One morning, as he was walking down the street, he saw a group of his old pals standing at the corner.
Going up to the group, he said, “Now, lads, what do you say about joining the colors? You know, I didn’t get these stripes for standing at street corners.”
“Nowe,” replied one of his pals, “if they’d gi’n stripes for that tha’d ’a’ bin a bloomin’ zebra bi neaw.”
THIS ORIGINATED IN NEW YORK
In one of the French restaurants in Soho, where there had been a fight a few nights before, the following was at once posted in large type:—
“The war will be settled abroad. Please do not start anything here.”
An enterprising man has printed these placards in large quantities, and is selling them to the restaurants frequented by persons of various nationalities now at war abroad.
TWO POINTS OF VIEW
The Family Man—“The cost of everything is increasing at a terrible rate.”
The Military Expert—“Not everything. According to statistics in former wars it cost fifteen thousand dollars to kill a man, but now, with improved ordnance and ammunition, it can be done for one-third of that.”