appeared more than over confident of success."--_Daily Paper_.

"General admiration and sympathy is extended to Mr. Tawker
due to his frankness regarding his progress towards making
the trans-ocean flight."--_Sunday Paper_.

We trust our contemporaries are not in a conspiracy to represent the
gallant aviator as a hot-air man.

* * * * *

"Presently, when aviation becomes a commonplace, the fares
will come down."--_Daily Dispatch_.

That's just what makes us so nervous.

* * * * *

PEACE TERMS.

BEING SOME LETTERS OF MRS. PARTINGTON TO HER SISTER.

[Conferences between mistresses and servants are being held in
various parts of the country to discuss terms of peace in the
domestic world.]

_Puddleford_.

DEAR MOIRA,--We haven't got a servant yet, but we are clutching at
a new hope. There is to be a conference here between mistresses