DEMEANING THEMSELVES so!--Mrs. R. cannot understand our aristocracy
being constantly Chairmen at public dinners. _She_ wouldn't be a
Chairwoman for anything.

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WHERE "GHOSTS" OUGHT TO EXIST.--"_Haunt 'un_ Street, W." It's an
artistic quarter. [Is this Hornton Street? Possibly.--ED.]

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PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE ALL THE BETTER FOR BECOMING TEMPERANCE MEN.--"The
Lushais."

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[Illustration: "DIVIDED DUTY."

_Right Hon. the Minister for War_. "SURELY, MY LORD CHANCELLOR, YOU
CAN EXEMPT HIM FROM JURIES. THE 'REGULARS'--"

_Lord Chancellor_. "WELL, NO, MR. STANHOPE, I THINK NOT." (_Aside._)
"WE _MUST_ MAKE _SOME_ USE OF HIM!"]

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LIVING AND LEARNING.

MISS SYMPEL, who has never been out of London, saw an advertisement
headed "Salmon Flies" in a shop window. "Well!" she exclaimed, "I