We have it on the poet's authority that "Love knows no means or measure," and certainly means seem to have been no object. with one lover in the Far East. An interest-g engagement has been announced Japan betwee a Britisher in yo and his la in London. Pre liminaries having been conducted long ago, we learn that the last stages of the engagement were concluded telephone, and the man at the Tokyo end of the. wire paid Yen 200 for the conversation which made him the happiest man in the world. The charge is Y. 20 for two minutes, 30 he must have made his meaning clear was believed to be lack of Schooling, but then followed a period when it was thought rather smart to be a bad speller.
d Girls boasted about not being able to spell as they foolishly boasted about not being able to boil an egg—it was implied that such ignorance indicated a higher thought somehow! Now times are changing, and spelling is coming into its own. One would have"thought that Harvard and Oxford knew all there was to be known about the art, but apparently not, and the spelling contest between the two Universities has been interesting in that it has revealed that the really-ought-to-knows have weaknesses like the rest zh correct spelling has "its uses, it is perhaps more important, in this workaday world, to know how to do things rather than how to spell them. There are times when ern tion and academic lore can do nothing to cope with practical matters.
You have only to be a woman-driver on a lonely road, miles away from the nearest garage to realize I mean. Or, if you have a difficult screw or bolt to deal t matters not how you can construe w spell, the meanest male with brawn enough to cope with your difficulties can be an angel in disguise.
Mannin makes one of her complain that there is teo much education in the world and not 2ncugh common sense: too much alliance with the trimmings of cul-ure, and not enough knowledge of he plain rough road of life which will get one somewhere. All the me, spelling has its uses, so try on your children on the next wet some of the words included Were set for the International con-lest:
"An embarrassed pedlar met a harassed saddler in a cometer; ing the symmetry of his uncle' with unparalleled costas; If one of your brood gets it all correct the first time, watch his future carefully, for he has not made the best of what RIS. calls those lack-lustre hours between waking and sleep" in his class! west-end of London authority on chocolate making, Robert Salzman.
For English chocolate: Three pints make 12 cups.
This is made entirely at the buffet.
Place milk in sauce-
Pan on stove when warm sprinkle in 12 measures (heaped tablespoon-tuis) ' prepared chocolate.
"When boiling whip with egg whisk for three minutes, as this makes it creamy and frothy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.