“SUSAN’S PUDDING.—­This is a super-excellent pudding, and, as times go, the cost of the material used is not excessive.  Required:  One cup each of flour, breadcrumbs, raisins (stoned and chopped), currants (washed and dried), also a teacupful of baking powder....  If served only on occasion—­a special occasion—­the most scrupulously careful housewife should not be troubled by uneasy sensations.”—­Bristol Times and Mirror.

We should—­after a teacupful of baking powder.

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[Illustration:  THE BELGIAN “MENACE.”

KAISER.  “IF I GRANT YOU MY GRACIOUS PARDON, WILL YOU PROMISE NOT
TO TERRORISE ME AGAIN?”

{"Belgium would be required to give a guarantee that any such menace as that which threatened Germany in 1914 would in future be excluded.”—­German Foreign Secretary to Papal Nuncio at Munich.}]

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RAID JOTTINGS.

A good deal of dissatisfaction is expressed with the state of the cellars to which people have been invited during the raids.  “Surely,” writes one of our correspondents, “it is a scandal that, at this time in the world’s history, some cellars should be totally destitute of wine.  That there should be no coal in the coal-cellars is understandable enough; but to ask the timid public into empty wine cellars is a travesty of hospitality.”

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Every effort will be made when the House reassembles to provide separate cellars for the SPEAKER and Mr. PEMBERTON BILLING.

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Mr. JIMMY WILDE, the Welsh boxer, it has been widely announced, had a marvellous escape from an air-bomb.  The little champion (for once not in a position to hit back) was standing in the door of his hotel when the projectile dropped, and blew him along the passage, but inflicted no injuries.  The world will therefore hear from Mr. WILDE again, whose future antagonists should view with a shudder this inability of the Gothas to knock him out.

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Mr. WILDE is, however, not alone in his good fortune.  From all the bombarded parts, and from some others, come news of remarkable pieces of good luck, due almost or wholly to the fact that the bombs fell on spots where our correspondents were not standing, although they might easily have been there had they not been elsewhere.  The similarity of their experience is indeed most striking.

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Mr. HAROLD BEGBIE, for example, who disapproves of soldiers laughing, happened to be in the country on the night of the 24th.  Had he been in town he might, in a melancholy reverie caused by the incorrigible light-heartedness of his fellow-countrymen, have wandered bang into the danger zone.  No one can be too thankful that he did not.

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