"Lady's Pleasure," a Morris-jig for two men, lays hold of you at the first bar, and again with a fresh grip and a tighter as the music slows up for the dancers to do their "capers"--all to the music of Mr. Cecil Sharp at the piano and Miss Avril at the fiddle. The object of The English Folk Dance Society is to teach rather than to perform in public. Hence the rarity of their displays, and the better reason why we should seize, when they come, our chances of assisting at these delightful exhibitions of an art whose revival has done so much to restore to the countryside the unpretentious joys that gave its name to Merrie England. * * * * * "It was the time when Henry III. was batting with Simon de Montfort and his Barons"--_Straits Times._ But not at Lord's, which has only just celebrated its centenary. * * * * * GREAT ECONOMY EFFECTED BY CO-OPERATION IN ADVERTISEMENT. [Illustration] * * * * * THE MILITANTS' TARIFF. _Etna Lodge, W._ Mrs. Bangham Smasher, having entered into partnership with the Misses Burnham Blazer, as General Agents of Destruction, begs to inform the public that the firm will prepared to execute commissions of all kinds, at the shortest notice, on the very moderate terms given below:-- L s. _d_. For breaking windows, per window 0 7 6 For howling, kicking, or biting during service in church, per howl, kick, or bite 0 10 6 For sitting on doorsteps of obnoxious persons, per hour, if fine 0 15 0 For sitting on doorsteps of obnoxious persons, per hour, if wet 1 1 0 For damaging golf greens, per green 1 11 6 For throwing shoes at magistrates in court, according to size and weight of shoe, from 2 2 0 For beating officials connected with gaols 3 3 0 For slashing and hacking valuable pictures, from 7 7 0 For bombs not intended to explode 8 8 0 For burning down a house, according to value and social position of owner, from 10 0 0 For insulting exalted Personages, per insult 10 10 0 For burning down a modern red-brick church 15 15 0 For burning down a specially valuable and interesting ancient one (eleventh and twelfth centuries extra) 21 0 0 For bombs warranted to destroy an ordinary church. 30 0 0 For bombs suited to wreck really superior Buildings, such as Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's 50 0 0 For disturbing public meetings and the general harassing and annoyance of all