This subject must be far and away the most popular at the present time, and we have an idea that the finest experts are not attached to the Medical profession.


Mother (to little girl engaged in grooming with a nail-brush a newly-born kitten). "Oh, Maisie, I don't think that the mummy-cat would like to see you doing it that way."

Maisie. "Well, Mummy, I couldn't lick it."


HIS LADY FRIEND.

When the post came in Private Grimes was sitting alone, hammering a strip of metal with a stone. During the eight months that this solitary and silent man had been in Flanders he had not received so much as a picture-postcard, and he expected nothing now. But to the surprise not only of himself but of all the men who saw it, this post brought him a letter:—

"Deer Henery she is in the best off helth i thort you mite be wunderin' the wether heer is shokin' As it leeves me at presant Bill."