... 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 ...

... U[ iLi .1^1 BY JINGLE. v' -'V; THIS is a play devoted to the out-of-joint times in which we live at present, and its popularity should be assured. It is all about the social changes brought about by the war. The man who was hardly the sort you could meet socially a year or two ago becomes, under the reign of Mars, your superior officer. It is to the credit -J' of most of such men in the ...

... 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 HUN MEETS A GENTLEMAN ...

... By FITZWILLIAM THE Irish are fond of suggesting that we do not understand them, and it may be that there we fail, but I wonder if ever it occurs to Irishmen, whether from Belfast or Limerick, that they do not understand the English? They certainly fail to see that modern England is not the England of the Coercion Acts, and that for fifty years, through Unionists such as George Wyndham, just ...

... 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 ...

... £>of A I f\ I J A Js ffl^ OUR OWN ELECTION ADDRESS r^ Im Basil NacdonalcL Uastinas. No doubt you have studied with close attention the election addresses of the Conservative, Liberal, and Labour leaders. You have probably come to the conclusion that Mr. Baldwin thinks he can get you a little more tin, Mr; Asquith wishes you to keep what tin you have, and Mr. Macdonald-- (we do wish these ...

... COAifjg^vS in ii Paris- Also Ran A YEAR ago our Spring Fashions Number might have dealt with the progress promised in the adornment of woman-- lovely woman. But, to-day, all this is changed. The ladies have had to take a back seat and Paris lags behind Oxford as an arbiter of Fashion. Signs of the Times Lest you should think I exaggerate, let _j me say that in my morning paper I find a ...

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... RACING NOTIONS By CARBINE Autumn Puzzles RACING people are now getting right down to the puzzles of the autumn handicaps. Interest has been stimulated by the appearance of the first lists of London Betting on the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire. The odds do not strike me as being particularly tempting. For example, we find Lightning Artist at 8 to I for the Cesarewitch, yet it is probable ...

... RUGGER REFLECTIONS GETTING DOWN TO IT By PENDARVES THE gentlemen from New South Wales opened our season for us. The moment they arrived in the West Country everyone sort of sat up and took notice of the fact that the Rugger season had begun again-- thank heaven. This because the Waratahs, as people call them, had an excellent Press. One heard that they had giant torwards who run like deer ...

... EMRNPER COMMENTS Sudden Sunshine SPRING came suddenly, says an observer of modern phenomena; and so, I suppose, we may try to persuade ourselves that Winter will not last until July, as is usually the case. Certainly the observer aforesaid has had every reason for his optimism-- whatever the weather may be at the moment! Singing in the Spring Those jolly old songs that we used to sing before ...