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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917 By: Various |
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VOL. 152 JANUARY 31, 1917 CHARIVARIA. The birth rate in Berlin, it appears, is considerably lower this year than
last. We can quite understand this reluctance to being born a German just
now. The official German films of the Battle of the Somme prove beyond doubt
that if it had not been for the Allies the Germans would have won this
battle. The German military authorities have declined to introduce bathless days.
Ablution, it appears, is one of the personal habits that the Teuton does
not pursue to a vicious excess. Some congestion of traffic is being experienced by the Midland Railway
owing to the publicity given by the FOOD CONTROLLER to the Company's
one and ninepenny luncheon basket. Many people are finding it more
economical to purchase a return ticket to the Midlands and lunch in the
train than to go, as formerly, to one of the regular tea shops. An egg four and a half inches long and eight inches round has been laid by
a hen at Southover, Lewes. It is understood that a proposal by the
FOOD CONTROLLER that this standard should be adopted as the compulsory
minimum for the duration of the War is meeting with some opposition from
Mr. PROTHERO. "We must all be prepared to make sacrifices," says the Berliner
Tageblatt . We understand that, acting upon this advice, several high
command officers have volunteered to sacrifice the CROWN PRINCE. The Dublin Corporation has decided to pay full salaries from the date of
their leaving work to those employees who until recently have been held
under arrest for participation in the Sinn Fein rebellion. The idea of
making them a grant for Kit and Field allowances has not yet come under
consideration. German travellers, says a news item, are forbidden to take flowers with
them into Austria. It is intended that the funeral shall be a quiet one. Mr. DANIELS describes the shells made by American factories for the U.S.
Navy as "colossally inferior" to those submitted by a British firm. The
explanation is of course that the former are primarily designed to enforce
universal peace. A Leicestershire farmer who applied for alien enemies to assist in
farm work was supplied with three Hungarians a jeweller, a hairdresser and
a tailor. His complaint is, we understand, that while he wanted his land to
be well dressed he didn't want it overdone. [Illustration: NATURE'S TACTLESS MIMICRY. CURIOUS ATTITUDE ASSUMED BY TREES IN A DISTRICT OCCUPIED BY THE GERMANS.] A widely known nocturnal pleasure resort makes the announcement that it is
still open for business, the action of the Court having only deprived it of
the right to sell intoxicating liquors. We fear it will be a case of
Hamlet without the familiar spirit. "We are not war weary but war hardened," said Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL in a
recent address. Germany, we are happy to state, is war weary and will soon
be Maximilian Hardened. The question as to whether war serves any useful purpose has been settled
once for all. "The War has provided many incidents for this revue," says a
stage paper of a new production. A pig sty has been erected in his rose garden by a doctor in East Essex.
The general idea is not new, though it is more usual to plant a rose garden
round your pig sty, as a corrective. It is pointed out by an evening paper that the official prohibition of
"fishing, washing and bathing" in the St. James's Park pond is superfluous,
as the pond was dried up two years ago. In view of the exceptional severity
of the weather the authorities will shortly replace the offending notice by
another merely prohibiting skating. Lord ROBERT CECIL has expressed his willingness to consider proposals for
the reform of the British Consular service. The suggestion, however, that
not more than seventy five per cent. of our Consular representatives should
be natives of Germany and the countries of her Allies seems a little too
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