Are muffs coming in again? 'They are certainly seen in the dressmakers' salons, and in the farriers' shops, but there are several reasons for doubting whether they will really be seen very constantly in the! streets, in owner-driven ears or on the majority of ordinary occasions.
The principal reason is the fact. that modern life and modern acti vities have imposed a policy of! elimination on women in gonoral. Although we now indulge in a thousand small luxuries of which our! mothers and grandmothers never dreamt, we have done away with a great many things which seemed to them essential, Examples of howlers perpetrated by boys are often published in the daily press, but we rarely read of any by schoolgirls, A_correspondent to the "Morning Post," sends in the following delightful batch of howlers gleaned from General Knowledge papers set to pupils of a girls' school:
'Three explanations of rule of thumb'
When a person can twist you round his little finger, 2 When Tom Thumb was King of England, A quick way of doing sums.
A layette:
A workman who builds houses.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.