According to an American paper, a lawyer has left New York for Mexico, in order to try to explain to the inhabitants the meaning of Peace and the benefits to be derived from joining the League of Nations. We understand he has made full arrangements for leaving a widow and two young children. * * * Our heart goes out to the tenant of an experimental paper-house who discovered, on going up-stairs, that his two-year-old son in a fit of ungovernable passion had torn up his nursery. * * * A man has written to _The Daily Mail_ advocating the alteration of the calendar to thirteen months of twenty-eight days each, _with two Christmas Days in Leap Year_. The writer--to do him justice--did not sign himself "Paterfamilias." * * * The New Poor Dance Club, which has opened in the West End, is having its vicissitudes. Last week, it is reported, a distinguished stranger mistook a waiter for one of the members, and the waiters have threatened to strike if it occurs again. * * * Los Angeles, California, says a New York cable, is suffering from an unprecedented crime wave. A proposal by President CARRANZA to draw a _cordon sanitaire_ round the place has not yet reached Washington. * * * "Are dark people cleverer than fair?" asks a contemporary. These clumsy attempts to destroy the Coalition spirit are too transparent to be successful. * * * Intending visitors to the Zoological Gardens in Ph[oe]nix Park, Dublin, are now required to get a permit from the military authorities. A daring attempt by a Sinn Feiner to approach the Viceregal Lodge under cover of a cassowary is said to be responsible for the order. * * * The ex-Kaiser, it is stated, has asked the Prussian Government if there would be any objection to his settling in Peru as a cattle-raiser. The probability that the Crown Prince will settle in France for a spell as a watch-lifter is thought to have fired the ex-Imperial imagination. * * * A report from Chicago states that, as a result of the prevailing taste for wood-alcohol, a number of citizens successfully revived the ancient custom of seeing the Aurora Borealis in. * * * * * [Illustration: "HURRY UP, JOHNSON--WHAT A TIME YOU TAKE!" "I CAN'T GET THROUGH THESE BEASTLY TROOPS."] * * * * * "The charm of a pleasing figure depends upon an uneasy fitting corset." _Advt. in Canadian Paper._ _Il faut souffrir pour être belle._ * * * * * "There would also be great competition for carniferous timber from other countries." _Scotch Paper._ Not so much now that the meat-shortage is over. * * * * * "Dundee leads the way in Scotland in a new phase of sport for ladies. The innovation was created by the City Magistrates to-day, when an application for a billiard-room license in the new City Hall was granted.