"On behalf of the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross
Society and the Order of St. John, I should like to thank you
and your readers most cordially for the welcome assistance you
have provided for the relief of the sick and wounded."

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"To-day in the garden:--

"Refine the onion-bed thoroughly."--_Daily Mail_.

Have you tried eau-de-Cologne?

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_NOUVELLES DE PARIS_.

_Paris, March 1919._

DEAREST POPPY,--I have a piece of news to send you from here that will
give you a veritable _frisson d'angoisse_. No, it doesn't concern the
Peace Conference; it's something far worse than that. _Figurez-vous_,
the new style of _coiffure_ is severe to the point of being absolutely
terrifying--that is to the woman who has been shivering on the brink
of thirty for any length of time.

Foreheads are coming in again--_que c'est embêtant_! I thought they'd
been abolished long ago. I wish I could get hold of the _méchant_ (for
I know it's a man) who is introducing them now. I had my hair dressed
_chez_ Manet to-day in the new style, and when I saw myself afterwards