gh to talk about peace when the Germans ceased to
blow up hospital ships. When Mr. BONAR LAW tactfully observed that the
Supplementary Question was better than the answer he had prepared, one felt
that the prospects of an Anglo-Irish _entente_ had appreciably improved.

When the new MINISTER FOR EDUCATION deposited upon the Table a vast packet
of manuscript, and craved the indulgence of the House if he exceeded the
usual limits of a maiden speech, I thought of the days when the headline,
"The Duke of Devonshire on Technical Education," used to strike on my
fevered spirit with a touch of infinite prose. Mr. FISHER began in rather
professorial style, but he soon revealed a glowing enthusiasm for his
subject which thawed the House. His ambition is to transform the teachers
in our elementary schools from ill-paid drudges into members of a liberal
and liberally remunerated profession. Our record in the War has shown that,
as a Naval Officer wrote to him, "there is something in your d----d Board
School education after all."

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"The bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by Miss ----
as demonsoille d'honneur."--_Hawkes Bay Herald_ (_New Zealand_).

We fear this marriage was not made in heaven.

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[Illustration: _Polite Foreigner._ "IS ZAT YOUR BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH
THAMES--YES?"

_London Dame_ ("_on her guard_"). "I HAVEN'T THE SLIGHTEST IDEA."]

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A PAPER PROBLEM.

Copy of a letter from the Reverend Laurence Longwind to the Archbishop of
CANTERBURY:--

_The Rectory_,
_Little Pottering_,
_April 1st, 1917_.

My LORD ARCHBISHOP,--I am writing to ask whether Your Grace would be so
kind as to assist me in resolving a case of conscience which, I feel sure,
must be exercising the minds and hearts of many of my brother clergy at the
present time.

The matter to which I refer is closely connected with the sad shortage of
paper. It is no doubt known to Your Grace that many ministers of the
Gospel, though capable of eloquence of a high order, _write_ their sermons.
Old sermons tend to increase and multiply at an alarming rate. I myself
have a chest of drawers literally stuffed with them. What, in Your Grace's
opinion, should be done wit