A SIGN OF THE TIMES.

"YOUNG LADY Wants post as Housekeeper to working man."--_Halifax

Evening Courier_.

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"Planers (large letters) Wanted, for machine tool work; good

bonus; war work; permanent job."--_Daily Dispatch_.

Pessimist!

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"WHAT DISABLED SOLDIERS SHOULD KNOW.

"That there is no such word as 'imossible' in his

dictionary."--_Canadian Paper_.

Correct.

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"M. Polychromads, Green Chargé d'Affaires, has left London for

the Hague."--_Sunday Times_.

It is an unfortunate colour, but with a name like that he can always

try one of the others.

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"The canker of indiscipline and the wine of liberty have

shaken the Russian Army to its foundations."--_"Times" Russian

Correspondent_.

While the tide of new life that was kindled by the torch of revolution

seems destined to crumble into dust.

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