Some idea of the amount of distressthere is among Stock Exchange men,owing to the continued depression, maybe gathered from the fact that a numberof members, anxious to get to Brightonon their recent holiday on the 1st inst.,walked all the way.
While there would seem to be no"Picture of the Year," the canvaswhich appears to attract anyhow mostfeminine attention is the Hon. JohnCollier's "Clytemnestra," with itsguess at the fashion of to-morrow—thelow-neck blouse carried a little bitfurther.
A publication entitled Pictures andthe Picturegoer has madeits appearance, and, please,we want to know what aPicturegoer is. Suffragettes,it is true, are apt to go forpictures, but we have neverknown anyone merely gopictures.
Sculptors submittingdesigns for a statue ofPeter the Great, to beset up at the Winter Palace,St. Petersburg, are requiredby the conditions not onlyto produce a statue whichwill be recognized by theman in the street as that ofthe monarch, but it mustalso convey the idea thathe spent his last days inthe Palace. Possibly thismight be effected by hiswearing his linen collarinside out, plainly showingthe marking, "Peter the Gt. WinterPalace."
In the duel which took place lastweek between M. Caillaux and M.d'Allières the ex-Finance Ministerfired in the air. As a result, we hear,aviation societies all over France areprotesting against what they considermay develop into an exceedingly dangerouspractice.
As regards the result of the duel, M.d'Allières was certainly the moresuccessful of the two. He fired at theground and hit it. M. Caillaux aimedat the sky and missed it.
The House of Commons has passedthe second reading of a Bill to enableHealth Resorts and Watering Placesto spend a portion of their rates onadvertising. The urgent necessity forsuch a measure would appear to beproved by the fact that newspapersof every shade of political opinionapprove it.
"Democracy," says Lord Haldane,"is rapidly finding its feet." But itwill not gain much if at the same timeit loses its head.
"A rector," we read, "has writtento his bishop and to his wife announcinghis elopement with the wife of oneof his parishioners." This is a littleact of courtesy which some men wouldnot have thought of.
The London County Council proposesto allow on the Aldwych sitea circular experimental railway on theKearney high-speed mono-rail system.It seems strange that what is undoubtedlythe most rugged and wildesttract of forest land in London shouldfor so long have been without railwayfacilities. To nature-lovers, however,the proposal is as distasteful as the ideaof a railway up Borrowdale.
We had thought that races betweenomnibuses had, owing to an entire lackof encouragement on the part of thepolice, died out, but we see that theL.C.O.C. is now advertising "AnotherMotor-Bus Derby."
The police are said to be viewingwith some apprehension the spread ofhabits of cleanliness among our house-breakers.Last week, for instance, someburglars who paid a visit to a Birminghamfirm, after opening a safe andremoving its contents, obtained a bucket