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Old Lady (to District Visitor).



 

" we sending Christmas cards. this year? Yes," said Blathers, "but not next year, or the year after that, as we shall be retrenching. They are quite modest trifles, yet at the mere sight of the envelope cach recipient will, cheerfully, I hope, pay twopence towards the sinews of war. One hundred of these contributions will amount, I am told, to sixteen shillings and eightpence; not much, but it is my little offering to the country in her hour of need. This is the card I propose to send out in a sealed and unstamped cover":—

The Ferns, Tooting.

 "'The Russian mining engineers who have been sent to Galicia since the ocenpation report that the oil districts will suffice to supply the whole of South-Western Russia. The working of the fields will start in the spring; moreover salt and iron abound, also sporadicalli, silver, copper. lead and the rarer metals.' Cork Examiner."

For vermicelli, however, it will still be necessary to go to Italy.