... Performance Or Comfort? A FLEA, according to a famous essay by one of those distinguished scientific workers who put us all in our places, a flea, if scaled up to the size of an elephant, could never have its jumping power scaled up in proportion. Motorists are inclined to want the performance and manoeuvring power of the smallest vehicle with the capacity and comfort of the largest. When ...

... 2^ D. It. Wyndham Lewis GIRLS keen on deep-sea diving are discussing with animation (our spies report) the news that a forthcoming Italian scientific expedi tion to study the flora and fauna of the Red Sea bed will include one of their number, an experienced diver and, as it happens, a married lady. The possibility that a bachelor girl diver may meet Mr. Right at afiything from ten to thirty ...

... A VERA EONG LINE FOR MR. COWARD Youngman Carter MR. NOEL COWARD, ever a student of fashion, has retired to Jamaica to complete Part II. of his autobiography to be called Future Indefinite, and to memorise the very long lines of his role in the revival of The Apple Cart. As King Magnus he will have one speech that goes on for nearly half-an-hour, which is probably a record for the contemporary ...

... D. 11. Wyndham Lewis IT is indeed a considerable time (as a reminiscent film-boy was remarking) since Dame Shirley Temple saved the North-West Frontier of India for the British Raj. The Dame was then still in short frocks, we remember dimly, with crisp golden curls and a smile in her frank, merry blue eyes which made the naughtiest Afghan falter and think of his Mom. She arrived in India too ...

... DINING 0 U T I. BICRERSTAFF One has read more than once of the paterfamilias of ampler days saying pompously to his son and heir: Always choose your wine merchant, my boy, with as much care as you choose your medical adviser. S Ampler days, but the advice is still good. Especially so when wartime shortages attracted so many get-rich-quickers into the S retail wine trade. The other day I was ...

... THE YOUNG ENTR Y SHOWS PROMISE HINTING NOTES Holiday meets of the Lincolnshire packs proved as popular as ever, and in glorious weather exceptionally large crowds attended the traditional trysts. The same can be said of the Hunt pony club fixtures, an equally attractive feature of the countryside. At these holiday meets the mounted field mainly consisted of young foxhunters, who have shown ...

... t a 1>. It. Wjlidham Lewis Giving the girls reasonable time to get their hair done and their stockings up, Auntie Times has thoughtfully announced, six months in advance, that the Liberal Summer School will be held next August, at Oxford. Thus glamour rules to-day as in the 1880's, when Oscar Wilde revealed that all-too-brief glimpse of a typical Liberal Summer School as Giorgione painted it. ...

... Oliver Stewart Magic wand motoring has arrived. By paying a little more when the car's tanks are filled you will be able to call down incanta tions to improve the hill-climbing, acceleration, starting and consumption. Eminent drivers swear that their cars run better on the premium fuels and, if they feel that they run better, why they do run better, for that's the truth if you think it is. Yet ...

... 2^ D. B. Windham Lewis FEW spectacles (talking of gypsies) could provide less excitement than the old Romany rite of destroying a deceased gypsy queen's caravan by fire, which event the Fleet Street boys did their best to work up into a romantic story the other day. The arch-liar Borrow is to blame, no doubt, for what shreds of glamour still surround the Romany chal in this country. Four ...

... I>. B. Wyndliam Lewis ALTHOUGH the Angels of Mons did not sting the soldiery, they may be said to belong to the same military folklore-group as the Wild Bees of Tanga, of whom a sardonic chap was reminding Auntie Times recently. Contrary to the Race's fixed belief, these bees were not trained by Von Lettow-Vorbeck's experts, using tripwires, to attack our troops in flank at the battle of Tanga ...

... R. C. Robertson-Glasgow NEXT Saturday is the day of St. Valentine, patron Saint of shy lovers. So, resisting an imperious urge to tell you about the racing over the sticks at bonny Manchester and to forecast the winner of the Senior Schoolgirls' Fencing Championship, I am sending out a few Open Valentines. So, you can either look over my shoulder or lose some money at Kempton Park. C'est égal, ...

... THE lessees of the Hippodrome and the Coliseum had best look to their laurels. At the Irving Theatre, on a stage the size of a pocket handkerchief, there is a play in fifteen scenes with twenty-one characters, complete with song and dance, a high moral tone and the most despicable villain now at large m the Metropolis. Patrons who take exception to his black deeds may hiss, boo and pelt this ...