When we are introduced to Margaret Grenfield, the heroine of Fetters on the Feet (ARNOLD), she is living with some Quaker cousins and spending most of her time in mending stockings.  So many people make stockings who refuse absolutely to mend them that I imagine there must be something peculiarly unattractive in this work of restoration, and it was a fortunate day for Margaret when the pedantic young man of the house proposed to marry her.  After this we discover that she has both a history and a will of her own.  She leaves the Quakers, and goes as secretary to a lady who holds eccentric if broadminded views on every conceivable subject, and the change of atmosphere, however delightful in various ways, was too much for Margaret’s peace of mind.  The young Quaker was an obstinate wooer and followed her up, but his chances of success, which were never rosy, grew dimmer and dimmer as Margaret, freeing herself of shackles, gradually began to see life as a whole instead of through the eye of a darning-needle.  In the end MRS. FRED REYNOLDS tells us that “the day dawned.  The whole earth sang and sparkled in the glad light of it,” which is her way of saying that Margaret had found happiness.  But all the same I fancy that introspection had become such a habit of this heroine that she is still likely to have days when the dawn is grey and no birds sing.

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“He was also the first officer to make a successful flight from the deck of a British warship, and on one occasion he changed an aeroplane propeller blade whilst flying 2,000ft. above the sea.”—­Evening Paper.

The above extract has been forwarded by the members of a R.F.C. mess, who are anxious to know what happened when he stopped his engine.

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    “Wanted, for a Farmhouse, Middle-Aged Person to look an Old Lady;
    lifting and light duties.”—­Newcastle Daily Journal.

We doubt if there will be much response.  Most middle-aged persons nowadays prefer to look like flappers.

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From a trade prospectus:—­

    “——­Cubes contain the nourishing proprieties of beef.”

We have always been great believers in bovine modesty.