... Tjhe Bee in. the B eh in ft AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gersvldl B MY DEAR TATLER-- Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the street of Berkeley, that the other day I had the now rare adventure of being upon the road in an automobile! I felt so guilty, but looked as though butter wouldn't melt in my cylinders, though it was all fair and above board, the petrol fully licensed and the car one of ...

... TBe Bee in the Bonnet AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Qeirald Blss. MY DEAR TATLER, From the civilian's point of view the giddy Gothas must be regarded as one of the episodic frightfulnesses of the war, and must be taken nightly after going to bed with an extra pint of philo sophy, .which in cases of weaker brethren, like St. Timothy of old, may be assisted by the addition of something more actively ...

... THe Be in the Bonimet AH AUTO-CAUSER.EE. By Getrald Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, With the Hunter chasing chaste Diana nightly, to the vast encouragement of Hunnish malpractices, it behoves me as far as I can see to antedate my letters to you at such seasons, even more than ordinarily necessary, as Zodiacal Zepps and giddy Gothas, when they turn up, play such Hades with our postal arrange ments, to my ...

... TBe Bee in. the Bonnet AN AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Geiraldl Bis. MY DEAR TATLER, By the time this reaches the print stage upon your best war-time art paper at heaven-only-knows-what a pound the untimely Hun ter's Hunny-moon will be drawing to a discreet close, and Diana will be burying her unblushing face in delightful dark ness, for which relief many thanks. Some bard once won fame with a trite ...

... Tine Bee in the Bonnet AN AUTO-CAUS1EK.EE. By Gerald! Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, I saw the other day that a bold, bad antiquarian, a connoisseur in antiques, was fined for the grave offence of keeping a pair of anachro nistic carriage horses and feeding the same on real live oats. I was pained and surprised that this old-fashioned evildoer did not come in for his share of proper revilement from ...

... Tlhe Bee in the Boniniet AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gerald Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, Things are indeed coming to a pretty pass, as the Victorians used to say, when acquisitive Sir Alfred Tout-le-Mond cannot keep his itching claws off the British Museum, and actually proposes to turn the dear old Mummeries into the latest neo-martial Minx-ery in order to celebrate the birth of the Air Board after much ...

... THE BEE IN THE BONNET-- cont. of itself a vote of censure upon the existing bodies and may cause them to awake to a sense of their responsibilities in these highly subversive times and this projected Motorists' Protection Associa tion will, I fancy, be eyed a bit askance, for in stance, at the shrine in Hedge Lane, Charing Cross, whence we may hear wild cries in the night of poaching and black ...

... Tlhe Bee isa the Bonimet AN AUTO-CAUSERSEo By Qeraldl Bass. My dear tatler,-- This is indeed a most nerve racking Government (or what ever you may prefer to call it from the poor, wretched stylo- slogger's point of view, and the only thing that is certain is its un certainty. Nothing stands long enough for the ink to get pro perly dry, and, difficult as this is in daily journalism, it is ...

... The Bee In the Bonnet AN AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gerald Bass. MY DEAR TATLER, What delightful weather we are having No one can really say that life is dull, can they? Now, on top of no meat, no margarine, no butter, no tea, no beer, no whisky, and no caviare not even for generals in our local town, after having been comfortably snowed-in in our family dug-outs, we are flooded all down the one main ...

... Tjhe Bee in the Bonnet AM AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gerald! Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, Galling as it is to all nobility of sentiment and aesthetic conception, it is being borne in upon me more and more daily what a belly-ridden nation we are, though perhaps no worse than any other, to be fair to ourselves in fact, that King Tum-tum is the World's Controller. Only yesterday I was talking to a friend holding ...

... Tine Bee in the Bonnet AN AUTO-CAUSERIE. By Gerald Biss. MY DEAR TATLER, That gay privateer, Tout-le- Mond, baulked of the British Museum, has swooped down on Kingsway and swallowed a substantial ration off its west side for the accommodation of the new Air Board, which is said to be swelling wisibly, almost incredibly so, with the development of the new aerial pro gramme, which makes one ...

... 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 ...