[Illustration: _Professional Model._ "IT'S COMIN' TO SOMEFING. BURNEY JONES A DRAWRIN' FUR DAILY PAPERS! BAD ENUF WHEN 'E DRAW'D FUR THE FE-AY-TERS. I RECKON 'E'LL BE ON THE PAVEMENT NEXT." [_Note._--Sir EDWARD BURNE-JONES, who designed the costumes for the L-c-m, has made a drawing representing "Labour" for the _D-ly Chr-n-cle_.] ] * * * * * A SONNET OF SONNETS. (_A Dreadful Object-Lesson._) I've often thought I'd like to write a sonnet, I wonder, though, if I can find the way. Sometimes you muse upon your mistress--say Her eyebrow, then you poetise upon it. Maybe instead you celebrate her bonnet, A striking symphony in green or grey. And when it's done, for many and many a day, With eager eye, you ever scan and con it, Intent on seeing that it's quite correct, And free from all suspicion of defect, No inauspicious phrase, no halting line. And when the time of scrutiny is past Your thought is probably exactly mine-- Thank heaven! the horrid thing is done at last! * * * * * A CABINET COUNCIL RECORD. The _St. James's Gazette_, in giving the news of the Cabinet Council meeting last Thursday, said, "Mr. JOHN MORLEY left at 12.30, and Mr. FOWLER a few minutes later; but a messenger was almost immediately despatched to call the last-named Minister back, and he returned to the Council Room, and remained until 12.35, when the Council broke up." 12.30--Mr. MORLEY leaves. 12.33, _i.e._ "a few minutes later"--Mr. FOWLER leaves. 12.33-1/2--Messenger sent after Mr. FOWLER. 12.34-1/4--Messenger returns with Mr. FOWLER. 12.34-1/4--Discussion with Mr. FOWLER. 12.35--Cabinet Council breaks up. So you see a good deal may happen in five minutes. * * * * * [Illustration: AN AUTHORITY ON FASHION. _Jones_ (_who has come to stay the night at Little Peddlington Hall, and finds he's forgotten to bring his white ties_). "I WANT SOME WHITE EVENING TIES, PLEASE." _The Village Draper._ "I'M SORRY WE 'AVEN'T GOT ANY IN STOCK, SIR. YOU SEE THE WHITE TIE SEASON HAS 'ARDLY COMMENCED!"] * * * * * SIGNS OF THE TIMES.