IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. I.—PROPOSED HAIR-DRESSING ROOM.

"A series of alterations has, during the recess, been in active progress within the Houses of Parliament," &c.... "Space will be set apart to provide dressing-room accommodation and a hair-dressing saloon."—Times, Wednesday, October 17.


MAYENNAISE VERSUS MAYONNAISE.

(Vide last Number of "Punch.")

Dear Punch, your praise Of Mayonnaise Is certainly most telling: But don't it seem That such a theme Deserves the proper spelling?

I sometimes look At a cookery book By A. Dumas, the younger; And find he says That Mayennaise (A certain cure for hunger)

Should be spelt so; Not with an o, But like Mayenne, that city, Whose siege's fame Supplied the name Mis-spelt now; more's the pity