“WHO BREAKS PAYS.”—­“In some large restaurants,” says the Daily Chronicle, “the girls engaged have to pay for the breakages which occur in the course of carrying on a business in which they are not partners.”  If the maxim at the head of this paragraph were strictly and impartially enforced, such exacting employers would have to pay pretty smartly for certain “breakages” which occur in the carrying on of a business in which they consider they have no concern—­breakages, to wit, of the girls’ health, spirits, and, often, hearts!

* * * * *

MODERN VERSION OF “WISE MEN OF THE EAST.”—­The Congress of Orientalists.

* * * * *

NOTICE.—­Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper.  To this rule there will be no exception.