Purer spelling of names is what the POET LAUREATE would really like to see.
It was very touching of The Evening News to give so much space to the distressing story of the real Duchess who could not get a seat at Olympia—(surely they might have thrown out a common person to make room for her?)—but it was tactless to go on:
"'If you will bring me a couple of chairs,' said the duchess, 'I will sit down in the gangway with the greatest pleasure.'"
It makes one wonder which of our larger duchesses it was.
THE HOUSE OF PUNCH.
[He "married a princess of the House of Punch."—Excerpt front an account of the life of a former King of Kashmir.]
Hail, Master, and accept the news I bring.