Title:  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 6, 1917

Author:  Various

Release Date:  April 19, 2005 [EBook #15657]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

Vol. 152.

JUNE 6, 1917.

CHARIVARIA.

It is rumoured that the Press campaign against young men of military age engaged in Government offices is causing some of them many sleepless days.

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A correspondent writes to an evening paper to say that by his thermometer the recent heat was a record for the year.  We suppose it is due to the example of the Censor in the matter of the Folkestone raid that nobody appears to be able to keep a secret.

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“A movement is on foot,” says a contemporary, “to present the Italian nation with a monument to SHAKSPEARE, to be erected in Rome.”  The alternative of despatching Mr. George Bernard Shaw to become a naturalized Italian does not appear to have been so well received.

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Lord COWDRAY recently presided at a lecture on “Flying after the War.”  Most people will be content to wait till it comes by again.

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Mr. Kennedy Jones has declared that beer is a food.  This should have a salutary effect on those who have hitherto mistakenly regarded it as a pigment.

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An artist has been arrested under the Defence of the Realm Act for sketching on the East Coast without permission.  It is dangerous in these times to be caught mapping.

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A contemporary complains that German officers at a South of England Prisoners’ Camp are being driven to the dentist in motor cars.  We also hold the opinion that these reprisals do more harm than good.

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A controversy has recently been raging on the question of whether trousers will survive the War.  The better opinion seems to be that a few exceptionally stout pairs at present in their infancy may be still extant when peace is actually declared.

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The sudden and dramatic conclusion of the Romney case was a great disappointment to many theatrical experts.  They had predicted that it would run for at least as short a period as most of the other recent West-End revues.

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The want of co-ordination between our Ministries becomes daily more marked.  It is an offence to keep a stray dog more than three days, but, on the other hand, a sausage roll may be kept any length of time provided it is sealed up at both ends.