Than our glad rites, the Princess not so tender
As was myself, who always took that part;
I cannot think the KING,
Nor gorgeous Lords, nor Officers of State,
Nor seedy people peering through the gate,
Felt half so proud or so affectionate
As those far friends when _we_ arranged the thing.

A.P.H.

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DISCONCERTING NEWS FOR THE KAISER.

Woman to Vicar: "Please Sir will you write to our George in France?
'is number is a 'undred and eleven million four thousand and six."

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"The inmates of buses have changed, too. All classes travel
side by side, the perspiring flower girl, with her heavy
basket of roses, the charwoman clutching her morning purchase
of fish, the daintily dressed lady going out to dinner,
&c."--_The Daily Chronicle_.

A very early dinner, apparently; perhaps with the charwoman.

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[Illustration: FREEDOM RENEWS HER VOW. AUGUST 14, 1917.]