There is a power, my friends,
That disciplines our loud-hued nether ends.
Still, he consoles himself with the reflection that he still can wear his heart "up his sleeve," thus recalling the new definition of a gentleman given some years earlier in suburban circles as one who wore his handkerchief up his cuff.
Host: "How do you like the course?"
Visitor: "Well, I don't wish to appear ungrateful, but I should like to lie down!"
Passionate Socks and Knickerbockers
Owing to the increasing skimpiness of skirts and the cult of slimness, the approximation of male and female attire reached a point in 1911 which suggested to one of Punch's artists a new Sex Question puzzle. But while the female "nut" was becoming indistinguishable from the male, the male golfer had come to affect a bagginess of knickerbockers recalling the exuberance of the female cyclist of two decades earlier, and, as Punch showed, exceedingly ill-suited for progress in a high wind.
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