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We are glad to note an agitation for a bath-room in every artisan dwelling.
Only last week we were pained by a photograph in a weekly paper showing
somebody reduced to taking his tub in the icy Serpentine.

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Motto for Housekeepers:--

"WEIGH IT AND SEE."

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NATIONAL SERVICE.

War has taught the truth that shines
Through the poet's noble lines:--
"Common are to either sex
_Artifex_ and _opifex_."

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WILLIAM v. THE WORLD.

Doubtless you feel that such a fight
Would be a huge _réclame_ for Hundom;
That Earth would stagger at the sight
Of _Gulielmus contra Mundum;_
That WILLIAM, facing awful odds,