With the letter postage at twopence, we read, it is in many cases just as cheap to telephone. And in some cases just as quick.
"Will Wilde meet Beckett?" asks a headline. We can only say that we do not intend to stand in their way.
General von Kluck has been telling somebody that he lost the battle of the Marne by a fluke. As we can't have the War over again we must let the matter remain at that.
According to an evening paper a temperance speaker fainted during a procession in a Kentish town, and was immediately carried into a shop and brought round by whisky. The report that on being informed of this fact he again went off into a faint is happily without foundation.
A man aged seventy-six was charged last week with threatening to shoot a West-End family of six. It is said that his parents intend to plead the baneful influence of the cinema.