"They may be divided into two camps. One holds that it is not
an affair to which too much importance can be attached; the
other that it is an affair to which one cannot attach too much
importance."--_Star_.

We cannot help feeling that these two factions might safely be
accommodated in the same camp.

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[Illustration: A LONG-SIGHTED PATRIOT.

_Aunt Susie (whose charity begins as far as possible from home)._
"HAVE YOU FOUND OUT WHETHER THEY WEAR KNITTED SOCKS IN ARGENTINA?"]

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AT THE PLAY.

"ONE HOUR OF LIFE."

In Captain DESMOND COKE'S extravaganza a group of philanthropists
adopt the time-honoured procedure of ROBIN HOOD and his Greenwood
Company, robbing Dives on system to pay Lazarus. Their economics are
sounder than their sociology, which is of the crudest. They specialize
in jewellery--useless, barbaric and generally vulgar survivals--which
they extract from shop and safe, and sell in Amsterdam, distributing
the proceeds to various deserving charitable agencies. In this
particular crowded hour of life the leader of the group, a fanatical
prig with hypnotic eyes, abducts the beautiful _Lady Fenton_, with