... Tine Bee im 43h@ Boiniinxeft AN AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gerald Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, Somehow all the old Yule log and mistletoe business seems like a Y'ankee revue and even more unreal than it did last Christmas, and peace on earth has been knocked out to a million to one (no takers). So, when I offer you the hollow compliments of the season, we, who God wot are no dull dogs given half a chance, can ...

... MY DEAR TATLER,-- America is on such a big scale that she apparently finds a bit of room even in the midst of her gigantic war preparations for a slice of business as usual, and already, as we have seen, owing to railroad congestion and shortage of tonnage, war exports are outrunning the constable, and have had to be steadied by a judicious application of the brake. Hence the New York ...

... No. 4.- -Edited by J. M. B. Dear C., There's such a lot of things save din. and dine, and drama when one is out of leading strings in London's panorama. I love to watch the streets at night when everything's electric, and won't believe that mother's right to scout my taste as hectic. The country with its dreary drabs is rather wishy-washy, I'd rather ride in hansom cabs even when the streets ...

... No. 2. Edited by J. M. B. Dear V., This year I mean to write a little letter every night. You're wrong I'm not coquetty. I've never seen him in our sets, I only know his name is Letts. That's why I'm doubly Letty. I'll love to tell him all I do and I'll be franker than with you, with whom I only coast it. I'll tell him all the things I know he'll never give away the show, because I'll never ...

... The clergyman of a country parish church was proceeding to proclaim the banns of marriage when he found he had forgotten the names of the couple and was unable to find the certificate. After repeating the first sentence, I publish the banns of marriage between several times the clerk, who was seated just under the reading desk, bawled out, Between the cushion and the seat, s 1 r N. Z. Warner, ...

... He was a young man a candidate for an agricultural constituency and he was sketching in glowing colours to an audience of rural voters the happy life the labourer would lead under an administration for the propagation of sweetness and light. We have not yet three acres and a cow, but it will come. Old-age pensions are still of the future, but they will come. Similarly every item of his compre ...

... A farmer of Duddingstone was standing at his gate. An Irish lad came up to him and requested to be employed. Go away, sir, said the farmer I will never employ any of your country again. Why asked the Irishman. Sure we are good workers. God bless you, do give me a job. No, sir, I won't, for the last Irishman I employed died on my hands and I was forced to bury him at my own expense. ...

... London is a flurry of girls in the summer. They scan the heavy dailies, are continually pestered by their mothers who ask, Where will you live? To be with it they must have a flat in the right areas. Ten years ago one would probably spend the first six months or a year in a rather depressing bed-sitting room. Today it is relatively easy to find, through a number of organisations, the ...

... I was amused to read the other day that there is little place for sentiment these days in the theatre. Frankly, now that the kitchen-sink vogue has gone, I feel that there is more demand for sentimental music than ever before. You only have to look at the cur rent success of Robert and Elizabeth and The Sound of Music to see proof. At the moment I am working on You're Young, a new version of ...

... London Life is the perfect magazine at last! Factual, in timate, interesting and up to date. But I think that the Editor could choose better- tempered letters. It is time everyone stopped expecting everything to happen as scheduled. If it did, we would be livine in a Fascist Statp Gillian Hoee. Hamilton Terrace, NW8 ...

... Dear tatler, i suppose you will be taking the road to Twickenham again next Saturday, even if only to give the boys in green a hearty wel come. Perhaps we shall see them win, perhaps not, but if they do notch their third victory at Twickenham it will be enthusiastically cheered. It is worth while recalling that Ireland's record at headquarters is far better than that of Wales or Scotland, for ...

... A word of warning for those who are contemplating a vintage port for Christmas. A vintage port should not be disturbed for some weeks be fore drinking because of the sediment which settles at the bottom of the bottle. The prob lem can be obviated if the port is decanted into a new bottle at the time of purchase. By doing this, it can be drunk immediately without impair ing the quality. ...