CHARIVARIA.
No sooner had the League of Nations met at Geneva than news came of the pending retirement of Mr. Charlie Chaplin. We never seem to be able to keep more than one Great Idea going at a time.
"Have you read Mrs. Asquith's Book?" asks an evening paper advertisement. "What book?" may we ask.
"In our generation," says Dean Inge, "there are no great men." It is said that Sir Eric Geddes will not take this lying down.
Since the Gloomy Dean's address at Wigmore Hall it is suggested that the world should be sold to defray expenses while there is yet time.
"What is wanted to-day," says Mr. H. M. Rioden, "is a Destruction of Pests Bill." "Jaded Householder" writes to say that when this becomes law anybody can have the name of his rate-collector.