DEVONPORT decree a roll just half the size, and the difference both
in consumption and waste will be enormous. At a dinner-party which I
attended the other evening, not, Sir, a hundred miles from your
own office, the excessive size of the rolls was the subject of much
comment. No one should be given the opportunity of leaving any bread.
It should be doled out in the smallest doses.

Yours, etc.,
OBSERVER.

THE USE OF ABUSE.

SIR,--The real trouble with the food economy campaign is that ordinary
people, who perhaps, not unnaturally, have got into the habit of not
believing the daily papers, do not realise what their enemy and
the chief enemy of the country at this moment is--I mean the German
submarine. In order to get this fact into their intelligence I suggest
that free classes in objurgation are at once instituted, in which,
instead of the common "You beast!" "You brute!" "You blighter!" and
so forth, the necessity of saying nothing but "You (U) boat!" in every
dispute or quarrel is insisted upon. The young might also be thus
instructed.

Yours, etc.,
FAR SIGHTED.

WRIT SARCASTIC.

SIR,--I have an infallible plan for diminishing the consumption of
good food, at any rate among Members of the Government. Let them give
up all other forms of nutriment and eat their own words. The PRIME
MINISTER might begin. I am,

Yours, etc.,
ORGANISED OPPOSITION.

"FOOD HOGS" SUPERSEDED.

SIR,--I am told that there are people so lost to shame that they are
still, in spite of the KING'S Proclamation and all the other appeals
to their patriotism, eating as usual. I suggest that they be branded
as the "Alimentary Canaille."

Yours, etc.,
DISGUSTED.

* * * * *

"Sir G. Cornewall Lewis made the best speeches in the moist
manner."--_British Weekly_.

We had always understood till now that he was one of our dry speakers.

* * * * *

"Mr. R. M'Neill was surprised that the hon. member should have
thought it worth while to make a point of that sort. Surely he
knew the rule 'Qui facit peralium facit perse.'"--_The Times_.

The maxim seems to have jammed.

* * * * *

"Mr. Bonar Law replied: 'The Imperial War Cabinet is both
executive and consultative, its functions being regulated by
the nature of the subject of the Bandman Opera Coy.'"--_The
Empire_ (_Calcutta_).

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