"In the words of Bacon, it should be 'read, marked, learned and
inwardly digested.'"--_Financial Paper_.

Our gay contemporary does not tell us whether it was before or after
completing the works usually attributed to SHAKSPEARE that BACON compiled
the Book of Common Prayer.

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THE FLAPPER.

[Dr. ARTHUR SHADWELL, in the January _Nineteenth Century_, in his article
on "Ordeal by Fire," after denouncing idlers and loafers and shirkers,
falls foul "above all" of the young girls called flappers, "with high
heels, skirts up to their knees and blouses open to the diaphragm, painted,
powdered, self-conscious, ogling: 'Allus adallacked and dizened oot and a
'unting arter the men.'"]

Good Dr. ARTHUR SHADWELL, who lends lustre to a name
Which DRYDEN in his satires oft endeavoured to defame,
Has lately been discussing in a high-class magazine
The trials that confront us in the year Nineteen Seventeen.

He is not a smooth-tongued prophet; no, he takes a serious view;
We must make tremendous efforts if we're going to win through;
And though he's not unhopeful of the issue of the fray
He finds abundant causes for misgiving and dismay.

Our optimistic journals his exasperation fire,
And the idlers and the loafers stimulate his righteous ire;