Treasurer Stevenson has been giving some reminiscencies of his long connexion with Edinburgh and its Town Council. He tells how, at the opening of a new fever hospital, the King, after performing the cere-many, turned to the then Lord Provost and said, "Shall I go in?" "Why," was the reply, "we're a' gaun in thegether."
After the Council had agreed to accept a certain contract for bookbinding, a deputation called on Treasurer Stevenson and objected to this course on the ground that the work would be done by women. The Treasurer asked the leader if, when he bought a pair of boots, he asked to be assured that they had not been made by women. "I'm surprised at you," said the spokesman in reply. "An illustration is no' an argument,''
At the last election, a man said Councillor Mrs, Alderton:—"Would ye no' like to be a man?" "T have no desire to be a man," she said, "but would you not like to be one?"
POOR SOCCER INTERNATIONAL, At Newcastle the 28th Association football match between the Scottish and English Leagues re sulted in a victory for the latter, England thus registering her 16th win of the series. Few, if any, tears were shed by enthusiasts north of the Border, for this annual match has never commanded the interest and partisanship associated with the real International, which ig 20 years its senior. Scotland were unfortunate to lose, for not only were they deprived of the services of two players during the game, but the ground conditions made a first-class exposition of the game by either side an impossibility. Such conditions were supposed to be in favour of the Scots, and indeed they were considered potent-
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