Journalistic Candour.
Heading to the Stop-Press column of a Provincial Paper:—
"LATEST RAW NEWS."
"Motorcycle. Give £25 (maximum) and exquisite diamond ring (engagement broken off)."—Motor Cycling.
No sidecar required.
"Maeterlinck, the great Austrian statesman, looked with suspicion on all kinds of suggestions of reform or agitation."
Provincial Paper.
So unlike Metternich, the famous Belgian bee-farmer.
"Young Baby—Wanted, homely woman to take charge of duration of war."
Wood Green Sentinel.
If she will only finish it satisfactorily—the War, we mean, not the baby—we don't mind how homely she is.
Under the heading of "Horses, Harness, &c.":—
"Offer, cheap—Horse Chestnuts, 6 to 8 feet; Scotch, 2 to 3 feet; Spruce, about 2 feet; also Privet, Lilacs, Laurels, etc."
Irish Times.
We are quite glad to see this old joke in harness again.
"Tourists are permitted to carry cameras and use them as long as they do not attempt to take fortresses."
Russian Year Book.
These 4.7 cameras are deadly things for siege work.
"Quite the tit-bit of the evening was the little interlude in the duet from 'Faust' taken by Mr. H—— as Faust and Mr. B—— P—— as Mephistopheles. 'His Satanic Majesty' sings—
"'What is your will? At once tell me.
Are you afraid?'"
Accrington Observer.
Is this "My dear Tino" under another name?