Softly now, ye dockers, pardie, Cease your wrangling for a bit, Dump the seat whereon BERNHARDI Bowed his dreadful form to sit; Make no scratch however tiny When the circling crane-arm sags On the chair that rendered shiny HINDENBURG'S enormous bags. Blotting-papered, india-rubbered, Good as new, with pencils piled, Bring me the immortal cupboard Where the Hymn of Hate was filed; Who can say how oft, when brisker Beat the heart behind his ribs, TIRPITZ wiped upon a whisker Pensively these part-worn nibs? Here are _Kultur's_ very presses, Calendars that marked The Day, MAX VON BADEN'S ink-recesses, DERNBERG'S correspondence-tray; Gone the imperial years, and cooler Counsels on the Spree are planned, Still one may acquire the ruler Toyed with by a War Lord's hand. Waft them then, ye winds, let Fritz's Office furniture be mine; Each one of these priceless bits is Salvage from a Junker shrine; Breathing still the ancient essence, They shall give me, when I speak, Something of the German presence And the blazing German cheek. EVOE. * * * * * [Illustration: MANNERS AND MODES. OWING TO THE SHORTAGE AND PROHIBITIVE PRICE OF SILK STOCKINGS, THE LADIES MAYFAIR DECIDE TO DO WITHOUT THEM AND HAVE RECOURSE TO PAINT.] * * * * * [Illustration: _Mistress_ (_to maid who has just served boarders' breakfast_). "WHAT WERE THEY TALKING ABOUT, JANE?" _Jane._ "YOU, MUM."] * * * * * MANUAL PLAY. One point emerges very clearly from the murky chaos of the industrial situation to-day; and that is that the brain-worker will not for ever be content to be merely a brain-worker, thinking and thinking, hour after hour, day after day. He is beginning to realise his latent capacity for manual labour; and he demands as his right a larger opportunity for self-development, so that he too may escape from the drudgery of brain-work and rise at last to the higher, freer life of muscular exertion. There must already be many brain-workers who are well-fitted to take their place in the ranks of manual labour; and the cry goes up with increasing force that, given only that _opportunity_ which is every man's due, millions of their fellows are capable of lifting themselves to the same standard.