WHEN A FELLOW GETS HIS--

PHOTO TAKEN FOR THE PAPERS--

I THINK IT'S ROTTEN BAD FORM--

ON THE PART OF ANOTHER FELLOW--

TO SPOIL THE PICTURE BY INTRUDING A BALL--

AT THE CRUCIAL MOMENT.]

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THE HANDY MAN.

The men I most admire at the present time, though I take care not to
tell them so to their faces, are the men who can do everything. By
this I don't mean people of huge intellectual attainments, like
Cabinet Ministers, or tremendous physical powers, like _Tarzan_ of the
Apes. It must be very nice to be able to have a heart-to-heart talk
with KRASSIN or to write articles for the Sunday picture-papers, and
very nice also to swing rapidly through the tree-tops, say, in Eaton
Square; but none of these gifts is much help when the door-handle
comes off. I hate that sort of thing to happen in a house.

In the Victorian age, of course, which was one of specialisation based
upon peace and plenty, one simply sent for a door-handle replacer and
he put it right. But nowadays the Door-handle Replacers' Union is