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Some time ago he stayed with Israel Zang- 

 will at Men bone, and a Monte Carlo hostess 

 in search of lions managed to persuade the 

 two men of letters to ?ccept an invitation 

 to lunch at Giro's. A large and a "smart"' 

 party was asked to meet them, and duly 

 assembled, dressed in its best. 



"How delightful," said one of the guests 

 as they waited for Maeterlinck, " at last we 

 shall hear something different from the usual 

 Monie gossip." 



The wait was a long one. At last Maeter- 

 linck appeared, dressed in knickerbockers 

 and covered with dust after a mountain 

 raml)le. And his whole conversation through- 

 out luncheon centred round roulette systems. 

 He had played one, which in its turn had 

 played him false, and the eternal question 

 of how to beat the bank aIt.sorhed him. (He 

 had just lost three thousand francs !) 



Monte Carlo society has long forgiven him 

 the di.sappointmpnt of his conversation, but 

 I doubt whether it will ever pardon his knic- 

 kerbockers and his dust! 



Dogs have a great attraction for him, 

 and he even prefers their company to 

 that of a boxer. Golaud, his bulldog, 

 is very like his master, for he hidc;s a 

 gentle, retiring disposition beneath a 

 stern and forbidding exterior. Unlike 

 his master, however, he dearly loves to 

 pose for the camera. 



MADAME MAETERLINCK. 

 Madame Maeterlinck is even more ver- 

 satile than her famous husband, and, in 



addition to being a charming actress, 

 she is a fine opera singer, and is the 

 author of " La Choix de la Vie," which 

 has received much praise. 



Her pride in her famous hu.sl)and is im- 

 mense. I .shall, never forget the tone of her 

 voice wlien. while .showing me her home for 

 tiie iir.st time, she opened the door of Maeter- 

 linck's study and announced: " Le. cahinit 

 de travail de, Maeterlinck," or how with re- 

 verence she unlocked his precious desk that 

 I might photograph it. And when 1 bogged 

 her to pose, she protested : 



" They won't want my picture. Ah. but it 

 is true, I am the wife of Maeterlinck." 



It is thanks to Madame Maeterlinck that 

 the pot^t is occasionally persuaded to make 

 a semi-official appearance. She has even 

 succeeded in getting him to attend a dinner 

 given in his honour. I was not present that 

 night, but some wiio were told me that 

 Maeterlinck's face throughout the meal was 

 a study in ihe art of looking bored. 



BEES AND BOXING. 

 In conclusion, Mr. Maude says: — 



And this is how he who would know 

 Maeterlinck must take him — as among the 

 most human, the most natural, the most 

 simple of men. . All that is natural has beauty 

 for him. He loves hers, he adores his dog. 

 he anologises to his Ivoxing iiistnict(jr if his 

 punch i.s too hard, and he reveres his wife. 



FIGHTING MEN AND THINGS. 



HOW TO SAVE THE TERRITORIALS. 



The present state of the Territorial 

 Army is discussed by Arthur J. Ireland 

 in the London Magazine. He tells us, 

 amongst other startling things, that 

 there were 14,166 more officers and men 

 serving m the old Volunteers and Yeo- 

 manry at the time of their absorption— - 

 which is the polite official word for aboli- 

 tion — than have been raised since for 

 service in the new force. 



To save the Territorials he urges that 

 all large employers of labour should do 

 everything m their power to encourage 

 and help their employees to jom. The}' 

 are the men who have most to lose 

 should war break out— for everybody 

 knows that even apart from the unlhmk- 

 able horrors of an invasion from ever\- 

 point of view, war is a jwralysing thing 

 so far as commerce is concerned and 

 so, from purely selfish motives alone, 



they should be onh' too willing to make 

 slight concessions in the present in order 

 to avert as far as possible the likelihood 

 of serious difficulty and ]ierhai)s total 

 ruin in the future. 



Regular j^ay should be gncn to 

 every officer and man in the Territorial 

 Army throughout the )-ear while he con- 

 tinues to serve. The scale rale ought to 

 allow of a shilling a week being paid to 

 the men, an average of 4s. 3d. a week to 

 the N.C.O.'s. and an average of X^o a 

 ) ear to the ofncers, which would entail 

 an outlay of about /,' 1,5 53,625 a year. 

 But this cost would be more iIkui justi- 

 fied by the results obtained. In the first 

 ])lace, men would gladly join the Force 

 in order to earn this pocket-money, from 

 which deductions would have to be made 

 for non-attendance at drills or absence 

 from repetition courses, as well as for 

 offences. The Service would thus be- 



