A memorial to SIMON DE MONTFORT has been unveiled at Evesham,where he fell in 1265. A pathetic inquiry reaches us as to whetherSIMON is yet demobilised.
We are informed that the project of adding a "Silence Room" tothe National Liberal Club is to be resuscitated.
"Small one piece houses of concrete," says The NationalNews, "are now quite common in America." The only complaint, itappears, is that some of them are just a trifle tight under thearms.
We hope that the proposed revival by a well-known theatremanager of The Sins of David so shortly after the GeneralElection is not the work of a defeated Candidate.
"Some of the discredited Radical organs," says a contemporary,"are already toying with Bolshevism." A case of "Soviet quipeut."
The report that a number of distinguished Irish Unionists havebeen ordered to choose between the LORD-LIEUTENANT's ReconstructionCommittee and the O.B.E. is causing anxiety in Dublin Clubcircles.
Weymouth Council has decided to change the name of HolsteinAvenue. We deprecate these attempts to force the Peace Conference'shand.
Mr. HENRY FORD's new paper is called The DearbornIndependent. Most independent papers, it is noticed, arethat.
"Why has the Government raised the price of new sharps?" asks"FARMER" in The Daily Mail. They may cost more, but theylook to us like the same old sharps.
"Sensation-mongering" is the public's verdict on the startlingreport circulated last week that a Civil Servant had been seenrunning.
The National Potato Exhibition, it is announced, will in futurebe held at Birmingham. The League of Political Small Potatoes, onthe other hand, has moved its permanent headquarters toManchester.
There were 21,457 fewer paupers in London last week comparedwith the same period in 1915, it is stated. All we can say is, itisn't London's fault.
A correspondent, writing to a contemporary, thinks it should beillegal for one taxi-driver to talk to another in the streets. Itwould be interesting under these circumstances to see what happenedif two rival cabs collided.
With reference to the Upper Norwood gentleman who is reported tohave arrived home early one night last week, it is not true that hetravelled by tube. He walked.
One thing after another. No sooner is influenza on the wane thanwe read of a serious outbreak of Jazz music in London.
We gather from the interviews appearing in the papers that Mr.PHILIP SNOWDEN is of the opinion that his defeat was due to theGeneral Election.
We are asked to deny the rumour that the KAISER has offered tocompete for The Daily Mail trans-Atlantic flight and hasoffered to forgo the prize.
Scientists are agreed, says Tit-Bits, that there isnothing to prevent people living for five hundred or even onethousand years. We feel, however, that in the case of certain veryobjectionable persons exemption might be given at the age of aboutforty years.
"Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i bawb Ohonynt" was the reported gr