"The extra hour of daylight is turning every City man into a gardener," says The Daily Mail. This must be a source of great concern to our contemporary, according to which, if we read aright, the majority of our public men do their work like gardeners.
"A wave of temperance might come by sending drunkards to prison for a second offence," said Mr. Mead at the West London Court. This remark will cause consternation in those select circles in which a second offence is usually an indication of a discriminating dilettantism.
"Mr. Hughes," says The Daily Mail, "goes to the Paris Conference with the British ideals in his pocket." Personally, we have an idea that things of this sort ought to be left in the Cabinet.
"This war," says The Fishing Gazette, "is going to provide protection to fish from the trawlers in all places where ships sink on trawling-grounds." That, however, is not the real issue, and we cannot too strongly deprecate such an unscrupulous attempt on the part of our contemporary to draw a red herring across the trail.
