Tactful Customer (forestalling a rebuff at a coal order office). "OF COURSE, MISS, I DON'T EXPECT THAT YOU REALLY SELL COALS, BUT I SUPPOSE YOU WOULD HAVE NO OBJECTION TO MAKING THEM A SUBJECT FOR CONVERSATION?"
Music in Mesopotamia.
Among the songs which have recently exhausted their popularity in the music-halls of Baghdad is:—
"Come into the Garden of Eden, MAUDE."
"The White Star Company, the Dominion Shipping Company, and other Atlantic lines are now arranging to employ a certain number of Sea Scouts on their boats. The shipping companies will certainly be ducky."—Manchester Guardian.
Or perhaps they may even happen upon a DRAKE.