The Commercial Touch.

"Presiding at the concert given in connection with the —— Art Club's annual exhibition of oil and water-colours, Mr. —— congratulated the club on the quality of its paintings, which, he thought, were remarkably cheap when cognisance was taken of the present high prices of materials."—Provincial Paper.

This critic has, as the Art jargon puts it, "a nice feeling for values."


"HOW I DIFFER FROM MY MOTHER."

By A Modern Woman.

'Women differ by the width of Heaven from what their mothers were.'—MR. JUSTICE DARLING.

"I do not smoke and I do not wear bare-back dresses, but I agree with Mr. Justice Darling—there is the width of Heaven between my mother and I."—Evening News.

Let's hope so, in the matter of grammar.