Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-22

loneineiy of direct action, and he had
 made the rest of the passengers won-
 der why the air raids left so much
 rubbish lying about.
 When the train arrived he fought
 his way into the crowded restaurant : car. waving paper which entitled
 him and his wife to certain numbered seats. He found the seats. with a
 quiet little man and girl already oc- cupying them, and he called the att
 Those are my seats" he said. Turn those people cut,
 Booking offiee7 must have made mis- take These seats are always re- served for this gentleman. sir" and with gentle but inexorable tactics he from to join the general scramble for places in the ordinary carriages. No" said, the little man. in reply to a question the girl put as they watch of the car. T didn't book the seats. I knew this chap would look after me. He was nay platoon sergeant in front of Lcos for three months"
 The other day, at christis's silver gilt nef.. only twenty inches high, fetched the huge sum of $500. To most people this small word in the English language is little known. It is relic of days gone by. when sailing ships were the only means of com between idnus olyleeu , by the sea. A nef in the '"good old days" was a decorative piece of plate for the dinner table of persons of high degree It was generally shaped like boat or ship. often having a row or oars, aud was used to hold table napkins, towels. and other odds and ends.
 To be in the. fashion today, nef should take the form of R-34 or a Handley Page. But it's. contour might l impair it's utility!
 The Aegean coastiine to the east of KavalIa, to which the Greeks are llaying claim. is one of the most pie tureSQue parts of Eastern Europe ] kavalla itself was greatly strengthen ed by the Greeks after 1t became their i in 1913. at the conclusion of the sec- ond Balkan War. The forts guarding the tobae co exporting town on the Ian side are natural features which. be- fore the Bulgarians ivaded Eastern Macedonia in August 1916. had been made practically impregnable. Dedeagatch was considered by the Greeks as convenient pumping of place for their enemy, but the Kavalla been for the treachery of the kavalla Division the Hellenic army could have I CTS. The stnSie-tr railway might i have held with ease, and the difficult
 route over the mountains was i'm practicable for the transport of ths l d
 MT. Lloyd George has had to worl early and late in connection with tht coal trouble. but if he himself could 1 choose the time for his more import. !, ant conferences it would probably bt well before noon.
 More than any other Prime Minis tef of our times he resembles the
 great Duke of Wellington in this, tha he is fully alert at a time when mos men have hardly begun to thaw from our traditional morning grumpiness The duke used to make appointment. long before the modern breakfast hour
 and MT. Lloyd George is quite read, ! to talk business at breakfast ] | first heard the ukuIele (ukeile' 1 (writes correspondent), played b, a little Mormon maid away in Stal Valley among the Rocky Mountains she stTummed an accompaniment tt i the Missouri Waltz; it was soul
 would have forgotten his -damsel witt \ dulcimer."
 I All through America I found the lit ! lte instrument. singing with a swee ! melancholy of far-cff Honolulu, with ] it's rustling palms and surf-bea aches and lowvoiced hula-hula girls. sway | ing in their strips of straw under the ] Pacific moon.
 1 I brought one home with me Ga uke not a straw -stripper"). and the Gus 1 toms man loftiiy declined to claim z 1 duty, refusing to recognize it as 2 musical instrument; the village said I had brought nome "a little fiddle that you played with your finger" In England the instrument is prac- ticalfy unknown except on the stage and yet in it's simplest form I know oi no other learnt so easily that can pro- vide so much pleasure
 You tune your four strings to A aat,- D fiat, F. and E fiat Respectively m the nianO {tho11eh if yOfl have once heard the ukulele strings sounded you remember them). and strum a chord accompaniment to your songs. You need not have a good voice