15 AUGUST 1931, page 12

A Drain On The Exchequer.

"The world," said The Times on Monday, "has been looking for some sign that we intend to live within our means " ; and on Tuesday announced that the Board of Education had......

And So I Had My First Rendezvous With Death. .

. . and worse than death. Death, it is true, on this occasion only tapped me on the shoulder and hurried on. But some contagion remained from his passage. To this day, for......

Tarroos.

In recent years the popularity of the Tattoos has grown steadily. And quite right, too. For our part, we shall always be conscious of a thrill of pride and a glow of reas-......

A Ballade Of One-sided Correspondence

"DEAR Smith "—No I won't, once again I decide, (You've been waiting, you say, for a year more or less) I know I've not answered, I've not even tried, (Dear, dear ! And you "sent......

A Penny Of Observation

ARMADO : How haat thou purchased this experience ? Mom: By my penny of observation. (Love's Labour's Lost.) HOLIDAY TASKS. In these days the popular Press is now so fatuous all......