Paris, Jan, 20.
Monsieur Painlevé has been re-lected President of, the Chamber. "The Session is. expected to be a stormy and diffeylt ofo, and there have been more accomplished presidents than the ex-Premier; but nobody was surprised that he should get his majority. Angry men do not Tough easily, and French deputies fare of all men the most swiftly angered, and of all angered men the angelest, and of all the angriest men on record they are almost certainly, and without forgetting the d of Ireland, the noisiest; but in the past few months Painlevé has at least earned this title to recognition, that he has caused heated breast: to cool themselves with not unsympathetic Inughter, He cannot control the Chamber; few of its Presidents have ever dreamed of such an autocracy; but he has been able to control the amused affection we give to the old woman in the shoe, who had 30 many children she didn't know what to do, It is far beyond Painlevé or anybody else to Whip them and send them to bed, whether with or without their sup: per, but they rather like his wild attempts to do we. To preside over the Chamber is a terrific fob for fan irascible man, who is furnished with no better weapon than a bra zen bell, which might be heard on Ludgate Circus but never in the Paviy Lower House; but those who have watched him fall upon it, shake it, worry it, savage it, in the vain hope that somebody will listen. to it, give him full credit for the fact that he has not yet thrown it at anybody. Deschanel was an ideal Poasident of the Chamber; he never ost his temper.. We all remember that; and we have not forgotten that' he died prematurely of some thing approaching apoplexy of the The Foolishness of Them The Financial Conference is wetually over, and in comparative safety. "That is much, mounted during its course that students of the previous 2 Peace Conferences were without trepidation in reading a phrase hitherto used freely on vecnsions when everybody, everybody else as well, was threaten inge to go home and tell Mother, Ages ago, when Englishwomen were fighting for the vote, one of the reasons given by men' for denying it to them was' that when they got together on committees or commi sions or any such bodies, they could not agree. After surviving, at long or short range, 29 ature gatherings of male delegates to make peace can only remember with gratitude that Mrs, Poyser said it once and denying' that God "Almighty the men.' sone has provided Paris with a rich harvest of gossip. Who said wi and how war b tween the Tonga Telands and Spitz-bergen was only averted by. the tact of the delegate for Peru; how Mr. This had been quite cross with Monsieur That at the meeting of the ninetieth Sub-Committee for the Regulation of Prepositions im Official Documents: how Signor Spaghet drew his fountain pen and flourished it at Mr. Elisha Q. Chariot in full assembly. {The stories are whispered and shouted round Paris, and the average citizen summons.an oficial smile (he-has Heard them 29 times), and wonders when prices will fall.
After five years they: are still rising. His food and this soap and his rent cost him more. Can you expect him to be interested in whether Mr. Churchill shook his ringlets anybody or not? The price of mest and rice and bread is what. worries us, and experts talking finance im an official building move the householder not at all, save that the spectacle fills. him with. a horrid dread that somehow or other life will shortly cost him more.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.