... By LESLIE T. BAMNAMO THE stout man with the florid face relapsed into the park seat and mopped his forehead with a huge handkerchief. not, isn t it ne said to tne otner occupant ot the seat. Hot The young man gave a smile that had no mirth, that twisted his mouth, but left his sombre eyes unchanged. You call this hot I guess you've never been abroad any where near the Lukala Kula Islands Now ...

... By JOHN COLLIER DOCTOR, said Major Sinclair, most certainly we must have you with us for Christmas. He shall be back, said Mrs. Carpenter. I promise you. It 's by no means certain, said Dr. Carpenter. I should love it, of course. After all, said Mr. Hewitt, these lectures are only for three months. Anything may happen, said Dr. Carpenter. Yes. It is quite true, said Mrs. Bates. ...

... THE young man had just proposed to the most beau tiful girl in the world. She had accepted him, and so now he stepped into a fashionable jewellery store to buy an engagement ring. He examined various rings, and finally picked up a beautiful diamond affair that suited his fancy. What 's the price of this he inquired. That, replied the assistant, is ^350. The young man's eyes popped. He ...

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... The following is a personal experience that occurred during the War. It was Christmas morning, in the year 1915, in a large Military Hospital, where I was nursing. Everyone was extra busy and a general air of Christmas bustle pervaded everywhere. Finishing touches were being put to the decorations, and all those who could do so were lending a hand with a hearty good will; and all seemed to ...

... THERE was once an absent-minded Sunday school teacher with whom the boys of his class liked to have fun. One day, when the boys knew their teacher was to read a certain passage from the Bible, they pasted together the connecting pages. The teacher came into the room and began to read. When he got to the bottom of the page he read When Noah was 120 years old he took unto himself a wife who was ...

... By RICHARD KING AUNT AGATHA lay quite happily in bed-- alone. Beside her, on what was euphemistically called a what-not, lay her mother's Bible and a bottle of health salts. It was Christmas morning. She had given orders the evening before that the domestic routine was to begin an hour later. Consequently, Aunt Agatha had awakened two hours before her usual wont and badly wanted to get up. But ...

... inn I I By HOLLO WAY HOMN THE brand new Rolls-Royce came silkily to rest outside the Malayan Club in Bildao. Madame Salvan alighted and went up the steps to the veranda, where she sat down at one of the little tables, lit a cigarette and waited. In her spectacular way, she was beautiful. Her hair had the sheen of ebony, and nature had pencilled her dark eye-brows perfectly. Her clothes ...

... j By BARBARA HED WORTH The telephone rang just as Althea was putting on her stockings. She called to Gina, her maid, who was getting out undies: Answer that, Gina. If it's Mr. Blye, say I'm out; you don't know what time I'll be back. Be as vague as you can, there's a dear. Her slanting hazel eyes were quietly triumphant, her lips bitter in their smile, while she sat on the edge of the bed ...

... BUBBLE and SQUEAK MOTHER was bathing the baby, and discovered that she had forgotten to put out the infant's nightgown. Her small son was an interested spectator of the ablutionary process. Billy, said mother, just run upstairs and bring me baby's nightgown. I can't be bothered, replied Billy. Oh, Billy, that is unkind of vou. If you 're not kind to your little sister she '11 put on her ...

... As an example of the fulfilment of a dream the following story may be of interest. The experience happened to a member of my family, Lady Andover, the wife of Admiral Sir Henry Digby, one of Nelson's captains. He himself had had an experience of the supernatural, and in a former issue of The TATLER I gave the story of how, through the intervention of an unseen presence from the spirit world he ...