... riences, of passing the eve of this present year of grace in carving roast heef and ladling out baked potatoes in a thieves kitchen in the wilds of Shoreditch to a gang of habitual criminals, one of whom had the candour to inform me that but for the regis ...

... Well, replied the labourer, I'll tell you how it was, sir. You see my master has an almanac by a fellow named Murphy in the kitchen, and looking at it this morning I saw that he had put down the weather for to day as bright and fine. But he is such a con- ...

... are saying. In the kind of warfare now being waged sweeping could only be done by such hosts as even the genius of Lord Kitchener has been unable to conjure up. As it is, with that gradual advance which we all suppose to be on the tapis, the losses we ...

... should be favoured with some of the new drill. The old stuff form fours, form two-deep, form squad we have had ad nauseum. Kitchener's chaps get variety. There is, for instance, one lively evolution I have watched with envy. It goes roughly thus, the men ...

... nurses nearly everywhere, though, contrary to general opinion, only Army nurses are nursing British wounded abroad, by Lord Kitchener's special orders. 'ghe rest have to work under the Red Cross, under I whose banner, of course, are also enrolled the amateurs ...

... tL Jp) J^O^G Thrift. NO citizen of this great Empire whose fortunes are now in the melting pot will question Lord Kitchener's statement that the soldiers and sailors who are fighting on their and its behalf must not be stinted in any way. We are sure ...

... have to grin and put up with it. 'ghe betting on the end of the war, by the way, seems now to be that it'll finish when Kitchener said it would three years to the minute. Personally I'm not taking on even the most alluring odds on the subject. Too risky; ...

... or what those decisions were. Mr. Asquith nr-tpH without inciuirv. Mr. Churchill talked, Lord Fisher sulked, while Lord Kitchener was so busy gathering all the administrations of the War Office into his own hands that little- military opinion reached ...

... be a sleepy sermon either. The little book is purely practical, and it teaches us how to save, how to prevent waste in the kitchen, how to shop, what to do with old paper and string, corks, clothing, and old bottles. And I am not quite sure that a knowledge ...

... discuss very frankly the position of kings and courts in general. ^Phe Queen goes down to Westminster and opens a public food kitchen this week. But H.M., as we all know, inherits from her delightful mother a keen interest in matters social. In fact, this ...

... from job to job. Not two years ago he was a mere civilian, tho' even then a great man on railways, I believe. Then Lord Kitchener bagged him to binge up munitions. Then he did over from top to toe our army transport here, in France, and everywhere, and ...

... and a duration. Apropos, stirred up all the old stories, his sister, Mrs. Parker's public confession about being sure Lord Kitchener didn't go down with the Hampshire-- but we all agree with her anyway about the fearful lot of Huns still at large in our ...