Notes

The following dialogue took place between Premier Baldwin and Lady Astor in the lobby of the House of Commons over an excerpt from the King's Speech, for which the Premier was responsible, and which read: "costs and profits in connection with the distribution of milk."

Premier: "Did you notice that the speech terminated with the word 'milk'? It is the first time it was ever done."

Lady Astor: "Yes, the last word usually has been drink."

The following record of Irish insanity was published: 1851, population, 6,552,385, insane persons, 9,980; 1921, population 4,390,000, lunatics 28,437.

Six thousand police assembled in the Royal Albert Hall, London, to protest against a lower wage proposal. The meeting attracted a good deal of interest because the Labor Party has been trying to get the police force unionized. Sir James Remnant, M.P., said to them: "For God's sake don't be mixed up in politics."

The Duchess of Hamilton, inspired by seeing her son, Marquis of Douglas, "pummel" the "Bermondsey Pet," professional pugilist, in a six-round contest, decided that international disputes ought to be settled by fisticuffs. Said she: "As I watched the fight the thought uppermost in my mind was, what a pity we cannot revert to the Viking days when tribal disputes were settled by fights between picked men. If we could only choose 100 boxers from each side and let them decide, how much better it would be than awful war. . . . Boxing teaches young men to take hard knocks, and self-control."