Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916

Fond Mother. Anything in the paper, dear?
Wage-earner (not unkindly). No, Ma—nothing you could understand.
His seventy-one years sit lightly on Mr. Gibson Bowles, says the Special Correspondent of The Evening News . No doubt Mr. Bowles has some good reason for permitting this familiarity, for he is not a man to be lightly sat upon.
In particular, says a report on the resources of German East Africa, the President of the Silk Association has just directed attention to the wild silk of the anaphe worm. The animal the great two-horned silkworm discovered by Sir Harry Johnston, before whose furious charges, according to the report of natives, even the elephant will give way.
A telegram from Rome states that it is generally believed that Admiral Tirpitz resigned because he could not take the German Fleet out. Others again maintain that it was because he could no longer take the German people in.
It was recently stated in a Parliamentary Report that verminous uniforms had been purchased by the Government for the sum of £2,650 and immediately resold for £400. The difference is accounted for by the fact that they were sold as going concerns.
A white rook has been observed at Boston Road, Brentford, and a local ornithologist writes to say that the bird is probably an accidental straggler from King's Bishop's Fourth.
To-day in many English homes, says a patriotic contemporary, alien birds are carolling all unconscious of their countries' doom. One had independently noticed how the modulated of the Turkey buzzard had taken on a mournful tone.
It is not unusual for horses to go to sleep as they walk along, said a sagacious coroner last week. How often in the old four-wheeler days, when we were going ventre a terre from Buckingham Palace to the National Liberal Club, conversation was rendered impossible by the snores of the flying steed.
The price of admission to Kew for perambulators is 3 d. on ordinary days, 1 s. on student days. The extra charge has been found necessary because of the fact that large numbers of horticulturists, in order to escape military service, have taken to travelling in these vehicles.