By Garcia Benito.
The Marchioness: "Dear me—in uniform one can't tell mine from yours!"
XXXV.
XXXVI.
"THE SILENT ONE"—JOFFRE.
By Leandre, the allegorical cartoonist, in Le Rire Rouge, Paris.
The reputation for silence enjoyed by General Joffre is better-founded than is always the case with the reputed characteristics of great men. In the course of being shaved at a Paris barber's recently, an English client was told that General Joffre had for fifteen years been a regular customer at the shop. "And what sort of person is he really?" "I don't know, sir—he never said anything!"
