you've got to practise it! *)r ■ir We understand that the Witching Hour is the one when your wife greets you with Which lie is it this time? v Porter: Did you miss your train, sir? Passenger: No. I didn't like the look of it, so I chased it out of the station.' How's your ...

... I THE PRICE OF F FAME -ii i By I Muriel Htne J FH WHEN Pandora Bigge had completed her new novel she decided to give it the title of Any. it was the tashion in those times to clotne nction with a loose, misleading, and figurative name. It piqued the jaded appetite of the reading public, weary of the definitely outlined love-affair of the latest Elizabeth and those turgid problems of domestic ...