SO SOON FORGOT.
[A cinema has been showing a picture of M. PADEREWSKI, bearing the legend, "The new President of Poland: once a world-famed violinist.">[
The President of POLAND
Was born to place and power;
Yet, ere he found his mission
In filling this position,
He was a great musician—
Men say so to this hour.
But, dash it! while the whole land
Admits his old repute,
It wonders, "Did this fellow,
At whom Queen's Hall would bellow,
Perform upon the 'cello,
Or did he play the flute?"
The day AUGUSTUS JOHN is
Created Duke of Wales,
His countrymen will never
Stop boasting of how clever
He is at Art, whatever
(Though Burlington still rails).
But one small detail gone is
From their forgetful nuts;
Their recollection's shady—
Did JOHN'S artistic heyday
Mean costumes for The Lady
Or things for Comic Cuts?
When HALL CAINE rules a nation
As Superman of Man,
His subjects will assure us
In daily dance and chorus:
"Ere HALL presided o'er us,
Men read him as they ran.
For once his circulation
Spread over Seven Seas."
Yet memory by chance errs
In these ecstatic dancers—
Oh, did he edit Answers,
Or write "Callisthenes"?
Our Helpful Contemporaries.
"But the most pressing of all the questions with which the Peace Congress has to deal is the settlement of terms of peace with Germany."—Nottingham Guardian.
"LIFE'S LITTLE MARVELS.
"A family of eight was stated to be living on £3 a week in the Bow County Court, and counsel said it was a marvel how they did it."—Bradford Daily Argus.
It is supposed that they take it in turns to sleep on the Bench.
"A Republic is derported to have been declared at Zagazig. In Cairo stdikes have added to the difficulties of the public, the latest being one by the cabddivers. Crowds ottempted to storm the Government printing works, but were dispersed by the military."—Daily Paper.
Not, however, until they had worked some havoc among the type.