LEAVING THE PARENTAL NEST.

The Bride's Father (to Bridegroom). "Oh, John, you'll take care of her, won't you!"


THE MODERN MEDUSA.

["The views and objects of the 'Commonweal' group of Anarchists are published in a journal called the Commonweal ... and by reference to which it appears that they applaud and justify the wholesale massacre of innocent persons as a legitimate method for the attainment of their ends."—Mr. Asquith.]

Gorgon Medusa of the snaky locks,

Whose loathly lair was 'midst the wave-washed rocks,

Thou wert less hideous than our monstrous, mad

Belated birth of Nemesis and Nox.