Although the name topic bores us to distinction, as a young lady of our acquaintance puts it, we should feel we were posing if we neglected to find room for the following: Sir: Deedonk, can you provide a chaise longue in the Romance language department of the Academy for George E. Ahwee of Colon, Panama? Rusty. * * * We knew what was meant, and yet it gave us a slight start to read in a Minnesota paper, "Pickle your own feet while they are cheap and clean." * * * OPINION CONCURRED IN. Sir: My heart with pleasure filled when I saw that Riquarius quoted it as I always want to do, "with rapture fills." While I realized it is the height of presumption to think I could improve on Wordsworth, don't you agree with me that rapture is more expressive than pleasure? Jay Aye. "Rapture" might be preferred for another reason: the accent falls on a stronger syllable. Suppose George Meredith had used "pleasure" in his lines-- "Lasting, too, For souls not lent in usury, The rapture of the forward view." Every good poet has left lines that could be bettered for another ear. Probably Wordsworth leads the list. * * * TRANSCENDENTAL CALM. Sir: Remember the story about Theodore Parker and Emerson? While they were walking in Concord a Seventh Day Adventist rushed up to them and said, "Gentlemen, the world is coming to an end." Parker said, "That doesn't affect me; I live in Boston." Emerson said, "Very well. I can get along without it." E. H. R. * * * So the President has been converted to universal military training--as a war measure. Better late than never, as Noah remarked to the Zebra, which had understood that passengers arrived in alphabetical order. * * * THIS REFERS, OF COURSE, TO FRANCE. [From Faguet's "Cult of Incompetence."]