assigned so remote a date to the introduction of whisky into that
country.

***

"There is no place like home," says a gossip-writer. This seems to
indicate that spring cleaning has started at his residence.

***

"It isn't every year we celebrate peace," says a correspondent in a
weekly paper. The usual custom, of course, is to celebrate peace about
once every war.

***

"A Pretty Way to Pat Butter" is the heading of one of a contemporary's
"Household Hints." They will never improve on the old-fashioned custom
of slapping it heartily on the bread.

***

"People will be able to have their strawberries and cream this
summer," said an official of the Food Ministry the other day.
Still, for association's sake it is thought that the conventional
description, "Marrows and Milk," will be retained on the menus.

***

Professor LEONARD HILL says that people working in gas factories who