condone my irreverent tone--
Generous WELLINGTON KOO.

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"ROYAL EXILES.

Some archdukes have become clerks, and many have become
governesses and ladies' maids."--_Tasmanian Paper._

For these last two posts, their archness would, we think, be an
irresistible qualification.

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"NURSES WANTED.

540 Hours Working Week.

Extra pay at special rates for any time worked in excess of
ordinary working hours."

_Provincial Paper._

The generous provision for "overtime" makes the above offer unusually
attractive.

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IF THEY WERE AT SCHOOL.

(_That is, if the House of Commons were like our School Debating
Society--as indeed it is--and if its proceedings were reported with the
incisive brevity of our School Magazine--and why not?_)

On Wednesday the Society held its 2,187th meeting. There was some
regrettable rowdiness during Private Business, and A. MOSELEY
(Collegers) had to be ejected for asking too many questions. Members
must not bring bags of gooseberries into the debates.

In Public Business the motion was:--

"_That in the opinion of this House Science is better than Sport._"

D. LLOYD GEORGE, Proposer (School House), said that Science had won the
War, and quoted Wireless Telegraphy and Daylight Saving to prove this.
The most successful Generals had had a scientific training. His uncle
had met a General who knew algebra and used it at the Battle of the
Marne. Only two first-class cricketers had ever been in the Cabinet.
Three scientists had. The earth went round the sun. The moon went round
the earth. Rivers flowed into the ocean.

An improving speaker, who is inclined to be carried away by his
enthusiasm. Too many metaphors.

H. ASQUITH, Opposer (Collegers), said that the speech of the hon.
Proposer was a tissue of fabrications, as ineffective as they were
insincere. Never in the whole course of his career had he encountered a
subterfuge so transparent, a calumny so shameless as the attempt of the
Hon. Prop., he might say the calculated and cynical attempt of the Hon.
Prop., to seduce from their faith the tenacious acolytes of Sport by
the now threadbare recital of the dubious and, on his own showing, the
anaemic enticements of Science. The War had proved that Science was no
good.

This speaker is steadily improving, but he has a