Disgusted Tommy (to prisoner). "You can't 'elp bein' a bloomin' Bosch, but yer might blow aht yer chest, or 'old yer 'ead up, or somethink! Lumme! I'm ashamed to be seen walkin' with yer!"
THE LATEST SOLAR MYTH.
Mr. J. H. Willis, a Norwich scientist, writing in The Morning Post, condemns the daylight-saving movement on the ground that too much sunshine is enervating and that life is more virile in Northern latitudes.
Though the daylight-saving measure, which ingenious Willett planned
To illume the work and leisure of the toilers of the land,
Has not yet convinced the nation, or unto the mass appealed,
Still without exaggeration it can claim to hold the field.
But of late a man of science—Mr. Willis is his name—
In a mood of flat defiance bans the daylight-saving game;