25 JUNE 1954, Page 17

The approach of picnic weather recalls an alphabet about the

discondbrts of this type of alfresco party which Miss H. Pearl Adam once began. She got as far as: A was the Anthill we failed to remark; B was the Backache that Jbllowed the lark; C was the Climate, as wet as a lake; D was the big word that most of us .spake .