... ARE WE UPROOTED NO BRITISH PHLEGM Drawn by G. L. Stampa. ...

... A MAN may be legally attached to one woman and yet sincerely attached to another. T t is sometimes more important to get credit from a good tailor than to get credit for a good deed. XAJ e find that we are not alone in think ing that it is dreadfully difficult to have a really good time with really good people. Just at the present time no one whose signature ends in heim or stein can be said ...

... D; 'Profiteering j By FITZWILLIAM h^. D EVERY period has its scapegoats; in the days of Titus Oates it was the Plot; in 1820 the waltz was to blame; to-day the profiteer lies at the root of all evil, and whoever seems to make a living is suspect. At every dinner table the owner of a rolling mill is reviled equally with the newsagent who makes a charge for delivering the morning paper every ...

... i By JINGLE. THE gentleman in the box office seemed mildly amused at the extravagant idea that he could have any seats to bestow upon the mere Press in view of the very obvious success of this Song Show. So I broke the news as gently as I could to Harris and led the lad into the dreary shallows of the pit. He choked down a sob as he heard the fatal words from the pay box standing room only, ...

... . The New Cabinet. BY the time these lines are read we shall know more about the new Cabinet. Bonar Law, Chamberlain, Barnes, Balfour, Curzon, Churchill, and Geddes are, of course, certainties, but this leaves a wide margin for the introduction of new blood. The present House consists of a lot of new men, some of whom have distinguished themselves in their pre-parliamentary career, and who are ...

... (Regd.) (Regd.) W eatherproof s 9 44 REWARD of MERIT OFFICERS from the front testify that is the one Weatherproof that affords ample protection in any weather. OBTAINABLE of OUTFITTERS in EVERY TOWN ...

... Pictorial Politics, The Retreat. THE explanation the German authorities gave to their own people, that their' re treat on the An ere is a volun tary shortening of the line with a view to a concentration of troops elsewhere, will not hold water on examination of the map. The bulge that the Eng lish advance has made in the line since the commencement of the offensive on July 1 last year has ...

... Pictorial Politics. The Election. A FEW days from now the result of the great election will be known, which should assuredly mean that Mr. Lloyd George will be returned to carry on in peace, with an overwhelming, or rather suffi cient, majority the great work of re construction he has planned in his speeches. The country welcomed with acclaim the five points that Mr. Lloyd George issued last ...

... PICTORIAL, POLITICS. An Impressive Memorial. THE King's suggestion as to the best way the nation could celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice was a wonderful in spiration which emanated fitly from our ruling house. For two minutes yesterday there was a complete cessation of work, sound, and locomotion, and no one who was in this busy metropolis will forget the impressiveness ...

... Pictorial Politics. The New Year. THE bad old year and the bad old war are over, and though one faces the New Year with confidence and optimism, it would be foolish to underrate the difficulties, if not dangers, which are bound to arise during this all important crisis. First of all there are the difficulties and anxieties of the Peace Conference, though as to that we believe that the Allies, ...

... Near Ivangorod BY THE BYSTANDER IN POLAND i WHILE a thousand guns are thun dering near Warsaw, I write this in peace ful Novo-Alexandriya, near Ivangorod Fortress. I came here not to avoid Warsaw's thundering guns, but its thunder ing lies. Warsaw is full of citizens who buttonhole you with Have you heard the latest? and after this invariably comes the alarmist whopper that Hindenburg has ...

... Pictorial Polities* Raids, Useful And Otherwise. THE citizens of London have again shared with the boys abroad the honour of coming into the actual battle line in this world war for freedom. The German authorities realise, of course, that no military benefit is gained by these air raids on the metropolis. Their psychology is so infantile that they may possibly imagine that the effect upon the ...