Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920
What we have got to do, says Lord Rothermere, is to keep calm and mind our own business, instead of worrying about the affairs of every other nation. It seems only fair to point out that The Daily News thought of this as long ago as August, 1914.
Gooseberries the size of bantams' eggs, says a news item, won a prize at the Deeside Horticultural Show. When we remember the giant gooseberries of a decade ago it rather looks as if the nation were losing its nerve.
With reference to the messenger seen running in Whitehall the other day a satisfactory explanation has now been given. He was doing it for the cinema.
The average Scot, says an Anti-Prohibition writer, cannot stand many drinks. Our experience supports this view; but he can be stood a good many.
A picture-paper gossip states that Mr. Churchill enjoys very good health. Just a touch of writer's cramp now and then, of course.
In a recent riot in Londonderry, it is stated, a number of inoffensive neutrals were set upon and beaten by rowdies of both factions. We have constantly maintained that Irish unity can always be secured when there is something really worth uniting over.
A lighthouse is advertised for sale in The Times . It is said to be just the kind of residence for a tall man with sloping shoulders.
A correspondent asks in the weekly press for a new name for charabancs. We wish we could think there was any use in calling them names.
Seaside bathers are advised not to enter the water after a heavy meal. The seaside visitor who could pay for such a meal would naturally not have enough left to pay for a bathing-machine.
A Thames bargee was knocked down by a taxi-cab at Kingston-on-Thames last week. A well-known firm has offered to publish his remarks in fortnightly parts.
The West Dulwich man who struck a rate-collector on the head with a telephone claims credit for finding some use for these instruments.
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Vol. 159.
August 25th, 1920.
CHARIVARIA.
The Growth of the Side-Car.
AN APOLOGY TO THE BENCH.
IF WE ALL TOOK TO MARGOTRY.
"THE LION OF LUCERNE."
THE RABBITS GAME.
FLOWERS' NAMES.
FIRST LOVE AND LAST.
HARD TIMES FOR HEROINES.
EVIDENCE.
MANNERS AND MODES.
THOUGHTS ON "THE TIMES."
PRONE.
THE KELPIE.
TO A MAKER OF PILLS.
THE "HOUSE"-BREAKER.
GEORGE, JANE AND LENIN.
The Old Order Changes.
LUCERNE.
"TO HIM THAT HATH ..."
THE ROMANCE OF ADVERTISEMENT.
THE RETURN OF THE COLONEL.
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO.
AT THE PLAY.
A SUPER-SURPRISE.
OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.