Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Apr 2, 1919, by Various, Edited by Owen Seamen
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A Liverpool grocer was fined last week for overcharging for margarine, eggs, cheese, ham, bacon, cocoa, jam and suet. Any other nation, it is pointed out, would have had a man like that at the Peace Conference.
The strike of wives, as proposed by a weekly paper, did not materialise. The husbands' threat to employ black-legs (alleged silk) appears to have proved effective.
A Reigate resident advertises in a daily newspaper for the recovery of a human jawbone. It is supposed that the owner lost it during a Tube rush.
London from above, says a Daily Mail correspondent, is gloriously, tenderly, wistfully beautiful. We rather gather that it is the lid of Carmelite House that gives it just that little note of wistfulness.
How to Prepare Marble Beef is the subject of a contemporary's Hints to Young Housekeepers, We had always supposed that that sort of thing could be safely left to the butcher.
The demobilised members of a Herefordshire band have all grown too big for their uniforms. The contra-bombardon man, we understand, also complains that his instrument is too tight round the chest.
The one unselfish friend of man is the dog, said Sir FREDERICK BANBURY, M.P. A less courageous man would certainly have mentioned the PRESIDENT of the United States.
A correspondent who signs himself Selborne writes to inform us that about 9 A.M. last Thursday he noticed a pair of labourers building within a stone's-throw of Catford Bridge.
A Hendon man has just completed sixty-two years in a church choir. Few choir-boys can boast of such a record.