ousand. I have tried several artists,
but most of them couldn't even get a hundred on to the page, and those
who did always had more legs on one side than the other, which is quite
wrong. So I have had to dispense with the pictures.

* * * * *

ANOTHER IMPENDING APOLOGY.

"Ainsi parla l'editeur du _Daily Herald_. Lord Lansbury a toujours ete
l'enfant cheri et terrible du parti travailliste anglais."--_Gazette de
Lausanne._

* * * * *

"WANTED.

Small nicely furnished house, nice locality, for nearly married couple,
from August 1st."--_Johannesburg Star._

We trust that no one encouraged them with accommodation.

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[Illustration: THE MAKING OF A REFORMER.

SHOWING THE INFECTIOUS INFLUENCE OF ORATORY.]

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THE MUDFORD BLIGHT.

Mary settled her shoulders against the mantel-piece, slid her hands into
her pockets and looked down at her mother with faint apprehension in her
eyes.

"I want," she remarked, "to go to London."

Mrs. Martin rustled the newspaper uneasily to an accompanying glitter of
diamond rings. Mary's direct action slightly discomposed her, but she
replied amiably. "Well, dear, your Aunt Laura has just asked you to
Wimbledon for a fortnight in the Autumn."

Mary did not move. "I want," she continued abstractedly, "to _live_ in
London."

Mrs. Martin glanced up at her daughter as if discrediting the authorship of
this remark. "I don't know what you are thinking of, child," she said
tartly, "but you appear to me to be talking nonsense. Your father and I
have no idea of leaving Mudford at present."

"I want," Mary went on in the even tone of one hypnotised by a foregone
conclusion, "to go and live with Jennifer and write--things."

Mrs. Martin's gesture as she rose expressed as much horror as was
consistent with majesty.

"My dear Mary," she said coldly, "let me dispose of your outrageous
suggestion before it goes any further. You appear to imagine that because
you have been earning a couple of hundred a year in the Air Force during
the War you are still of independent means. Allow me to remind you that you
are not. Also that your father and I are unable and unwilling to bear the
expenses of two establishments. Please consider the matter closed."

She swept from the room. Mary whistled softly to herself, then she