ot the artist put it in the sitter's
eye? And as to the hair--Heaven forbid that I should cast any reflection
upon any man of Mr. LLOYD GEORGE's age possessing abundant locks; on the
contrary, I congratulate him; but in all my experience I have never yet
known a portrait to be taken without the sitter being requested first of
all to brush his hair. Why has Mr. AUGUSTUS JOHN flown in the face of
all precedent by neglecting this simple yet desirable precaution?

I feel very strongly that nothing in the portrait indicates the sitter's
nationality, his profession, his love of home, his favourite recreation
or his religious convictions. These, I venture to say, are grave
omissions. The picture is sadly wanting in suitable accessories. If I
had been painting it I should have put a simple yellow daffodil in the
MINISTER'S buttonhole, and pictured through an open window a sunlit bed
of leeks, with perhaps a goat gambolling among them. I should have
represented the MINISTER OF MUNITIONS in his study practising putting
with a small bomb. And on the wall should have been a life-size portrait
of the Rev. Dr. CLIFFORD.

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[Illustration: _Officer at Front_ (_reading letter from home_). "The
other day we went to see the ruins of a house which had been bombed by a
Zeppelin. You can't imagine what it was like!"]

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"The elements so mixed" again.

"The air is the new element, and all the evidence suggests that
we are at sea in it." _Star._

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Le Mouton Enrage.

"Sheep, and also other wild animals, have a trying time in
procuring their necessary food."

That's what makes them so wild.

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A Hero at Zero.

"Fish for the Canadian troops. The supply has been organised by
Major Hughie Green, who is known as the 'Canadians'
Fishmonger-General,' and has travelled in a frozen condition
2,000 miles across the Dominion."--_Daily Mirror._

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"A young farm hand who appealed to the Coalville Tribunal for
exemption yesterday, when asked whether an older brother could
not take his place on the farm, replied that his brother's feet
were too small for work on the land."--_Morning Paper._

We hope that his own are not too cold for work in the trenches.

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