The motley Muse's maundering nous Cares nothing what the union rate is, If any young things want a house I'll build the kickshaw for them gratis. Evoe. * * * * * Another Impending Apology. "We are glad to hear that Canon N. S. Jeffrey has latterly made such good progress that he is now able to bet downstairs each day."--_Gazette-News for Blackpool._ * * * * * "She was slightly troubled with sore chins, and went to the post in scratchy fashion." _Sporting Chronicle._ No wonder. * * * * * "THE SINCEREST FLATTERY." [Illustration: General John Redmond. "ULSTER KING-AT-ARMS, IS IT? WE'LL BE AFTHER SHOWIN' 'EM WHAT THE _OTHER_ THREE PROVINCES CAN DO!" [See _Punch_, May 6, 1914.]] * * * * * [Illustration: Our large stores pride themselves on never bothering a customer to purchase. Some of them go even further and seem to show positive indifference. Above we see a customer resorting to extreme measures to secure attention.] * * * * * AN ADVANCE FINALE. There is an idea already fermenting in the brains of many publishers that their present method of printing personal assurances as to the merits of their new productions is unsatisfactory. It is felt that these eulogies are open to the suspicion of prejudice and should be replaced, or supplemented, by the advance publication of the final chapter of the author's work. _Mr. Punch_, anxious to promote this excellent change by the publication of a specimen finale, has pleasure in anticipating the fifty-first, and concluding, chapter of Mrs. H-mphry W-rd's projected romance, _The Winning of Aurora_; and he is convinced that his readers will not rest till they have secured the remaining fifty chapters.