Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 150, May 17 1916

We can never talk of the theatre without harking back to the play itself, says The Matinée Girl in The Evening News . Funny how these irrelevant trifles will obtrude themselves into the most facile critic's train of thought.

So simple and successful has been the progress of the Daylight-Saving Scheme, under which the clock is to be put forward an hour during the summer months, that a movement is on foot to help the War Office prophets by putting the War back a couple of years.

It is not generally known that during the week ending May 7th a fourth Zeppelin was sunk by H.M.S. Feuilleton.

A tremendous boom in canaries is reported from New York. The colour is believed to be a favourite one with the hyphenated.

Breconshire County Council is proposing to abolish Sunday fishing. It is felt, however, that the demands of the Sabbath will be met if the fishermen can be prevented from describing their exploits till Monday morning.

An evening contemporary has the following heading:—