[Illustration: REAL PROBLEMS AT THE FRONT.

_First C.O._ "_I_ TELL YOU WHAT. FIND ME A MAN WHO CAN COOK CUTLETS
DECENTLY, AND YOU SHALL HAVE OUR SECOND-BEST PIERROT."]

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TACTLESS.

"THANKSGIVING SERVICE on Sunday, February 18th, Canon ----'s last day
as Vicar of ----."--_Midland Paper._

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ANOTHER GLIMPSE OF THE OBVIOUS.

"There is very general agreement in banking circles in the City as to
the satisfactory character of the response which has already been made
to the new War Loan, but good though it has been, the total must still
be small compared with the need, and must fall infinitely short of the
figure aimed at, which, of course, is unlimited."--_Sunday Times._

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THE SMILE OF VICTORY.

[According to Reuter's Washington Correspondent, women suffragists have
of late regularly picketed the White House. When President WILSON
appears "they deploy so that he cannot fail to see their banners. The
President smiles broadly and passes on."]