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Evening Star, Issue 19272, 10 June 1926, Page 1

The 'first, of January has not always been the first day of tne year. For 700 years prior to the fifteenth century the year commenced on-Christmas Day. More than CfiiO schools in Britain are described by the Board of Education ns “dark, damp, dirty, often with leaking roofs, peeling walls, and rotting floors.” The blood of footballers, much ns I dislike the game and all its works, is more bactericidal after playing n game than before.—Sir Alniroth 'Wright. Short, dim, ami drear, tcrnpceluous and grey, .. nod, v.mi, rain-.swept, early August day! The sort, of day that spreads abroad despair And hurtles influenza on the air. Short, dim, and drear, a day for hearth and home, And Idnoly thoughts for all who homeless roam, For time (Iks aid to all who colds endure, Welcome cud Woods' Great Peppermint s Cure,—£i.dvtj