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Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 By: Various |
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OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOLUME 147. DECEMBER 23, 1914. CHARIVARIA. An exceptionally well informed Berlin newspaper has discovered that,
owing to the war, Ireland is suffering from a horse famine, and many of
the natives are now to be seen driving cattle. An appeal is being made in Germany for cat skins for the troops. In
their Navy, on the other hand, they often get the cat itself. In offering congratulations to the "Green Howards" on the work they have
been doing at the Front, Major General CAPPER said, "I knew it was a
regiment I could hang my hat on at any time of the day or night." The
expression is perhaps a little unfortunate; it sounds as if they had
been pegging out. Private F. NAILOR, of the Royal Berkshires, was at his home at Sandhurst
last week when the postman brought a letter from the War Office
reporting that he had been killed in action. While his being alive is,
of course, in these circumstances an act of gross insubordination, the
Army Council will, we understand, content itself with an intimation that
it must not happen again. A cigar presented by the KAISER to Lord LONSDALE has been sold at Henley
in aid of the local Red Cross Hospital, and has become the property of a
butcher at the price of £14 10s. Will it, we wonder, now be inscribed,
"From a brother butcher"? According to the Berliner Tageblatt Western Australia is interning her
alien enemies on "Rottnest Island." If there is anything in a name, this
does seem a rather unhappy choice, in view of the well known
sensitiveness of the German. It is curious how in war time really important occurrences are apt to
escape one's notice. For example, it was not until we read an article in
a contemporary last week on "The Demise of the Slim Skirt" that we
realised that Fat Skirts were now the vogue. Of all forms of cruelty the most hideous is that which is perpetrated on
defenceless little children, and we hear with regret that the Register
of Births in Liverpool now includes the following names: Kitchener
Ernest Pickles, Jellicoe Jardine, French Donaldson, and Joffre Venmore. With reference to our recent remarks about Mr. J. WARD'S so called mixed
metaphor of a horse bolting with money, a gentlemen writes to us from
Epsom to say that he has personally put money on more than one horse
which bolted. The War would certainly seem to have led to better feeling in the Labour
world between masters and men, and from a recent paragraph in The Daily
Mail we learn that there is now a London Association of Master
Decorators. The idea is a pretty one. Iron Crosses, perhaps? The War has worked other wonders. Not the least of these, a Stock
Exchange friend points out, is that lots of Bulls and Bears are now
comrades in arms. "NEW PHASE IN RUSSIA.
GERMANS CHANGING THEIR DISPOSITIONS." Daily Mail. We are glad to hear this, for they used to have simply beastly ones. Illustration: Orderly. "YOUR MAJESTY, I HAVE BEEN SENT TO ASK FOR DETAILED
INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS DINNER TO BE HELD AT BUCKINGHAM
PAL " Wilhelm . ! !! Another secret revealed by Mr. HAMILTON FYFE: "As usual when they take the initiative, the Russian troops swept
the enemy before them. They first cleared out the trenches and then
pursued the Germans." Daily Mail. In the West we still cling to the old fashioned method of first clearing
out the Germans and then pursuing the trenches. SOME LITERARY WAR NOTES. MESSRS. HARRAP have just brought out William the Silent . This is not a
biography of the KAISER. Nor is The Hound of Heaven , a new edition of which is announced by
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