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Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 46, 24 July 1915, Page 11

Rather unexpected was the reply of .a Mrs Tommy Atkins to a gentleman who inquired if her husband was at the front. "Yus," she said, "an' I 'ope Vll serye the Germans as 'c servedl me."

"So you are going to be marrfed, Mary?'"' "Yes, ma'am, and I'M "be leaving you next Tuesday^ , - "Well I hope you are getting a good, lrusr band." "If lie ain't better tihaSi the one you've got, I Won't keep him long."

* * * Lieutentnt S'mythe: "I think I ought to get >a periscope what do you think?" Aunt Agatha: "Don't go buying one, my dear; if you could borrow one for a .pattern, I am sure I could knit you on© just as good." * * *

"Home" Jones, of the Shore, has capturedl a celebrity in the person of Corporal "Dooley" WMson, returned 1 woiindedi from the front, and "Horrie" is apparently th© envied: of all Shoreites, and he simply sits back with folded 1 arm® against the bar—a sort of finiger post to "Dooley." "Dooley" has a large sense of (humour, and he was known as the regimental hiumoi-ist, even whiem he was a soldier with the Royal Sussex in the days of long ago Ben GoJdwater, up at the other hostelry, might have bid tor "Dooley," whose stories of Big Lizzie and; her 15-inoh guns that shrapnel an acre of ground! at a time are causing "Horrie's" house to be besieged! with customers anxious to listen to the quaint "Dooley" on

things in general and Gallipoli in particular. "When, the doctors find a bad case," said "Dooley," "they stick a dope of rum into him—perhaps two—it's terrible to be wounded!"

Courtship: Autos, bonbons, flowers, Nice two-dollar shows, Loving looks and golden hours— That's the way it goes. Marriage: Street oars, picture plays, Now and them a tiff, Cooking:, scrubbing, all her days— Goodness, what a diff!