"That was most interesting," she said with a sinister laugh. "But perhaps you will read _my_ palm now. You see, it was Mrs. B.'s that you have just read. She slipped her hand through under my scarf." There was a burst of laughter from everybody. Idiotic kind of joke, I call it. I can assure the writer of the Sunday articles that a knowledge of palmistry does not necessarily make one popular. I am now wondering where you can buy hand-books on spiritualism. * * * * * [Illustration: _Philosopher_ (_who has been mistaken for the football_). "THANK 'EVING THE CRICKET SEASON'LL SOON BE 'ERE!"] * * * * * "It is proposed that the family man shall be dealt with on a flat rate. Every wife will confer exemption on L100 of income."--_Spectator._ Surely our revered contemporary does not imply that the new Income Tax proposals will encourage polygamy. * * * * * [Illustration: THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE. _Polite Passenger._ "DO YOU MIND SMOKING, MADAM?" _Old Lady._ "NOT AT ALL. I'LL SMOKE WITH PLEASURE IF THEY'RE GYPPIES. CAN'T _STAND_ GASPERS."] * * * * * THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION. AN APPEAL TO ALL MEN OF GOOD WILL. The League of Nations Union is engaged in a campaign for the purpose of making the objects of the League of Nations better understood in the country at large. The chief danger that threatens the League is to be found in the apathy or unconsidered scepticism of the public; almost the sole active opposition comes from those who would substitute for it a proletarian Internationale devoted to the interests of one class only in the world, and from certain reactionaries who favour a return to the system of imperialism which was the cause of the War. In the words of HIS MAJESTY THE KING, "We fought to gain a lasting Peace and it is our supreme duty to take every measure to secure it. For that nothing is more essential than a strong and enduring League of Nations. The Covenant of Paris is a good foundation, well and truly laid. But it is and can be no more than a foundation. The nature and strength of the structure to be built upon it must depend on the earnestness and sincerity of popular support." To those, if any, who contend that the Government should be left to carry out its own propaganda for the League of Nations the obvious answer is that it is necessary for this work to be done by an independent body which can bring public pressure to bear upon the Government of the day and urge such amendments in the machinery and constitution of the League as time and experience may show to be desirable. The Union, in fact, bears to the League of Nations the same relation that the Navy League bears to the Senior Service; it is an independent body organised to educate opinion in the needs of a national cause.