PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Vol. 150.
March 29, 1916.
Fond Mother. "Anything in the paper, dear?"
Wage-earner (not unkindly). "No, Ma—nothing you could understand."
CHARIVARIA.
"His seventy-one years sit lightly onMr. Gibson Bowles," says the SpecialCorrespondent of The Evening News.No doubt Mr. Bowles has some goodreason for permitting this familiarity,for he is not a man to be lightly satupon.
"In particular," says a report on theresources of German East Africa, "thePresident of the Silk Association has justdirected attention to the wild silkof the anaphe worm." The animalthe great two-horned silkworm discovered by SirHarry Johnston, before whose furiouscharges, according to the report ofnatives, even the elephant will give way.
A telegram from Rome states that itis generally believed that AdmiralTirpitz resigned because he could nottake the German Fleet out. Othersagain maintain that it was becausehe could no longer take the Germanpeople in.
It was recently stated in a ParliamentaryReport that verminous uniformshad been purchased by theGovernment for the sum of £2,650 andimmediately resold for £400. Thedifference is accounted for by the factthat they were sold as going concerns.
A white rook has been observed atBoston Road, Brentford, and a localornithologist writes to say that the birdis probably an accidental straggler fromKing's Bishop's Fourth.
"To-day in many English homes,"says a patriotic contemporary, "alienbirds are carolling all unconscious oftheir countries' doom." One had independentlynoticed how the modulatedof the Turkey buzzard hadtaken on a mournful tone.
"It is not unusual for horses to goto sleep as they walk along," said asagacious coroner last week. How oftenin the old four-wheeler days, when wewere going ventre a terre from BuckinghamPalace to the National LiberalClub, conversation was rendered impossibleby the snores of the flying steed.
The price of admission to Kew forperambulators is 3d. on ordinary days,1s. on student days. The extra chargehas been found necessary because ofthe fact that large numbers of horticulturists,in order to escape militaryservice, have taken to travelling inthese vehicles.
According to the author of In aCollege Garden "it is not advisableto encourage any but educated ladiesto become gardeners." It is alwayspleasant to note the extent to which asimple thing like a potato will recogniseand respond to gentility in thosewho associate with it.
"The Italian Ambassador opened the exhibitionof the Royal Society of Brush Artists atthe society's premises in Suffolk-street."
Evening Paper.
Mr. Punch welcomes the implicit admissionthat there are others.
..."What is needed is that we should have oneach of the main lines of our overseas communicationsat least one ship that is fasterthan anything else afloat."—ManchesterGuardian.