,
Also Apollo (he was fine
In the old films as _Alf the Freak_).

They shall behold TEIRESIAS
Telling the doom of Thebes, and con
With eyes but not with lips the crass
Way in which OEDIPUS went on.

They shall observe quite painlessly
The heroes toiling as they sit
Rowing upon the sun-kissed sea
With black smuts racing over it.

Some stout electroscopic "star,"
Some Gallic beauty bistre-eyed,
Shall show them in the years afar
How Helen laughed, how Priam died,

And how the good AENEAS came
Through faked adventures on the screen
To Latium, and what forks of flame
Devoured a dummy Punic queen.

What snares the Queen of Love employed,
What Juno: mixed with local ads,
These shall be thoroughly enjoyed
By all appreciative lads.

And some day, if the gods are kind
To hearts so filled with classic feats
In many a marble palace "cined"
And puffed so oft in halfpenny sheets,

Shall come revulsion, faintly stirred
By Phoebus' and the Muses' laugh,
Against the foul sins of a word
Like spectodrome or vitagraph.

Youth shall draw learning from the spring
Pierian, and be taught to know
The clustered verbal shames that cling
About the moving picture show,

Till at the last shall dawn a bright,
A long-to-be-remembered day,
When porticos of fanes of light
Shall print Kinema with a K.

EVOE.

* * * * *

"H.M.S. Cumberland.

Geneva, Tuesday.

The Municipality to-day gave a luncheon in honour of the
officers and cadets of the training ship Cumberland.--Reuter."

_Naval and Military Record._

Another record for WINSTON. He alone could succeed in getting _H.M.S.
Cumberland_ to Geneva.

* * * * *

"Widcombe Manor, Bath, in which Fielding is said to have written
'Tom Jones,' is to come under the hammer shortly. It is one of
the smaller houses erected by Indigo Jones."

_Manchester Evening News._

It was, of course, the influence of his ancestor Indigo which so tinged
certain episodes in _Tom's_ career.

* * * * *

THE BAZAAR CUSHION.

"Ha! Someone has been sitting on it," cried Father William, snatching a
flattened object off the piano-stool in high irritation. "It's
abominable, you know," turning to me. "There are any number of cushions.
The house is stuffed