In the best profiteering circles cigars are now lighted with spills made of one-pound, notes, instead of, as during the war, ten-shilling ones.
A well-known orchestral leader states that there is a serious movement afoot to popularise "The Dear Home Land" as an encore for the National Anthem.
The legal profession has long been concerned by the fact that lawyers' fees remain so fixed in a world given over to flux. It has now been decided that, although the fees shall remain the same, less value shall be given. For six-and-eightpence a solicitor will in future give only half his attention, by listening with only one ear.
Commercial Candour.
"EGGS FOR SALE.
"Why go out of —— to be swindled? Come to the —— Poultry Farm."
"IN MY GARDEN.
"April 4.—Now is a suitable time to saw sweet peas."—Daily Mirror.