From the Soldiers and Sailors Dental Aid Fund (43, Leicester Square), which has done exceptional service during the War, comes the story of an old lady who applied for a set of teeth for her soldier grandson. When asked if he would know how to take care of them, she replied that she would give him the benefit of her own experience, having always made it a rule to remove her artificial teeth at meal times.
Two cuttings from one issue of The Egyptian Mail:—
"TREMENDOUS INCREASE IN RECRUITING.
ANOTHER 1,000,000,000 MEN WANTED."
"Wanted proof-reader for the Egyptian Mail."
It certainly does want one; but for the sake of the gaiety of nations we trust it won't get him.
"With regard to the expeditionary force, the unexampled heroism and determination of our troops enabled them to establish a foothold on the tip of the peninsula, but photographs confirm the reports of eye-witnesses that they were literally holding on by their eyelids to the positions they had occupied."—Sunday Times.
And the subsequent abandonment was performed like winking.
From a draper's notice:—