"Every British working man has as much right as any Member ofParliament to be paid £400 a year," states a well-knownLabour paper. We have never questioned this for a moment.
"Women," says a technical journal, "are a source of grave dangerto motorists in crowded city streets." It is feared in somequarters that they will have to be abolished.
"Are you getting stout?" asks a Sunday contemporary. Only veryoccasionally, we regret to say.
The heat was so oppressive in London the other day that ataxi-driver at Euston Station was seen to go up to a pedestrian andask him if he could do with a ride. He was eventually pinned downby some colleagues and handed over to the care of hisrelatives.
"I do not care a straw about Turkey," writes Mr. LOVAT Fraser inThe Daily Mail. It is this dare-devil spirit which has madeus the nation we are.
Superstition in regard to marriage is dying out, says a West Endregistrar. Nevertheless the superstition that a man who getsmarried between January 1st and December 31st is asking for troubleis still widely held.
Mr. VAN INGEN, a New York business man, has just started tocross the Atlantic for the one hundred and sixtieth time. It is notknown whether the major ambition of his life is to leave New Yorkor go back and have a last look at it.
"There is no likelihood," says the FOOD-CONTROLLER, "of cheeserunning out during the coming winter." A pan of drinking water leftin the larder will always prevent its running out and bitingsomeone during the dog-days.
Sympathetic readers will be glad to hear that the littlesixpence which was found wandering in Piccadilly Circus has beengiven a good home by an Aberdeen gentleman.
Aeroplane passengers are advised by one enterprising weekly notto throw bottles out of the machine. This is certainly good advice.The bottles are so apt to get broken.
Germany, it is expected, will sign the Peace treaty this once,but points out that we must not allow it to happen again.
Of two burglars charged at Stratford one told the Bench that heintended to have nothing further to do with his colleague infuture. It is said that he finds it impossible to work with himowing to his nasty grasping ways.
Sixty-seven fewer babies were born in one Surrey village lastyear than in previous years. It would be interesting to have theirnames.
A grocer, according to a legal writer, is not compelled to takegoods out of the window to oblige a customer. The suggestion that agrocer is expected to oblige anybody in any circumstances iscertainly a novelty.
Uxbridge, says The Evening News, has no bandstand. Norhave we, but we make no fuss about it.
The Bolshevists in Russia, we are told, are busy sowing seeds ofsedition. For some time it has been suspected that the Bolshevistswere up to no good.
HERBERT WELSH, aged sixty-seven, has started to walk from NewJersey to New Hampshire, U.S.A., a distance of five hundred miles.In the absence of fuller details we assume that HERBERT must havelost his train.
"Postage stamps," says a weekly snippets paper, "can be obtainedat all post-offices." This should prove a boon to those who haveletters to write.
It is thought if a certain well-known judge does not soon ask,"What