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BAR BABIES.

[Lord Justice BANKS recently referred to the possible
establishment of a Law Courts' _crêche_, where the female
barrister might leave her young while engaged in forensic
duties.]

_From "The Law Times" of 192--._

"A Violent altercation took place yesterday in the room
allotted to infants of the Junior Bar (adjoining the Court
of Pathetic Appeal) between his nurse and little Johnnie,
the teething infant of Mrs. Flapperton, who, by the way,
we noticed being measured only the other day for silk. The
Court Husher having failed to produce silence, Mrs. Justice
Spankhurst had to intervene, and only succeeded in restoring
order by threatening to have the _crêche_ cleared."

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[Illustration: THE RECKONING.

PAN-GERMAN. "MONSTROUS, I CALL IT. WHY, IT'S FULLY A QUARTER OF WHAT
_WE_ SHOULD HAVE MADE _THEM_ PAY, IF _WE_'D WON."]

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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.