it will receive further recognition before
long.

* * * * *

In an article entitled "The Superiority of German Strategy" the
_Frankfurter Zeitung_ says:--

"The road before us is, however, long and calls for great
achievements. We are not lacking in strength. Let us wait and
see."

Mr. ASQUITH is wondering what this flattery portends.

* * * * *

"I have spoken of the good there is in grooves, in the groovy
way of life ... Who can be blind to the fact that life in a
groove leads to bigotry and nar-grooves, in the groovy way of
life?"

"_Claudius Clear_" in "_The British Weekly._"

Not we. We have never been blind to anything of the sort.

* * * * *

"Little Lady, during all these months thoughts entirely with
you, treasuring up unbleaching memory of happy hours spent
together."--_Advertisement in "The Times._"

Presumably in the wash-house. Unless some confusion arose, in the mind
of the advertiser, between dying and bleaching.

* * * * *

ECONOMY IN DRESS: THE NEW SMARTNESS.

[Illustration: "IT'S LOVELY, BUT I'M AFRAID THIRTY GUINEAS IS TOO MUCH
FOR ME."

"IT _IS_ A GOOD DEAL, BUT MADAM MUST REMEMBER THIS A GENUINE OLD DRESS.
WE GUARANTEE IT TO HAVE BEEN IN CONSTANT WEAR FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS."]

* * * * *

[Illustration: "I SAY! THAT'S A SMART FROCK, IF YOU LIKE!"

"H'M, YES. BUT IT'S ONLY IMITATION--NOT REAL OLD."]

* * * * *

[Illustration: "I LIKE IT, BUT IT LOOKS DREADFULLY NEW."

"IF YOU FEEL THAT, MADAM, MIGHT I SUGGEST THAT YOU HAVE IT SOILED BY OUR
SPECIAL PROCESS? WE ONLY CHARGE THREE GUINEAS EXTRA."]

* * * * *

[Illustration: "COME ALONG, MABEL. DON'T MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER LOOKING
IN THERE. OLD CLOTHES ARE NOT FOR THE LIKES OF US."]

* * * * *

[Illustration: _Visitor._ "And how did you _know_ when you were
wounded?"

_Tommy._ "SAW IT IN _THE DAILY MAIL._"]

* * * * *

MATCH PLAY.

Since the Budget was produced the match-mendicant is at work more
industriously than ever, patting his pockets and looking round
expectantly at his fellow-travellers. The surreptitious filling of
private boxes in restaurants and club smoke-rooms is rapidly on the
incre