What in the old-fashioned days caused “the wig” to be discarded?

Weight.

The following curious peace anagrams are appropriate in these days of disturbance. Each set of words between inverted commas contain exactly the same letters:—

“To escape fray” I ever “stay for peace,”
In “quiet times,” too, “I’m quite set” at ease:
Let no “vile words” provoke the “evil sword,”
Lest “red war” come, and bring its own “reward.”

Why does the old proverb “Birds of a feather flock together” form a mystic link between us and our cousins in America?

Because the same letters recast spell out the patriotic sentence, It rocks the broad flag of the free!

What, by their anagram, are “platitudes?”

Stupid tales.

Why is there a measure to “disappointment?”

Because it is made in pint pots.