he exotic feminine you meet
In bounteous Buenos Aires.

Why, then, should mud be thrown so hard
At Stockholm's faith? She merely meant
To show a neighbourly regard
Towards a nice belligerent;
For peaceful massage she was made;
Aloof from martial animosities,
She yearns with fingers gloved in suede
To temper war's callosities.

Such courtesy (one would have said)
Amid the waste of savage strife
Tends to maintain--what else were dead--
The sweet amenities of life;
And seeking ends so pure, so good,
So innocent, it _does_ surprise her
To be so much misunderstood
By all--except the KAISER.

O.S.

* * * * *

THE PRUDENT ORATOR.

"The Premier was accompanied by Mrs. Lloyd George and his
laughter."

_Irish Daily Telegraph_.

* * * * *

"Our new nippers are beginning to squeeze to some tune in France
and Belgium."

_Liverpool Daily Post_.

Try a little oil.

* * * * *

We print (with shame and the consciousness of turpitude) the following
letter:--

"_Bed 56, E Block_, 11/9/1917.

"DEAR SIR,--This morning I was reading your edition dated September
5, 1917. In the 'Charivaria' I saw an article in which you
proclaimed the North Pole to be the only territory that has not
had its neutrality violated by the Huns. I beg to draw your
attention to the South Pole.

"I remain, yours sincerely,

"A WOUNDED TOMMY."

* * * * *

WASHOUT.

We had hardly settled down to Mess when an orderly, armed with a buff
slip, shot through the door, narrowly missed colliding with the soup,
and pulled up by Grigson's chair. Grigson is our Flight Commander--one
of those rugged and impenetrable individuals who seem impervious
to any kind of shock. There is a legend that on one occasion four
machine-gun bullets actually hit him and bounced off, which gave the
imitative Hun the idea of armour-plating his machines.

Grigson took the slip and read, slowly and paraphrastically: "Night
operations. A machine will be detailed to leave the ground at 10:30
pip emma and lay three fresh eggs on the railway-station at ----.
At the special request of the G.O.C.R.F.C., Lieutenant Maude, the
well-known strafer, will oblige. Co-operation by B and C Flights."

Lieutenant Maude, commonly known by a loose associ