* * * * * From a parish magazine:-- "I know 'the war' still continues but these do not explain everything. The large water tank at the schools is for sale--price £5 10s. The sermons and as far as possible the music and hymns on 21st (Trafalgar Day) will bear on the work of our incomparable Navy." It is believed in the village that the parson is suffering from a rush of Jumble Sales to the head. * * * * * HERBS OF GRACE. SWEET WOODRUFF. VII. Not for the world that we know, But the lovelier world that we dream of Dost thou, Sweet Woodruff, grow; Not of this world is the theme of The scent diffused From thy bright leaves bruised; Not in this world hast thou part or lot, Save to tell of the dream one, forgot, forgot. Sweet Woodruff, thine is the scent Of a world that was wise and lowly, Singing with sane content, Simple and clean and holy, Merry and kind As an April wind, Happier far for the dawn's good gold Than the chinking chaffer-stuff hard and cold. Thine is the odour of praise In the loved little country churches; Thine are the ancient ways Which the new Gold Age besmirches; Cordials, wine And posies are thine, The adze-cut beams with thy bunches fraught, And the kist-laid linen by maidens wrought. Clean bodies, kind hearts, sweet souls, Delight and delighted endeavour, A spirit that chants and trolls, A world that doth ne'er dissever The body's hire And the heart's desire; Ah, bright leaves bruised and brown leaves dry, Odours that bid this world go by. W.B. * * * * * "Once or twice Mr. Dickens has taken the place of circuit judge when the King's Bench roll has been repleted."--_Evening Paper_. This, of course, was before the War. Our judges never over-eat themselves nowadays. * * * * * From a list of current prices:-- "Brazil nuts 1s. 2d., Barcelona nuts 10d. per lb.; demons 1½d."--_Derbyshire Advertiser_. No mention being made of the place of origin of the last-named, it looks very much as if there had been some trading with the enemy. * * * * * What America says to-day-- "Feminist circles are greatly interested in the announcement made by Dr. Sargeant, of Harvard University, that women make as good soldiers as men."--_Sunday Pictorial_. Canada does to-morrow-- "The Canadian Government has issued a proclamation calling up ... childless widows between the ages of 20 and 34 comprised in Class 1 of the Military Service Act."--_Yorkshire Evening Paper_ * * * * * [Illustration: _Mike (in bath-chair)_. "DID YE SAY WE'LL BE TURNING BACK, DENNIS? SURE THE EXERCISE WILL BE DOING US GOOD IF WE GO A BIT FURTHER."]