Of course, it is the advertising that suffers. If you do it yourself, sooner or later it becomes a worry, and when a reminder arrives that your copy is due very likely your instructions will be to repeat the last, or possibly, if you have a minute or two to spare, you will sit down and grind out a lot of nonsense which no one cares to read. If you wish to make any genuine effort properly to employ the most important factor in commerce, get someone who understands the art to do it for you; engage a good man, and do not expect to get the same for five pounds as you would for ten pounds. _Curiosities._ Copyright, 1904, By George Newnes, Ltd. [_We shall be glad to receive Contributions to this section, and to pay for such as are accepted._] "HUMAN NOTES." [Illustration] "I beg to send you a photograph of some little boys in this parish who were taking part in a Band of Hope entertainment. The item on the programme was called 'Human Notes,' and the little songsters, each taking the note he represented, sang a peal of bells and extracts from nursery rhymes. I thought the idea might be useful for other places. The framework is easily made and costs little, and was most heartily received wherever tried."--Miss Statham, River Vicarage, Dover. Photo. by Mr. Ray Sherman. HOW A SHOT BIRD REALLY FALLS. [Illustration] "Painters of sporting subjects have often portrayed, from memory necessarily, a bird in the act of being shot, either immediately before or after the event. Here, at last, is an actual photograph of a wild duck at the moment of receiving its _coup de grâce_. It was in a lonely, low-lying bay on the West Coast of Ireland. Ducks were homing in fair numbers overhead on their way to the large lakes lying inland, when, telling my photographic friend to get well behind me and snap away as fast as he could, I advanced a few paces and also merrily snapped away. Upon developing the series at home that night we found that between us our snaps had resulted in our obtaining the photograph here reproduced. It shows clearly that a duck--well shot--falls like a plumb to the earth, head foremost, and may serve to correct some of the imaginary pictures of similar incidents."--Mr. Dudley M. Stone, 8, Chichele Road, Cricklewood, N.W. A FLOATING CHAPEL. [Illustration] "I took this photograph during the recent heavy floods in Wales. A mission-room had been washed away during the night, and it was an uncommon sight seeing a party of men 'towing' the edifice back to a place of safety. It struck me as being a unique incident, so I forward it on to you."--Mrs. E. L. F. Mansergh, 59, Madeley Road, Ealing, W. HOUSE-MOVING EXTRAORDINARY. [Illustration]