her year's.'"

At this moment the fallen Art critic entered the conservatory.

"Is that you, Felicity?" he exclaimed. "You're cutting a dance with your
own father. I never heard of such a thing."

She sprang up.

"Oh, Papa!" she cried, "I _am_ sorry."

She slipped her arm through his, and as they moved away together I heard
her say, with what seemed unnecessary distinctness, "We were talking
Art, you know, and that's so dreadfully absorbing."

* * * * *

Commercial Candour.

"It is a matter of surprise in more than one well-appointed
household that the best efforts of a skillful chef can produce
nothing more acceptable than

----'s Tomato Soup.."--_Advt._

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From a review of a book by Mr. Harold Russell:--

"The horrible chigoes, or 'jiggers,' are of the flea family, and
with them we must leave Mr. Russell."--_Yorkshire Post._

Is this kind?

* * * * *

"The three greatest pets in the Darwin district are said to be
the white ant--which sometimes grows to the size of a bee--the
marsh fly, and the great Darwin mosquito."

_Adelaide Register._

Our white ant "Fifi" has just bitten through her collar and run away. If
found wandering, please return.

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SITTING TIGHT.

[Illustration: American Eagle. "OF COURSE I'M IN A VERY STRONG POSITION
AND QUITE COMFORTABLE. ALL THE SAME, I HOPE THEY'LL HURRY UP WITH THE
MEDIATION."]

* * * * *

[Illustration: Forced into retirement (happily only temporary) by his
introduction of the taxi-cab, our devoted follower of yesterday;
again takes the field.]

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NOVELIST AND MILLIONAIRE.

Fortified by the inspiring example of Mr. Upton Sinclair, who recently
picketed the offices of the Standard Oil Company in New York with a view
to bringing pressure to bear on Mr. John Rockefeller, Junr., Mr. Alf.
Abel, the famous Manx novelist, has adopted similar measures to bring
Mr. Andrew Carnegie to reason. The trouble is of long standing and has
grown out of the movement inaugurated by Mr. Abel to induce
municipalities and local authorities to refuse the gifts of Free
Libraries. Such benefactions, as Mr. Abel has most conclusively shown,
while nominally intended to educate the masses, in reality have the
result of restrict