... COAifjg^vS in ii Paris- Also Ran A YEAR ago our Spring Fashions Number might have dealt with the progress promised in the adornment of woman-- lovely woman. But, to-day, all this is changed. The ladies have had to take a back seat and Paris lags behind Oxford as an arbiter of Fashion. Signs of the Times Lest you should think I exaggerate, let _j me say that in my morning paper I find a ...

... .Racing Ragout By GUARDRAIL EVERYONE in the world of racing and sport has sustained a great loss in the death of Hugo Londesborough. The best of sportsmen, the straightest and kindest of men, he hadn't an enemy and was an example of what a nobleman in every sense of the word should be. And so the good fellows with whom one has raced and shot, ridden a hunt and laughed pass on, leaving ragged ...

... Jhe Jimes we live in VICTORY FOR ALL ALL three-- or is it four?-- political parties have agreed that, like Kipling's winds of the world, the one hundred and seventy nine Socialists who constituted the ...

... L.C.C. ELECTION SKETCHES CLUB COMMENTS By MARMADUKE The Savages of Society is an alluring title; there are readers who may imagine at the outset that it will be difficult to justify the use of it. ...

... bv Valentine Williams TO those acquainted with the real circumstances of Sir William Horwood's resignation, the decision of Sir Wyndham Childs to follow his chief into retirement was something of a fo ...

... jh^Jondon c By HERBERT FARJEON THE TRUTH GAME THE combination of Miss Lily Elsie and Mr. Ivor Novello is, physiogno mically, one of the most powerful combinations that could at present be arranged i ...

... THE HUN MEETS A GENTLEMAN ...

... Racing Notions By CARBINE Bravo, Fairway 1 EVERYTHING was rose-coloured for the prodigious crowd on the Town Moor on St. Leger Day. We revelled in autumnal weather of the finest order and the favourite won the big race! Besides, there were several other well-backed winners, so for once in a way the bookmakers and not the backers wore glum faces at the end of the afternoon. Although I had ...

... 2^ D. B. Wyndham Lewis BUSTLING, matronly figures in trousers, answering rather resentfully (when they answer at all) to the name of Wendy; stout, bald, rather touchy chaps in bowlers answering crossly to the name of Peter-- one has no difficulty in dating these. They belong to the I905 vintage. Doubtless next year will start a new crop of the same kind in Northern Germany, Peter Pan having ...

... AM in 13; foe Game IBs? A. A. B. MR. BALDWIN said that Lord Balfour's friends had been puzzled in their choice of a present for his eightieth birthday, as he seemed to have everything the heart of a man could desire. I do not think their selection was happy. A Rolls-Royce car has come to be regarded as the last cry in osten tatious luxury, the 'hall-mark of the new rich, the brand of the ...

... CITY NOTES. OUR STROLLER IN THROGMORTON STREET. HELLO, young fellow, said the broker cheerily. Just park yourself there for a minute, while I attend to these odds and ends, and then I shall be at your service. Our Stroller seated himself by the side of the telephone, the bell of which im mediately rang shrilly. The broker took up thereceiver. Yes, said he. As it happens, I am rather busy ...

... . BUT so there are already, the broker contro verted; in several cities and towns. I believe they get on quite well, too. Are xney auowea to go into the Stock Exchanges enquired Our Stroller. Oh, no. They 've had several shots, as you may guess. Nothing doing, though. You will have them starting a Stock Exchange of their own, and drawing every woman investor to markets run by their own ...