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[Illustration:  “GOD BLESS THE OLD WOMAN!  SHE IS THOUGHTFUL.  I TOLD ’ER THERE WAS ICE IN THE TRENCHES THE LARST TIME I WROTE, AND I’M BLEST IF SHE ’ASN’T SENT ME A PAIR OF SKATES!”]

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A Great Problem Solved.

Some carry their season tickets in their hat-bands, others fasten them on their wrists, others wear them attached to cords.  A correspondent writes:—­

“In my own overcoat I find an ingenious arrangement excellently suited for the purpose of carrying a season ticket, so that it shall be at once secure and easily accessible.  The tailor has made a horizontal slit, about two-and-a-half inches wide, in the right side of the coat, and cunningly inserted a small rectangular bag or pouch of linen, the whole thing being strongly stitched and neatly finished off with a flap.  It makes an admirable receptacle for a season ticket of ordinary dimensions, and I recommend this contrivance to those who may not be acquainted with it.”

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“Well-fed as we are at home, and conscious that the men who are fighting our battles are the best provisioned forces who ever took the field, we can contemplate the continuance of the coldest weather for twenty years with equanimity.”—­Daily Chronicle.

Or even for the duration of the War.