Journalistic Enterprise.
"NEWS BY TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE.
"To-day is Pancake Day."—Daily Mail, March 4.
"HIGH-CLASS FISH DURING THE LENTEN SEASON.
"All kinds arrive daily direct from the coast, and prices the maximum when possible."—Advt. in Provincial Paper.
To judge by our own fishmonger, they always are possible.
From the report of a prosecution for selling eggs above the controlled price:
"Mr. ——, for the defence, contended that the lay mind could assume that new-laid eggs laid by the vendor's fowls were not within the scope of the Order."—Birmingham Daily Post.
In a poultry case the opinion of the "lay mind" should have been conclusive, but the Bench decided otherwise.
"When is the State going to help mothers with large families? If the cost of living has increased 100 per cent., then for eight persons the increase is 800 per cent.
"How many mothers with eight in family have received an increase of 800 per cent. in their income since 1914?—W.W., London."—Daily Sketch.
"W.W., London," should not be allowed to squander his gifts on the daily Press. We want a statistician like this to tot up the German indemnity.