Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914
We hear that the news of the defeat of Messrs. Travers, Evans ( Chick ) and Ouimet in the Amateur Golf Championship was received by President Huerta's troops with round upon round of cheering. Frankly, we think it rather petty of them.
The statement in The Daily Mail to the effect that about two million pounds have been sunk in the new German liner Vaterland is apt to be misconstrued, and we are requested to state that the vessel is still afloat.
There was a fire at the Press Club off Fleet Street last week, but we refuse absolutely to credit the rumour that this was the work of a member anxious that his paper should have first news of the conflagration.
We came across a flagrant example, the other day, of an advertisement that did not speak the truth. Seated on the top of an omnibus were six persons with most regrettable faces. Underneath them was an inscription, which ran the length of the knife-board:—
Things we'd like to know.
Persons who are hesitating to visit the Anglo-American Exposition may like to know that the representation of New York there is not so realistic as to be unpleasant.
Mr. A. Kipling Common writes to The Daily Mail deploring England's lack of great men. We are sorry that The Times should be so shy in using its power to remedy this defect. Letters from the great are always printed by our contemporary in large type. A few promotions might surely be distributed now and then among the small-type men?
A friendly intimation is said to have been conveyed by the Royal Academy to a restaurant in the immediate neighbourhood which advertises an Academy luncheon that its name might with advantage be changed to one of a nature less inciting to Suffragettes. We refer to Hatchett's.
Is cannibalism to be Society's latest fad? We notice that somebody's Skin Food is being advertised pretty freely.
The Criterion Restaurant, we see, is advertising a Souper Dansant . Personally we dislike the kind of supper which, when eaten, will not lie down and rest.
Various
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Vol. 146.
May 27, 1914.
CHARIVARIA.
DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM.
Lines dedicated to the outraged memory of Keats.
THE AUDIT.
THE COALITION TOUCH.
THE COLONEL TALKS.
ONE OF OUR GREATEST.
An Interview.
BLUDYARD.
THE SWEET O' THE YEAR.
A HANGING GARDEN IN BABYLON.
The Tandem.
NOT TO BE CAUGHT.
DRASTIC REFORM OF SCHOOLS.
Remarkable Speech.
INSPIRATION.
THE AMENDING BILL.
ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
(Extracted from the Diary of Toby, M.P.)
BUYING A PIANO.
THE PARAFFIN HABIT.
The New Dramatist.
AT THE PLAY.
"The Great Gamble."
Latest Cannibal News.
VERY MUCH GREATER LONDON.
SYNTHETIC MUTTON.
A MAY PICNIC.
THE CORNCRAKE.
OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
The Conqueror of Ouimet.