unusual?

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[Illustration: MANNERS AND MODES.

POST-WAR SIMPLICITY IN BATHING-GEAR.]

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[Illustration: _Urchin (outside Club)._ "I BET IT WAS THE FAULT OF 'IM ON
THE RIGHT."]

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WAYS AND MEANS.

I have read somewhere that when and/or if railway fares are increased it
will cost a man travelling with his wife and two children (the children
being half-fares) as much as twenty pounds to take third-class return
tickets to St. Ives.

Presumably this refers to the Cornish St. Ives, and to show how serious the
problem will be for quite large families I need only refer my readers to
the well-known poetical riddle which is generally supposed to refer to the
Cornish St. Ives too. It will be seen at once that in the case of a
septuagamist going to or returning from St. Ives with his family the cost
will be vastly greater, even if no special luggage rates are leviable for
the carriage of excess cats.