Ym not golig.to tale about, food ralloning—of which you will be bored stine-but apropos of the-theatre itis FRotlccabte thay the Food atinister has ad to invoke the help of those. (we favourite sage end redia cross-talk Stary, Geet aid Daly, He. fred ersiade the House. of Commons recently that rationing has actually help-fed housewives—on which topic house: vives heve their own. ideas, and the House, too, seemed doubtful." So Gert certainly ought to tax mailie ba and the people who order a lunch of old sausage and a glass of hot mill Can you beat It? Yet I assure you Thave seen it dot But Sir John hi trid, owing to the static nature of the ut, has spent considerably less than ta pected 1n3y, September. So. he may be merciful, One odd thing that the motor tax which was expect. ed tov put down halt: the cara, in' Bagland hag yielded about 12 millions more than was expected, suppose the reason is, as given me By a friend who drives a powerful car, that the price of second-hand cars is-so bad that people. feel they may aswell pay. the. tax and Keep the car. I Walked down Great Portland Street the other day, Before the war it was risky to do so; and If you paused for a moment some one had sold you a ar and pushed you off in it before you knew. where you were, Now fine-tenths of the shops are empty and to Tet,"
But trade is jocking up. There ai plenty of customers in the shops, ea that the export of British toys has ularly doubled since the war began. We were already challenging Germany in this respect before the war, when she was the world's largest toy Now she is nowhere War toys are popular but tien more so are. dolls, "This is an evident instance of Emerson's law of compensation. The more brutally the world behaves the more in hours of telixation we think of softer things.
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