Sprawling for elbow-room,
Spearing straight spikes of bloom,
Clean, wayward and tough;
Sweet and tall and slender,
True, enduring and tender,
Buoyant and bold and bluff,
Simplest, sanest of stuff;--
_Thus grows Lavender, thence breathes England_.
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[Illustration: _Baker._ "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE LITTLE CHAP?"
_Mother._ "I GIVE IT UP. I'VE GIVEN HIM A BUN--I DON'T KNOW WHAT MORE 'E
WANTS. I CAN'T GET 'IM TO REALISE THERE'S A WAR ON."]
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CO-OPERATIVE ADVERTISEMENTS.
In view of the restriction of the paper supply it has been suggested that
advertisers should unite in cultivating the available space on a co-operative
intensive system.
For example, the various proprietors of three popular brands of cigarettes,
instead of having a page advertisement each, might combine in one single
page, like this:--
THREE OF THE BEST.
_You cannot consider yourself a connoisseur of
cigarettes unless you are able to distinguish at
one and the same time the individually exquisite
flavours of_
"THE BRASS HAT"
"THE OFFENSIVE.
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