Oak logs will warm you well If they're old and dry; Larch logs of pine woods smell, But the sparks will fly. Beech logs for Christmas-time, Yew logs heat well; "Scotch" logs it is a crime For anyone to sell. Birch logs will burn too fast, Chestnut scarce at all; Hawthorn logs are good to last If cut in the Fall. Holly logs will burn like wax, You should burn them green; Elm logs like smouldering flax, No flame to be seen. Pear logs and apple logs, They will scent your room; Cherry logs across the dogs Smell like flowers in bloom. But Ash logs, all smooth and grey, Burn them green or old; Buy up all that come your way, They're worth their weight in gold. * * * * * "GIRL EYE-MAKER." _Picture-title in Daily Paper._ Perhaps we ought to mention that the eyes she makes are artificial, not "glad." * * * * * Our Discreet Press. "Mystery surrounds the Russo-Polish peace negotiations at Riga. According to a Central News message from Warsaw Marshal Pilsudski has had a conference with??????????, the Premier, as to whether demobilisation should take place shortly."--_Evening Paper._ * * * * * "When he [Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree] was prepared to play _Martin Chuzzlewit_ he wrote to me (and doubtless explained to others) that he was going to present _Mr. Micawber_ as 'a sort of fairy.'"--_Sunday Paper._ We suppose if Sir HERBERT had staged _David Copperfield_ he would have cast himself for the husband of _Mrs. Harris_. * * * * * THE PRIVATE FILM. MY attention has been drawn to the most recent and perhaps the most terrible development of the Cinema by an advertisement, from which I take the following extracts:-- HAVE YOUR OWN FILM TAKEN. THE MOST MODERN METHOD OF GAINING PUBLICITY. _To Members of Parliament, Mayors, Lecturers and other Public Men and Women._