Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 15, 1919, by Various, Edited by Owen Seamen
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A memorial to SIMON DE MONTFORT has been unveiled at Evesham, where he fell in 1265. A pathetic inquiry reaches us as to whether SIMON is yet demobilised.
We are informed that the project of adding a Silence Room to the National Liberal Club is to be resuscitated.
Small one piece houses of concrete, says The National News , are now quite common in America. The only complaint, it appears, is that some of them are just a trifle tight under the arms.
We hope that the proposed revival by a well-known theatre manager of The Sins of David so shortly after the General Election is not the work of a defeated Candidate.
Some of the discredited Radical organs, says a contemporary, are already toying with Bolshevism. A case of Soviet qui peut .
The report that a number of distinguished Irish Unionists have been ordered to choose between the LORD-LIEUTENANT's Reconstruction Committee and the O.B.E. is causing anxiety in Dublin Club circles.
Weymouth Council has decided to change the name of Holstein Avenue. We deprecate these attempts to force the Peace Conference's hand.
Mr. HENRY FORD's new paper is called The Dearborn Independent . Most independent papers, it is noticed, are that.
Why has the Government raised the price of new sharps? asks FARMER in The Daily Mail . They may cost more, but they look to us like the same old sharps.