The demand for the new stamps Is lamentably but rather appropriately. described in one headline Duty Said a Shoreham—"My duty is quite ad da tore You've just swum the Channet—Your trousers of flannel Will cost! one and. sla—though you wore fern."
Cause Juncr—Well, Mose,. what brings you back into court?
Mose—Ah got a. cause dis time, Judge, What would you'll do, Judge, feffen some one wuz to steal yo" gal?
Judge—Why, Td cut her company, believe, Mose—Well, da's jes" zachly whut Ah done, Judge, an' Ah' cut "him Absent-minded Poresson, at a dinner, was offered spinach, of which he took a handful and rubbed it into his hair. "What on earth are you doing, pro: fessor?" asked a lady who sat next to him. fare open after midnight, but some fare, and at midnight on! August 31 they were crowded with people buy-
Have 1 done something silly?
"Well, you've just rubbed a handful of spinach into. your hair. ing'as madly as jobbers in the Jungle yoasin's "spinach? Oh, I'm 40 sorry, 1 when there are reports of a goid-MOUs it was salad. strike. "It is estimated that 30,000,000] Involved stamps, oF half og many' again as an, ordinary" day's selling, ere bought inthe frst 24 hours' Many people Posted letters 10° themselves hoping receive them Some plastered as many stamps on the envelope as st would carry, ethers deliberately understamped ta order have the "envelope surcharged, There are. aubile reasons. for this hich collectors will appreciate, Your readers: will have plenty, of opportunities, by the same fall hat rings. this of forming their" own pinion of the stamps. "Generally" we ike them, though the leering seems needlessly big and obtrusive and th frown i ineffectual. But the colour Ing is attractive, pariculary the blue Bas and"it i really a. delight to have got rid of the florid, meaning: Ieee frame that surrounds the head King George "Bespoke Tallors™ Dittntticy The possbiliy that English tailors bespoke talers" tat isto use the delightful old world phrase which, fistingusos a maker of clothes from purveyor of mas reproduction covers ingscmay" ultimately de. out seems too frightful to contemplate, "For the English ascendancy in culling men clothes is acknowledged by the world Snd "even American, who have deplorable addiction to padded should-crin annually spend' thousands Tendon sults.
'Yet at the annual conference of the National Federation of Merchant 'Tallors the keenest subject of dle+ Cussion was the eversinereasing diz filly of obtaining apprentices, 'There fide unemployment In tilering Int offers good wages and' scope for fndividunt ail! far more attractive than "the mass-production "employ= ment of factories But it must fniered early anda proper Ship be Served. "And the Either" boys. or. tele. parents" don scam to fancy tailoring, and the sup-Diy of potential artss"avindles.
'AL dinner in the evening the' conference cheered up a bit and listened With much. amesemnent to n_speceh by Mr. Walter Liddell, M.P, who told "them "that. they. made 'a big Mistake in the models they selected {or fashion plates. "Here am 17" said "with 'a IOiz Inch neck' and Seighing seventeen sone and my taller Shows me a picture of Anthony Eden the Ideallyedressed man. We are not all Anthony Edens, lounge Izards fu stars 'The conference also heard some re-boukes rom their' president on their lack of originality. Women's fashions thong, men'sare bound by an eternal ferd'fastinet. "Are we fo: continue accept the dress suit as the last word lit sartorial design for evening ear of ariel bags and tweed coats Seve, Ideal" form of comfortable ut it seems that we are. After the war it seemed tat dinner jookets had supplanted tals But tals have come back, I can recall attempts Introduce sprigged satin walscoaty inthe. evening and' stocks inthe Sternoon. They quickly failed Plus fours are dying out. Bowler hale are far more numerous now.
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