What would you say of a man who, Ju these times, "spends a thousand Albania and the Countess Apponyt Promises us all the colour and excitement for which we ordinary people, whether democrats or diefatored, live from one royal wed~
Know in time to bring them on Saturday. I moyn't supply anything fon Sunday now except mill."
"this is the ill-considered result of the new Sunday Shopping Act, Pre ding to another, fon nounced troops When" it was cisely what Act it is I do not know, of delighted nor I imagine do thousands of other 'Mbanians swept' down from. the People. That is what happens in this spats Jo ae ces ete fee Re Jenene conte Vastly" overiesislaed Age.
Some ussbody' hlahbrow in Whitehall has brain store, he drafts a But which an obedient Minister Into: duces ana "a somnolent. Parliament geese te er eer see ea a lee a Prsses, and 3M rts of inoffensive ops sre nfterablyineonvenien: ce lane furious, 1 some our correspondence columns, The wished to cope better with this prob-dollars a month on drinks alone. Well-being of cangues has occupied lem of housing, and the new. home, 'Well, it is done. and here in Shang-certain great minds, and one feels which is airy, pleasantly situated, hai, and I could give you the name and spacious, meets the difficulty ad-and address of the man, but will hat, when. we can' lay waste our mirably, and much credit must go refrain, powers in matters other than getting to Mrs. Hardman and her helpers for T can tell you though, in strictest and. spending and local troubles confidence, that the drink referred to generally, it can really be said that we have. reached the stage beyond is best quality milk, and. the consumers are some 140 little orphans convalescence from Schemozzleitis, at, St. Tichon's Orphanay fand are fairly headed for robust and The milk supply will, we hope, desirable Normalosis. continue through the great generosity. "AIL the same, some of the after~ of one of Shanghai's doors of good effects of our recent maladies remain: {there fg still a little congestion in the by stealth, but It costs, in these days. of high food. prices, $1,800 a month region" of the bank balance, and to keep the home going, and at the reserve strength there is not exactly present time Yunds are down to the what the doctor would order, last few hundred dollars, "But T see no sign of economy or of need among my friends in Shang~ No be understood hai" piped our Latest Returned the the promoters of the tea-dance are other day. We told her that of so anxious to make it a financial course we were still in the position Success, and it will be realized that be able to boll another potato, and fall who take tickets will be helping to put another cup of water in the cause which is really worth-whil soup when a surprise friend stayed 'AW better work than that which dinner, but that our condition Assists helpless foreign children in generally could be. likened to the this Eastern eily, can searcely be Yuined turret of which Byron sang, imagined. that we were but as ivy-leaves around this, "AIL green and wildly Gay's Days fresh. without, but worn and grey beneath." "Wildly fresh, perhaps,"
In deciding to produce a play, the she replied, "but not so green proceeds from which are to relieve coal charities, Mrs. Chancellor could Seat of Wealth scarcely have made a happier choice than John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera." This was a tremendous stick Sometimes, of course, appearances cess when it was produced in Lon-go the other way, and a shabby don many years ago now, and the terior eannot'always be regarded as story 1s told that, so great were the aay indication of poverty. T am told profits that some busy official sought bby a social worker here that not all to mulct the author for income-tax sour refugees are so down-and-out as on the royalties which must have ac~ their sartorial effects would lead one erned! te suppose, and that some of the "The choice, I repeat, is delightful, former industrial and farmer people and the production may serve to re-have mall fortunes sewn up in their mind some. of us to drop current clothes, while the pants seem to be writings for a space, and to look up the favourite safe deposits, literature which deals with the period "Of some of this wealth we shall during which Gay's opera was never know, and it is none of our written. business, but one poor old lady. was, One would not suggest that they she felt, on the point of death, 30 were good times for the poor. or she confided to a foreigner who was that. they were anything but what in-charge of certain offices concerned Would be regarded to-day og vulgar with the camp that, when she died liched pockets, short times, but all the same one feels was to examine her clothing, and the' pants would" be found' $50 worn uusteowemed sauce soak that it would be good, for a short space, to be wafed back to those which she requested be spent upon robust days when life was taken hier funeral, 'The poor dear could more naturally. when society, was think of no Happier way' of spending their efforts in this direction. The freer and easier than now, and the hier life's hoardings than upon funeral occupants, women and children, are wits and thinkers fore gathered festivities with herself as chief obhighly "appreciative of their "new "feasts of reason, and flow of, soul Jeet of the celebration: quarters, and the effect this better This age also has its wits and Another peasant vielim of war was environment will have, particularly it Is supposed that they likewise taken to a Toeal hospital, and it was, upon the young minds, can scarcely foregather and exchange epigrams and Found necessary to amputate one of thought-shots, but life moved more the man's legs, He was unconscious So two purposes have been served slowly in the days of Queen Anne when he entered hospital. and. in this excellent move: an economy Jand the following Georges, and there amputation was urgent.
Since the in rentals has been effected, and the Were fewer gnawing fears of the Palient's clothing was soiled and scheme provides much more happily future than are known to-day. Shabby the kind. hospital authorities for those distressed who are depen"
'We have to thank 'Thackeray for Supplied him with a fresh sot, and ent upon the K.DS. giving us such excellent word-pic~ Was a, well-groomed invalid' who tures of the times referred to, and came back to consciousness. Was he hho does this in the happiest manner leased though? Not at all! His frst
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