The author of an article in The Daily Mail stated recently that nine readers of that paper had sent him poems. This of course is only to be expected of a newspaper which advocates reprisals.


According to the Vossische Zeitung washing soap is unobtainable in Berlin. Even eating soap, it is rumoured, can be obtained only at prohibitive prices.


Before the Law Society Tribunal, Mr. Jacob Epstein, the sculptor, was stated to have passed the medical test. On the other hand Mr. Epstein's Venus is still regarded as medically unfit.


A Devon lady who has just celebrated her one hundredth birthday declares that to drink plenty of water daily is the secret of good health. This is a great triumph for the milk trade.