Motor engines, motor engines, do not wear a bonnet! 
  You have artificial heat—­grow something on it! 
  Precious artificial heat, costly to instal;
  Turn it into a hot-bed, growing food for all!

Must you have a superstructure?  Let it be a hot-house Forcing (say) some early peas—­the only decent pot-house; Oh, if I could only see in walking down the street No unpatriotic waste of all that lovely heat!

  Motor lorries for Marrows! 
       Taxis for Nectarines! 
     No more coster-barrows,
       But lemon-house Limousines! 
     Oh, to see Tomaties
     Skidding by Frascati’s! 
  Grand heads of Celery passing the Carlton Grill,
  And fine forced Strawberries—­forced up Denmark Hill!

  Hard’s the fight with Nature in our uncongenial climate,
  Cuddling plants and coaxing ’em, and oh, the weary time it
  Takes to get a slender crop—­we toil the Summer through;
  England, needing quick returns, is looking now to you!

  Food that comes from tropic lands, needing heat upon it,
  You could grow without a thought, if you’d doff your bonnet;
  Thousands of you, growing food on your daily trips,
  Helping to economise the tonnage of our ships.

  Oh, to count the numbers
       Of Cabbages on the march,
     Jostling with Cucumbers
       Just at the Marble Arch! 
     Oh, for Piccadilly’s
     Capsicums and Chilies! 
  Oh, for Peckham’s Peaches (not the sort that’s canned),
  And oh, for ripe Bananas roaring down the Strand!

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    “A reaper and binder was destroyed, also a foster mother incubator
    with 43 young children.”—­Chester Chronicle.

The paragraph is headed “Fire at a Farm”—­a baby-farm, we fear.

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=IN A GOOD CAUSE.=

On Sunday, June 10th, Mr. GEORGE ROBEY is to give a Concert, at 7 P.M., at the Palladium, in aid of the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage, which is in special need of funds on account of the losses sustained at the Front among members of the Police Force.

Mr. GEORGE ROBEY will be assisted by Miss IRENE VANBRUGH, Miss HELEN MAR, Mr. JOHN HASSALL, Mr. HARRY DEARTH and others, as well as by the Royal Artillery String Band, the Canadian Military Choir and the Metropolitan Police Minstrels.

Tickets are on sale at the National Sunday League Offices, 34, Red Lion Square, W.C., and applications for boxes will be received personally by Mr. ROBEY at the Hippodrome.

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=The Domestic Problem—­Two Extremes.=

    “WANTED, Housemaid and Kitchenmaid; Paying Guests.”

    “SCULLERY or Between Maid required immediately for Derbyshire;
    wages L218.”

    Morning Post.

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