THIS PROM THE BRITISH

We find " Short and Sweet," headed by the following excerpt of explanation, in the Manchester Guardian:

["ln a campaign to convert all American males to 'shorts,' and 'thus emancipate the world's greatest civilisation' from the slavery of long trousers, 500 undergraduates of Dartmouth College (New Hampshire) paraded in bare knees to-day with flags, banners, and brass bands."—Message from New York.]