OUR LETTER BOX

Observer, Volume XXXIV, Issue 24, 21 February 1914, Page 24

OUR LETTER BOX

(j t (j.—Objectionable even if true. g, p.—Many thanks—will use. O. —Libellous. Ttji.—No earthly hope. O. M.—Thank you. Susannah.—Will sool the office theologian on to it. p t w. L.—Not knowing, cannot say. It's a real treat not to know. Pinny.—The office hangman awards «' Hetty's Sacrifice " a six feet drop. B. C. R.—You are the very paince of wails. Smile man, smile. 1915.—The gift of prophecy is not thine. old number. Tess.—The theory was exploded in the dim past by a person named Immanuel Kant. Ever heard of him ? PAR.—As you say your paragraph is "awfully simple." It is also simply awful. T C —The joke dates from the Pleocine 'period, and is therefore highly valuable ammunition for a political speech. H P.— Fascinating but highly indigestible theory for "purification of society," but the doctors are at it, Henry—and they know !J Aralukn (M.S.W.)— We regret that our obscurity does not merit the privilege of accommodating your masterpiece. Try, for instance, "Light and Liberty." D d.—What body of essential worker are never heard of in industrial dis" turbances ? We name the iron miners as being of vast importance, You never yet saw a paragraph about them. There are fifty million others Black and white and khaki brothers, That 'ud like to be a-campin' in yer skin. So whatever comes along, sing the same old cheerful song, Turn the corners of yer mouth right up and grin.