[Illustration: _Father._ "YES, TOMMY, WHATEVER YOU ATTEMPT THERE IS
ONE WAY TO LEARN, AND THAT IS BY BEGINNING AT THE VERY BOTTOM."

_Tommy._ "WHAT ABOUT SWIMMING?"]

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"Many of the suburbs and outlying districts of London are
experiencing something like a plague of tiny stinging flies
similar to, but even more veracious than, the familiar
'midge.' The plague is not confined to low-lying
districts."--_Daily Paper._

The very last place in which we should expect to find anything
"veracious."

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From a Paris letter:--

"The Majestic and the Astoria, and the other innumerable
hotels which house the Allied delegations, are full of the
white faces of tired secretaries, whose principles have
departed, or, still worse, returned."--_Evening Paper_.

We protest against this reflection on the morals of our delegation.

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TO PEACE, ON HER CELEBRATIONS.