a result of a contemporary drawing attention to Chicago's
leniency towards women murderers, ladies whose hobby is homicide are now
flocking to that city and it is becoming uncomfortably overcrowded.

* * *

"Frau Krupp von Bohlen," we are told, "is the largest payer of war tax in
Germany. Her contribution amounts to L440,000." We have a sort of idea,
however, that she gets some of this back.

* * * * *

[Illustration: _The Younger Brother_ (_in an awestruck whisper_). "SAY,
'ORACE, ARE YOU _SURE_ WE'RE RIGHT FOR THE GALLERY? THERE'S A GENT BEHIND
WIV SPATS ON!"]

* * * * *

"Sir John Collie ridiculed the present system by which 22,000 doctors
depend for an income on their capacity to please their
parents."--_Labour Leader._

And not only doctors. The Temple is full of people in the same ridiculous
position.

* * * * *

"Mathilde explained (her name, of course, was Mathilde really but
peasants in Normandy, and for that matter all over France, are
curiously inaccurate with names, and often misplace letters in this
manner)."

_"Evening News" Feuilleton._

The printer of the above must be careful when he crosses the Channel, or he
may pick up this bad habit.

* * * * *

"Tonight and tomorrow they will play a matched game of 1,500
points--750 each night. A local billiard enthusiast has offered $100
to either of the players who scores a 00 break or better. This to the
average billiard player seems a tremendous break."

_Vancouver Daily Paper._

But not to us.

* * * * *

POLITICS ON THE LINKS.

I put down my morning paper as I left the train for the golf club. It
contained the interesting news that the Parliamentary Golf Handicap had
been postponed lest fiery politicians should run amok with their clubs. I
sighed, for the spectacle of BONAR v. BOGEY (The CHANCELLOR) would have
beaten the MITCHELL-CARPENTIER fight. Then it came home to me that I, a
golfer, a citizen, a voter, was taking no part in the great political
struggle of the day. I had not even declined to deal with my butcher
because he was a Conservative, or closed my wife's draper's account because
he was a Liberal. It is a curious fact, worthy the serious attention of
political philosophers, that butchers are always Co