The newspapers are full of pictures of Society taking its outing between 11 and 1 o'clock in the park, and as the war profiteer thinks it is the correct thing to hire a horse and appear in Rotten Row, the New Poor, who have long ago sold their horses to the profiteers, turn up to see how they manage to hang on if the animals' break into a canter.
Last Sunday there were plenty of people on the river, though to take anyone down there nowadays is a costly affair, since the prices of all river craft and all entertainment have gone sky high.
Already the theatres have begun to "feel the draught." Until quite recently, they were doing excellent. ly, but when there is a counter attraction of fine weather. it has begun to dawn on the theatre manager that he will have to put something decent on the stage in. stead of throwing any old thing at the audiences, who have shown themselves so undiscriminating in the past that they merit all the cavalier treatment they have received.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.