Nobody could congratulate Mother Turk and Father Ferdinand on the son (Turco-Bulgar Agreement) Doctor Kaiser has just helped into the world. It would hardly be tactful for the closest friend to hazard a statement that it favoured either parent.
XXVI.
A POLISH CARTOONIST
XXVII.
M. d'Ostoya, the well-known Polish artist, has published in Paris, during the war, a very strong series of drawings, both in colour and in black. Of this series the two shown here are among the best-contrasted.
Says the Prussian Officer: "Who is it who commands here? You, a simple little Jew, or I—who have thirteen quarterings of nobility?"
Gott mit uns!
Qui est-ce qui commande ici, toi qui n'es qu'un
simple petit juif ou moi qui possède treize quartiers de noblesse?