Title:  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 11, 1919

Author:  Various

Release Date:  March 22, 2004 [EBook #11670]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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PUNCH,

Or the London charivari.

Vol. 156.

June 11, 1919.

CHARIVARIA.

“Every British working man has as much right as any Member of Parliament to be paid L400 a year,” states a well-known Labour paper.  We have never questioned this for a moment.

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“Women,” says a technical journal, “are a source of grave danger to motorists in crowded city streets.”  It is feared in some quarters that they will have to be abolished.

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“Are you getting stout?” asks a Sunday contemporary.  Only very occasionally, we regret to say.

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The heat was so oppressive in London the other day that a taxi-driver at Euston Station was seen to go up to a pedestrian and ask him if he could do with a ride.  He was eventually pinned down by some colleagues and handed over to the care of his relatives.

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“I do not care a straw about Turkey,” writes Mr. Lovat Fraser in The Daily Mail.  It is this dare-devil spirit which has made us the nation we are.

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Superstition in regard to marriage is dying out, says a West End registrar.  Nevertheless the superstition that a man who gets married between January 1st and December 31st is asking for trouble is still widely held.

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Mr. Van INGEN, a New York business man, has just started to cross the Atlantic for the one hundred and sixtieth time.  It is not known whether the major ambition of his life is to leave New York or go back and have a last look at it.

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“There is no likelihood,” says the food-controller, “of cheese running out during the coming winter.”  A pan of drinking water left in the larder will always prevent its running out and biting someone during the dog-days.

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Sympathetic readers will be glad to hear that the little sixpence which was found wandering in Piccadilly Circus has been given a good home by an Aberdeen gentleman.

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Aeroplane passengers are advised by one enterprising weekly not to throw bottles out of the machine.  This is certainly good advice.  The bottles are so apt to get broken.

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Germany, it is expected, will sign the Peace treaty this once, but points out that we must not allow it to happen again.