London, Dec. 12.
ts to be supposed that the capacity of the human race for in venting new ways of amusing itself strictly limited. King Solomon found that out 3000 years ago and Toft us that singularly bitter yet majestic book Ecclesiastes to prove It And in the offices of "Punch" it said that the life of a joke is 12 years, after which It can safely be repeated.
So it is-interesting to see how the entertainments of our grandfathers are coming back. Just after the War, everyone went mad on Put and Take, hich the Romans knew as "Penk and "Aufer," which was popular at) the Merry Monarch's court, and, then known as Teetotum, was' the has of an exciting gamb boys in Miss Edgeworth's "Frank" A Tittle time ago there was a brief revival of Spillikins under some new ame that I have forgotten" And backgammon, beloved of Mrs. Battle's recipes for syllabus, trifle, tipsy crile, ratafias, cowslip wine, frumenty and the Ike. The most interesting is the revival of chocolate as a drink, But the invitations sent out for "Chocolate and sherry" parties are surely quite the wrong way of treating this noble overage, the right time for which surely in bed, about 11 am. when the day has warmed up os the saying is. And of course it ought to be served by a litle negro boy, Ina brightly coloured silk coat and urban, But probably the Labour Parly would raise on outery if that particular form. of service were revived.
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