We cannot agree with the actor who complains that his manager forbids him to wear his armlet on the stage. The sympathies of the audience might be entirely deranged by the discovery that the elderly villain was an attested patriot while the young and beautiful hero was either ineligible or a slacker.
Describing the depressed condition of the laundry trade a witness at the Clerkenwell County Court said, "We are eight million double collars short every week." It is shrewdly conjectured that they are in the neighbourhood of the Front.
Nothing in the course of his Balkan pilgrimage is reported to have pleased the Kaiser so much as a steamer-trip on the Danube. It was looking so sympathetically blue.
The Government is going to close Museums and Picture-galleries to the public. No one shall accuse us of being Apostles of Culture.
It is said that the Australian and New Zealand soldiers now in London are very fond of visiting the British Museum, and take a particular interest in the Egyptian antiquities. But it is not true that they now refer to England as "The Mummy Country."