Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

CHAPTER XXVIII THE WAR — MR. LLOYD GEORGE APPROACHES US — OUR MUNITION WORK — LORD NORTHCLIFFE — I VISIT AUSTRALIA I cabled from the boat to Miss Roe : “Have to speak on Balkans. Get me all the books possible.” So on my arrival I found that Grace Roe had procured a library for…

The Lobster Quadrille

CHAPTER XIII THE FIRST WOMEN’S PARLIAMENT — CLOGS AND SHAWLS COME TO LONDON — ARISTOCRACY JOINS THE MOVEMENT — MY FIRST VISIT ABROAD Nineteen hundred and seven was a red-letter year for me. In this year the first Women’s Parliament was held. We called it the Women’s Parliament, though the only thing discussed was Votes…

The Mock Turtle’s Story

Chapter 20 A bright morning, and everybody and everything in South London singing cheerfully. Elderly birds in cages, cocking one eye and looking up at the sky, on being hung outside windows straightway began an air of which they had nearly forgotten the tune; the people hurrying along the pavements hummed or whistled; shopkeepers chatted…

A DAY WITH THE FLOWER-GIRLS. “VIOLETS, sweet violets! A penny a bunch!” From ten o’clock in the morning until the first hour of midnight this cry of the flower-sellers may be heard in the London streets. It usually issues from female throats, although occasionally the clamour is reinforced by a masculine voice, which, however, could…