Punch or the London Charivari, October 10, 1920
Whenever I am in London, writes an American journalist, I never miss the House of Commons. Nor do we, during the Recess.
If Lord Kenyon wishes, I am prepared to fight him with any weapon he chooses to name at any time, announced Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny recently to a representative of The Star . In sporting circles it is thought that, in spite of his recent declaration, Mr. C. B. Cochran may consent to stage the encounter.
At the Air Conference last week Lieut.-Colonel Moore-Brabazon, M. P., said the Government should appoint experts to control the weather. It looks as if The Daily Mail was not going to have things all its own way.
The object of Poland, says M. Dombski, is peace, hard work and production. These were at one time the object of England, and she still hopes to get peace.
Mr. Pussyfoot Johnson has told a Glasgow audience that he is no kill-joy, but smokes cigars. It is also said that he has been seen going the pace playing dominoes.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. We can only add that the price of apples is enough to keep anybody away.
What is a Penny Roll? asks a headline. The answer is Three half-pence.
The average boarding-house, says a gossip writer, is not what it seems. No, unfortunately it is what it is.
We understand that the world's record fast has been accomplished by a Scotsman, who has succeeded in remaining in Prohibition America for seven months and three days.
South Sea Islanders, when greeting friends, says Tit Bits , fling a jar of water over them. Cats on night duty are now putting a kindlier interpretation on the treatment they receive.
An employee at a coal-mine in Ohio is reported to have died from overwork. There is consolation in the fact that this could not possibly happen in England.
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VOLUME 159.
October 20, 1920.
CHARIVARIA.
DIPLOMACY.
The Music of the Future.
FALLING PRICES
GONE AWAY!
"THE RESOURCES OF CIVILISATION."
HIGH LIFE ON THE UNDERGROUND.
THE DINING GLADIATOR;
THE END OF AN IMPERFECT DAY.
Another Sex-Problem.
CHECK BY THE QUEEN
NEW RHYMES FOR OLD CHILDREN.
THE NEW POOR.
THE CONSPIRATORS
Relatives without Antecedents
SINISTER SIGNS FROM SOUTH KENSINGTON.
ALADDIN AND THE MINER'S LAMP.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY SHOCKER.
Commercial Candour.
ERNEST EXPERIMENTS.
PRAWLING'S THEORY.
More Impending Apologies.
HEADLINING.
More Precocity
LOVE'S HANDICAP.
How Some Advertisers "Tell the Tale."
"'FULL TERM.'"
OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
TACT IN TIME.
A Confession.