WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 231, 9 March 1915, Page 2

WAR NOTES.

, LOST! . Nina Murdoch, of the nimble, pen, contributes the following snappy set of 1- verses to the "Sydney Sun, based on the statement of a, returned traveller, to the effect that everywhere' ill London the sutfrage societies were particularly . active and eflicient in war work: — ! Lost! A person you'll remember, Disappeared about September , Of last year; Had a bee within her bonnet (No one dared to write a'sonnet To her ear!) Since her age. was quite uncertain, We perforce must draw a curtain Over that. Was she twenty-five or fifty? Was she, prodigal or thrifty? Thin or fat? None can tell, for those that saw'lier In a thousand guises draw her, .Different each! She. has been described as martyr Vandal, lunatic and tartar— Even Peach! Who can tell ns what became of ITer who answered to the name of Suffragette? ■ Not a clue she left behind her, Is she (could we haply find her), » Living yet? Though the journals all adore' her, No reward was offered for her And her place Has been filled by an attractive Quite efficient dame and active, 'Full of grace. Now it hurts us to proclaim it, And we hardly dare to name it Yet we will. Who exchanged the damsel shady For this solendid. helpful lady?. —Kaiser Bill. ANSWERED. Soldier, too great the odds, too strong the foe! _ "What then? More glory so!" Sailor, death lurks above, beneath, around! "Where duty call's, I'm found." Students, why leave your books to join the fight? "That Right may conquer Might." Merchant, your credit's gone, your labor vain. I "All's well, we'll start again." Sweetheart, he loved you not or would not go. "He loves me better so." Woman, your husband going to the war, "ITow could hi; do ]es3~ or more?" Parent, for naught you gave your soldier son, * "But thus the battle's won." England, of wealth, of men, of all bereft "Why no. my honor's left." Christian, with empty words you 'prate of peace. And dream that, wars will cease. "Christ comes no hollo\t' truce to make with sin. His peac* is peace within."