Quite right! Russia is too large for such a little Geography as this.

    We will leave Russia as quickly as possible.

    Watch your Steppe!

     NORWAY AND SWEDEN

    It is all very sad about Norway and Sweden! A handsomer country couple—or couple of countries—it would be hard to meet anywhere, and so propinquous! Have they not been next-door neighbours from the infancy of the world?

    And everybody knows what Propinquity does.

    It is Cupid’s middle name; what more natural than that they should get married?

    Haven’t you heard? Well, it all happened so quickly, they were married in Vienna in 1815, and—well, you know Propinquity is the Devil’s middle name, too—they were divorced in 1905 after a brief married life of only ninety years!

    What could have been the trouble?

    Some say the food, others attribute it to the Domestic Drama. Perhaps it was both. Here is a typical Scandinavian Menu—

    Pjkled Ojsters

    Bjsque of Snajls

    Frjed Fjsh

    Natjve Wjne

    Qujnce Jce-cream

    Onjons and Bjsqujts

    It might almost pass for an Ibsen Play with the average theatre-goer; it has what the average theatre-goer calls “atmosphere.”

     I once drew Ibsen, looking bored

     Across a deep Norwegian Fjord,

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