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... 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 ...

... Smme BoM.s of Interest. The Novel for a Lazy Day. AS a cure for that moping melancholy feeling and general flatness which so often succeed Christ mas irresponsibility we can heartily recommend The Green Domino (John Lane), by Mr. Anthony Dyllington. Its cheerfulness is absolutely infectious, and before you have dived very far among its pages you are caught. Naturally the course of true ...

... 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 ...

... A Revolution in. Journalism. SometlfomsJ Never Dime Before0 The following was found in The Tatler letterbox, and it is reproduced here for what it is worth. THE management begs to announce the forthcoming publication of a new weekly journal. Every feature in connection with it will be as unique as its price, which will be half-a- guinea. It will supply a long-feltwant, and no one with social ...

... TOILB IN PASSING ioTES, American Acquisitions. THESE headlines from an American daily just to hand are quite in teresting from the English point of view:-- AMERICANS IN THE HUNT FOR PRINCESSES. Mrs. John W. Mackay secures Princess Louise as Her Great Social Lion. Very Difficult to Get. Mrs. Ogden Mills secures the Princess Christian, Who is in Great Demand. Young Americans in Paris. \\I ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE END OF A STORY. AND Mr. Charles Wyndham again marries Miss Mary Moore! This is all that was said by the man behind us; but it was enough to confirm one's own idea that Mr. Wynd ham's recent productions have been too similar. It would not be so bad were he the only actor-manager. In a single theatre among many the public might care to find the gentleman who keeps the ...

... HORS D'CEUVRES. JVar ill Words of One Syllable The Simple Russian The So-called Vomers Hints on Committing Suicide Peaceful War On Business Principles THE Chinese are said to be sorry they invented gunpowder. Yet war with them is simple and straightforward. No wounded, no truces, no hospital scandals (there being no necessity for hospitals), no unseemly wrangling about explosive bullets, white ...

... 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 ...

... OUR CITY ARTICLE. STOCK EXCHANGE SETTLING DAYS Mining Contango Days-- Friday. August 11, and Monday. August 28 General Contango Days-- Monday. August 14. and Tuesday, August 29 Pay Days-- Wednesday. August 16. and Thursday. August 31 Consols -Thursday. August 3 Bank Rate, Two-and-a-half per Cent. Stock Exchange Dulness.-- The Stock Exchange appears to have forgotten the first postulate in ...

... At the Sign of the Times The Happy Season Whether we wish it or no, the opening of the New Year is, as a rule, comparatively happy. For one thing, it represents the period which philosophers have declared to be most conducive to real happiness, that, namely, of recovering from previous pain or depression-- caused in this case by overdoing it in one way and another at Christmas. Most people ...

... T)h ILosft Paimdiiseo FsiSinio For some time the man had seemed to be asleep. He sat back in one corner of the carriage, his eyes closed, the lower lip dropped, his slack fingers nursing in his lap the pipe that he had relinquished. Opposite to him sat his wife, a shrunken woman with tight lips, Hat hair, and an anxious eye. As she watched him and pursued the train of her thoughts she now and ...