How will the meat rationing, which bowing today, work out, we wonder. 'Our household of four, not bel rear meat eaters, have ordinarily a weekly butcher's bill of 20s. to 25s. 4 Atth member of the establishment, like the Micawber twins, is still imbibing nourishment from' *"maternal founts," but we get a half-ration for her, which gives us a total weekly allowance of 8s, 10d, and bone Included in what we spend it on. Our tempers are not improved by the fact that German prisoners are allowed more of everything than we are, 'The official wind is tempered to the' shorn lamb to the extent that meals in restaurants and cooked meats may be had without ration Restraint indeed is very much to the fore. A big drive to increase British exports was announced last week by Mr, Hudson, secretary of the Overseas Trade Department. "The Englishman and his wife and children," he said, have to 0 without goods they are used to, and often without goods they require. Home consumption of many kinds of woods may have to be drastically eurlailed so that they can be sold abroad."
Thus far Mr, Hudson. Whether the foreigner will play his part by buying what we are not allowed to buy In England remains to be seen. But already the Belfast linen makers fare said to have agreed to make ne more linen for the British market unlit after the war, and it is repartee that the Yorkshire clothmakers wil! do the ike. I reflect with some satisfaction, in looking to. the day when we shall have to clothe ourselves in skins, that the country all round our village is particularly proline of rabbits, hing of an acquaintanceship with foytities galore." People kingly called her house at Cannes the "House Of Lords from the number of exalt, ShePtiae never blinded to the needs people she entertained there. Bu
poorer people, and indeed was a fast generous, woman." One_ looks Taek on the days of Maxine Eliot's triumphs with a certain regret. The Stage then was alive with spectacular iiguresirving, "Ellen Terry, Tee. down Hate, George Alexander. Teer: dainty" woud not say that we do not have good acting and good Selors and netresses now 'But they do not stand out and ili the eye in the way that Maxine Elliot's contemporaries achieved. it would be hard to 39y thow the' change has come about.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.