the high cost of living, which tempted the
customers to eat far more soap than formerly.

***

In the Lambeth Police Court a man was convicted of stealing three
galvanized iron roofs. His explanation that he had had the good fortune
to win them at an auction bridge party was rejected by the Court.

***

A Mr. R. H. PEARCE, writing to _The Times_, says: "I once lived in a
house where my neighbour (a lady) kept twelve cats." Mr. PEARCE is
probably unique in his experience. Our own neighbours only go so far as
to arrange for the entertainment of their cats in our garden.

* * * * *

FIRST CASUALTY OF THE NON-COMBATANT CORPS.

[Illustration: _Red Cross Man._ "What is it?"

_Stretcher-bearer._ "Shock. He was digging and he cut a worm in half."]

* * * * *

An Appropriate Locale.

"Bohemian Picture Theatre, Phibsboro' To-day for Three Days
Only, Justus Miles Forman's Exciting Story, The Garden of Lies."

_Irish Paper._

* * * * *

VARIETIES.

"A word that is always spelled swrong.--W-r-o-n-g."--_Wellington
Journal._

We don't believe this is true.

* * * * *

"WOMEN ARE ASKED TO WEAR NO MORE CLOTHES than are absolutely
necessary."

_Dundee Courier._

Several cases of shock are reported among ladies who got no further than
the large type lines.

* * * * *

ART IN WAR-TIME.

[_A fragmentary essay in up-to-date criticism of any modern
Exhibition--the R. A. excluded._]

In the Central Hall the Reduplicated Praeteritists, the Tangentialists
and the Paraphrasts are all well represented. Mr. Orguly Bolp's large
painting, entitled "Embrocation," is an interesting experiment in the
handling of aplanatic surfaces, in which the toxic determinants are
harmonized by a sort of plastic _meiosis_ with syncopated rhythms. His
other large picture, "Interior of a Dumbbell by Night," has the same
basic idea without the appearance of it, and gives a very vital sense of
the elimination of noumenal perceptivity. M. Paparrigopoulo, the Greek
Paraphrast, calls one of his pictures "The Antecedent," another "The
Relative," and a third "The Correlative," but though they are thus
united syntactically each follows its own reticulation to a logical
conclusion, and carries with it a spiritual sanction, not always
coher