Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-03

After all, asks a writer, why shouldn't Ireland have a Parliament, like England? Quite frankly we do not like this idea of retaliation while more humane methods are still unexplored.
The miners' strike, says a music-hall journal, has given one song-writer the idea for a ragtime song. It is only fair to say that Mr. Smillie had no idea that his innocent little manœuvre would lead to this.
The Admiralty does not propose to publish an official account of the Battle of Jutland. Indeed the impression is gaining ground that this battle will have to be cancelled.
We are asked to deny that, following upon the publication of Mirrors of Downing Street , by A Gentleman with a Duster, Lord Kenyon is about to dedicate to Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny a book entitled A Peer with a Knuckle-Duster .
Mr. Lloyd George seems to have had his hair 'bobbed' recently, says a gossip-writer in a Sunday paper. Mr. Hodges still sticks to the impression that it was really two-bobbed.
Cigars discovered in the possession of Edward Fischer, in New York, says a news item, were found to contain only tobacco. Very rarely do we come across a case like that in England.
Water, says a member of the L.C.C., is being sold at a loss. But not in our whisky, we regret to say.
What is claimed to be the largest shell ever made has been turned out by the Hecla Works, Sheffield. It may shortly be measured for a war to fit it.
A taxi-driver who knocked a man down in Gracechurch Street has summoned him for using abusive language. It seems a pity that pedestrians cannot be knocked down without showing their temper like this.
After months of experiment at Thames Ditton the question of an artificial limb of light metal has been solved. It is said to be just the thing for Tube-travellers to carry as a spare.
In connection with Mr. Pringle's recent visit to Ireland we are asked to say that he was not sent there as a reprisal.