_Standard (Buenos Ayres)_.

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"At a meeting of the newly-formed British and Allied Waiters',
Chefs' and Employees' Union the president said that one of
their main objects was to stop enemy aliens from spoiling their
business. They must do this themselves."--_Daily Paper_.

And some of them, it must be admitted, have been making considerable
efforts in this direction.

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EDENTULOUS PERSONS.

It happened a long time ago. Higgins, Mackenzie and I, three
irresponsible subalterns, had been lent to the Government of India
for famine relief work. One Sunday we foregathered in the cool of the
evening at a dak bungalow, near the point where our three districts
met, to compare notes and to swap lies.

"How are you getting on?" I asked Higgins.

"I'm not getting on at all. I'm just stagnating. I do all my work and
draw my pay, and there's the end of it. I'm sure the regiment has
forgotten all about me, and in fact no one seems to be aware of my
existence."