Apparently the official decision notto issue Christmas excursion ticketsfor journeys of less than one hundredmiles will inflict some inconvenienceon the public. Several correspondentspoint out that they will be obliged totravel further than they had intended.
A newspaper correspondent describesCharlie Chaplin as being an amusingcompanion in private life. We alwayssuspect a popular comedian of havinghis lighter moments.
"For twenty years," says a contemporary,"Superintendent Spencer ofScotland Yard has been watching theKing." We hasten to add that duringall that time His Majestyhas never doneanything to excitesuspicion.
This year's Oxfordand Cambridge Rugbymatch is said to havebeen the most excitingin the memory of theoldest undergraduate.
According to TheDaily Express twenty-fivethousand Governmentofficials areon strike in Austria.People are asking whywe can't have thissort of thing in England.
Official kissing atPresidential functionsis now discontinued inFrance and visitors must shake handsin future. These curtailed amenities arestill an improvement on the Mexicancustom of exchanging revolver shots.
"Hats," says The Times' fashioncorrespondent, "are worn well on thehead." We have always regarded thisas the best place to wear a hat on.
White spats are to be fashionablethis winter, we read. In muddy weather,however, the colour-scheme may bevaried. Only the other day we sawone gentleman wearing a beautiful pairof Dalmatians.
So many singers want to run beforethey can walk, says Mr. Ben Davies.With some singers whom we haveheard, the ability to dodge as well asrun would be an advantage.
Loud cheers were given, says aBolshevist wireless message, whenLenin left Petrograd for Moscow. Wecan well believe it.
The Bolshevists now forbid men towalk through the streets with theirhands in their pockets. Hands in otherpeoples' pockets every time is theirmotto.
A palpitating writer in a Sundaypaper asks if the summit of Englishlife is being made a true Olympus or arooting-ground for the swine of Epicurus.Judging by the present exorbitantprice of a nice tender loin ofpork, with crisp crackling, we shouldsay the former.
A West Norwood man who describedhimself as a poet told themagistrate that he had twice beenknocked down by a motor-cyclist. Ouropinion is that he should have givenup poetry when he was knocked downthe first time.
Mr. Winston Churchill cannot bein two places at once, says The BristolEvening News. All the same it is adangerous thing to put him on hismettle like that.
Many people remain oblivious of theapproach of Christmas until the appearanceof mistletoe at Covent Garden.We don't wait for that; we go by theappearance in The Daily Mail of aletter announcing the discovery of primroses in Thanet.
Measures to arrest the subsidence ofthe dome of St. Paul's Cathedral have