Enough!  I leave our honour in your keeping. 
    What are your bright swords for except to slay? 
  Preserve their lustre; let me see them leaping
    Out of their scabbards twenty times a day;
  Unless we smash these craven churls like crockery
    To prove our right of place within the sun,
  Our martial prestige has become a mockery
      And Deutschland’s day is done!

  O.S.

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    “The dancing, in the conventional bullet style, of Miss Sybil
    Roe, was quite good.”—­Wiltshire Times.

We confess that the bullet style is too fast for us.

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“In all the best dress ateliers classic evening gowns are now being exhibited, and in many of these the lines of the corsage closely resemble the draperies to be seen on the Venus de Milo.”—­Daily Mail.

We must go and look at the Venus de Milo’s corsage again.

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The new journal-insurance.

[Several newspapers have been roused to a sense of their duties to their readers by the insurance competition between The Chronicle and The Mail.  We make a few preliminary announcements of other insurance schemes which are not yet contemplated.]

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