An Optimist.

"Gentlewoman, bright, owing to War, offers Companionship in Return for hospitality, laundry, and travelling expenses."

Morning Paper.


"An attack on the compulsory vice bill now before the House of Lords was made by the president of the conference, William C. Anderson."—New York Globe.

Our American contemporary is misinformed. The measure in question seeks to make virtue compulsory—the virtue of patriotism.


"The following French official communiqué was issued this afternoon:—3.25.—Bouton Rouge 1, Dordogne 2, Kitch 3. Eight ran."— Evening Times and Echo.

We are sorry that K. of K. didn't do better.