mbers. What such nice men say must be true--at any
rate until something _truer_ is found out. I shall therefore cherish the
idea I have hitherto been under a delusion. Mind may have some
inscrutable quality wherewith to balance Matter. I remember my tallest
sister was the one who thought least. Mind and Matter are now so much
mixed, that they may be interchangeable molecules; who knows? Sir H.
ROSCOE observed also that "heat is evolved by the clashing of the
atoms." I felt how true that was when we twelve molecules quarrelled as
children.

I think, _Mr. Punch_, for a woman, I have gathered a great deal of
information in a few hours.

Yours truthfully,
THE BETTER HALF OF SOMEBODY.

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THE PECCANT MEMBER.

_A Wail by a Weary One._

PARLIAMENT sitting still--and in September!
It's all along of "the unruly member"--
That is, the tongue. But, to adapt it duly
To modern days, it should be called _Home_-Ruly!

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"NOT IN THE HUNTS."--Mr. SANDERS.

[Illustration: "ON HIS OWN HOOK!"

JUDICIOUS JOE. "A BIT ROUGH--BUT, PLEASANTER THAN _HOME WATERS_--JUST
NOW!"]

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[Illustration: STREET PUZZLE. TO FIND LAW AND ORDER.

STRAND, 10.45 P.M.]

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CIRCUS PERFORMANCES.

SIR,--I see that there is a senseless outcry against the proposed plan
of the Board of Works to build on a portion of the open space now
available at Piccadilly Circus, and I write to protest against the
pestilent heresy that prompts it. What, Sir, I ask, has the Board to do
with "beauty"? As a public body, responsible to the ratepayers, they
have only one thing to consider, and that is, "utility." Why, then,
should they not seize upon every vacant inch of ground at their
disposal, and convert it into a Central Pig Market? Such a thing could
not be better installed than at the end of Regent Street, and here is
the very site for it. Expecting to see some active steps taken to set
this on foot, I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, NOTHING IF NOT
PRACTICAL.

SIR,--Your Correspondent, "ONE WITH AN EYE TO THE SUBLIME," is right in
attacking the gross Vandalism of the Board, but, in his proposed scheme
for statues and fountains, he falls miserably short of what is really
wanted to make Piccadilly Circus what it should be; namely, the grandest
open space in Europe. The ground should be c