the
fashions.

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"LONDON, JULY 16.

It is reported on reliable authority that General Wrangel has refused
to withdraw to the Cinema in compliance with the terms of the proposed
armistice.--_Statesman_ (_Calcutta_).

It is believed that "MARY" and "DOUG." were greatly relieved to be rid of
so dangerous a rival.

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"When is the demoralisation at some of our great London hotels to give
place to reasonable service and cleanliness? On every side I hear
complaints of inefficient attendance and dirty rooms. As for clean
towels in the bathroom, they appear on the Ides of March."--_Sunday
Paper._

At one hotel, we understand, they failed to remember the Ides of March and
are now waiting for the Greek Kalends.

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[Illustration: THE "DO-IT-YOURSELF" AGE.

FATHER'S HOME-MADE SWEATER.]

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[Illustration: OUR SPORTING PURISTS.

_Urchin._ "COME AN' PLAY CRICKET, ALF."

_Alf._ "WOT! IN THE FOOTBALL SEASON?"]

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THE REVOLT OF YOUTH.

We publish a few selected letters from the mass of correspondence which has
reached us in connection with the controversy initiated by "A Bewildered
Parent" in _The Morning Post_:

A LEGUMINOUS LAUDATION.

SIR,--I confess I cannot share the anxiety of the "Bewildered Parent" who
complains of the child of two and a half years who addressed her learned
parent as "Old bean." As a convinced Montessorian I recognise in the
appellation a gratifying evidence of that self-expression which cannot
begin too young. Moreover there is nothing derogatory in the phrase; on the
contrary I am assured on the best authority that it is a term of endearment
rather than reproach. But, above all, as a Vegetarian I welcome the choice
of the term as an indication of the growth of the revolt against
carnivorous brutality. If the child in question had called her parent a
"saucy kipper" or "a silly old sausage" there would have been reasonable
ground for resentment. But comparison with a bean involves no obloquy, but
rather panegyric. The bean is one of the noblest of vegetables and is
exceptionally rich in calories, protein, casein, carbo-hydrates, thymol,
hexamyl, piperazine, salicylic dioxide, and permanganate of popocatapetl.
This a learned parent, if his learning was real,