To Messrs. Goodenough & Sons.
Dear Sirs,—I regret to say there is a reason for discontinuing my seed order, and I am pleased to hear you will do your best to make the trouble good; but I am half afraid you will not be able to "put it right the day you get my letter."
The fact is there is a European War going on just now, and it has sadly upset our gardening plans. Instead of having eight men (counting a husband) about the place, I am now reduced to one gardener, and he will shortly be called up in a married group, unless the flat foot he is assiduously cultivating softens the heart of the Exemption Tribunal.
I am sorry I have no time to tell you more about this War, but I must now go and dig the vegetables.
Yours faithfully,
Helena Cressingham.
"Stabbing Affray due to a Girl's Charm.
In the village of Sharwida, Zagazig district, lives a girl who is a paragraph of beauty."
Egyptian Mail.
This barely does her justice. She seems to have been quite the penny novelette.