The Sphinx has been requested to furnish an explanation.

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OUR INDOMITABLES.

"THE ENGLISH GIRL.

"STANDING IN WITNESS-BOX WITHOUT A QUIVER.

"Rose ----, sixty-seven, ---- road, South Tottenham, a young girl, was
a witness in a London county court when the boom of guns and detonation
of bombs were heard."--_Daily Paper._

Our English girls to-day are only as old as they feel.

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"Mrs. A. Thomson writes a vigorous protest against the carelessness
with which the W.F.L. resolution urging the Prime Minister to make
Woman Suffrage an integral part of the Bill, was acknowledged on his
behalf. The acknowledgment was as follows:--

"'I am directed by the Prime Minister to acknowledge the receipt of the
resolution which you have forwarded on the subject of the formation of
a Maternity Department in the new Ministry of Health.'"--_The Vote._

But was it carelessness, or humour?