PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 150.
APRIL 19, 1916.
CONTENTS:CHARIVARIA. —METHODS OF A GERMAN MISSIONARY. —UNWRITTEN LETTERS TO THE KAISER. —GRASS VALLEY ARMISTICE. —SAINT GEORGE OF ENGLAND. —GLORY O' ENGLAND. —THE ROLLING STONE. —ROUND ABOUT THE RESTAURANTS. —ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. —A NIGHT OUT WITH A ZEPPELIN. —TO CHARLOTTE BRONTË. —AN UNRECORDED ENGAGEMENT. —ECONOMY IN THE PRESS. —NOT RUNNING TO SEED. —NURSERY RHYMES OF LONDON TOWN. —OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
Overworked and exasperated Colonel (who has told Adjutant to answer the telephone). 'Well, what the blazes do they want?'
Adjutant. "It's the C.O. of the Blankshires, Sir; wants you to repeat thefunny story you told him last night at mess."
CHARIVARIA.
The recent Zeppelin raids have not been without their advantages. In aspirit of emulation an ambitious hen at Acton has laid an egg weighing5-1/4 oz.
The opponents of Colonel Roosevelt regard the advice given in the titleof his new book, Fear God and take your own part, to be unusuallymoderate as coming from one who, whatever he may have said to the contrary,is very generally suspected of being prepared to take the part that isat present being played by President Wilson.
At a meeting of the "No-Conscription Fellowship" last week, Mr. PhilipSnowden referred to the Conscientious Objectors as the "Salt of theEarth." Perhaps, but we don't care to have them rubbed into us.
Germany has addressed a Note to the United States explaining that theSussex could not possibly have been torpedoed for the reason that thesubmarine commander who sank the vessel had no difficulty in drawinga picture of her which closely resembled a totally different ship.
It is announced that the care of the great vine at Hampton Court has beentaken over by the Office of Works from the Board of Green Cloth. It isrumoured that the latter body, which has been of late somewhat lost sightof, is to be entrusted with the general supervision of our aerial forces.
So successful have been the electrically-heated footwarmers suppliedto the