---, sixty-seven, ---- road, South Tottenham, a young girl, was
a witness in a London county court when the boom of guns and detonation
of bombs were heard."--_Daily Paper._

Our English girls to-day are only as old as they feel.

* * * * *

"Mrs. A. Thomson writes a vigorous protest against the carelessness
with which the W.F.L. resolution urging the Prime Minister to make
Woman Suffrage an integral part of the Bill, was acknowledged on his
behalf. The acknowledgment was as follows:--

"'I am directed by the Prime Minister to acknowledge the receipt of the
resolution which you have forwarded on the subject of the formation of
a Maternity Department in the new Ministry of Health.'"--_The Vote._

But was it carelessness, or humour?

* * * * *

HEART-TO-HEART TALKS.

(_Herr Schultze and Herr Mueller, privates in a Prussian regiment of
Infantry._)

_Schultze._ Leave will soon be over now and we shall have to go back to the
fighting.

_Mueller._ Yes; it is not a very cheerful prospect.

_Schultze._ No; that is a very true saying. And, what is more, there seems
no possible end to this War, though (_dropping his voice and looking
round_) we all hate it from the bottom of our hearts.

_Mueller._ Yes, we all hate it. Indeed the hatred between me and the War
gets worse and worse every day. I don't care who hears me.

_Schultze._ Don't be too bold; one never knows who may be listening.

_Mueller._ It is to become mad. Why did we ever let the ALL-HIGHEST MAJESTY
begin such a war? We were all so comfortable, and then suddenly the
Austrian ARCHDUKE gets himself murdered and, piff-paff, we Germans must go
to war against Russia and France and England. I am very sorry for the
ARCHDUKE, but there were other Archdukes to supply his place, and even if
there had not been I do not think he himself was worth the four millions of
killed, wounded and prisoners whom we have lost since the guns began to go
off.

_Schultze._ It is terrible to think of. And the sausages get worse and
worse, and the beer costs more and more and is not like beer at all.

_Mueller._ And the English have good guns and plenty of them, and know
colossally well how to use them; and they have millions of men--more than
we have; and their soldiers are brave--almost as brave as our own soldiers.
They have certainly won some victories, it seems.

_Sch