Isn't this a _fragrant_ idea about our not being to blame for anything we do, because it's all owing to the _colours_ we live with? Everybody's _charmed_ about it. Instead of going to _lawyers_ when things run off the rails a little, if one just called in a _colour-expert_ all sorts of horrors might be avoided, for he would prove that people are like that owing to the colours of their curtains and upholsteries, and aren't to blame themselves, poor, dears, the very least little bit! The Thistledown _menage_, for instance. For ages it's been tottery, because Thistledown never understood Fluffy, and Fluffy, poor little thing, seemed to understand everybody except Thistledown. We've all been so sorry for her, for several times he's been on the point of dragging things into public. And now it turns out that nothing is Fluffy's fault and that, if she hadn't always had her own, own room done in pinky-bluey shades, she might have been quite a serious domestic character! T. says, if that's so, she'd better have her own, own room done in some other colour, but Fluffy says, No, she likes pinky-bluey shades, only he must remember, when he's inclined to be hard on her, that the pinky-blueys are to blame and not herself. Then there's old Lady Humguffin, easily the most miserly old dear who ever wore a transformation (she even has a taxi-meter thing in her own motors and anyone driving with her is expected to pay what it registers!). Colour-experts say that if it weren't for the frightfully dull dusty purple in which all her rooms are furnished she might part quite freely! So there it is, my dear! People say there's been no such important discovery since Gallienus--that fearful old man, you know, who said something moved when everyone else said it didn't. (I hardly know _how_ I know these things. Please, please don't think I'm becoming a _femme savante_!). Ever thine, BLANCHE. * * * * * TOO MUCH CHAMPIONSHIP. Once life was an easy thing. Yorkshire or Surrey or Kent were cricket champions. RANJI or W. G. headed the batting averages; RHODES or RICHARDSON the bowling. The office boy who knew these details plus the Boat Race winner and the English Cup-holders could keep his end up in conversation. He even found time to do a little work. But now! That poor brain must know that McGinty of Fulham fetched L1,000 when put up for auction, that the front line of Blackburn Rovers represents an expense of L11,321 13s. 4d., and that Chelsea have played before 71,935 spectators. He must know the champions of the First, Second, Southern, Midland, and Scottish Leagues, and the teams that gained promotion.