No one can answer the question, and I have not the pluck--being a law-abiding citizen--to try for myself. But I do so want to know. I ask everyone. I ask my partners at dinner (when any dinner comes my way). I ask casual acquaintances. I would ask the officials themselves, only they are so preoccupied. But the words certainly set up a very engrossing problem, and upon this problem many minor problems depend, clustering round it like chickens round the maternal hen. But I should be quite content with an answer only to the hen; the rest could wait. Yet there is an inter-dependence between them that cannot be overlooked. For example, did someone once do it and meet with such a calamity that everyone else had to be warned? Or is it merely that the authorities dislike us to be comfy? Or is it thought that the public might get so much attracted by the habit as to convert the place into a house where a dance is in progress? I wish I knew these things. Will not some Member ask for information in the House, and then--arising out of this question--get all the other subsidiary facts? We are told so many things that don't matter, such as the enormous number of Ministers in the new Government, which was formed, if I remember rightly, as a protest against too large a Cabinet; such as the colossal genius of each and every performer in Mr. COCHRANE'S theatrical companies; such as the best place in Oxford Street to contract the shopping habit; such as the breaks made day by day all through the War by billiard champions; such as the departure of Mr. G.B. SHAW on his bewildering and, one would think, totally unnecessary visit to the Front and his return from that experience; such as--but enough. I am told by the informative Press all these and more things, but no one tells me the one thing I want to know. Perhaps YOU can. I want to know why we may not sit on the Tube moving staircases, and I want to know what would happen if we did. * * * * * What to do with Our Dogs. "FOR SALE.--Pure Bred Irish Terrier Dog, right thing to wear now. Seamless, comfortable. All Wool."--_Bedford Daily Circular_. * * * * * "Bread embroideries encircle the figure."--_Glasgow Citizen_. An appropriate adornment for the bread basket, no doubt, but too extravagant in these times. * * * * * BUNNY'S LITTLE BIT. This scheme of keeping rabbits To fatten them as food Breaks up the kindly habits Acquired in babyhood; For we, as youthful scions, Were taught to love the dears And bring them dandelions And lift them by the ears. We learned how each new litter That came to Flip or Fan Grew finer and grew fitter With tea-leaves in the bran; We learned which stalks were milky And which were merely tough, What grass was good for Silky And what was good for Fluff.