_Monday, April 12th._--Neither Ministers nor ordinary Members showed any
marked eagerness to resume their Parliamentary labours. Little green oases
were to be seen in every part of the House, and on the Treasury Bench even
Under-Secretaries (who often have to maintain a precarious perch on one
another's knees) had room to spread themselves.
The Underground Railway may, like Nature, be careless of the individual,
but it is extremely careful of the typewriter, and insists on making a
special charge for this instrument, officially regarded as a bicycle. But
as Sir ERIC GEDDES announced that this extortion, "though legal," was in
his opinion "neither just nor expedient," we may hope that it will shortly
be abandoned. The Ministry of Transport at last seems likely to justify its
existence.
[Illustration: "HOT STUFF."