PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOLUME 150.
May 17, 1916.
Customer. "Have you my Pass Book?"
Overworked Cashier. "Did you leave it with us?"
Customer. "I don't know, but I thought you might as well look for it
before I do."
CHARIVARIA.
"We can never talk of the theatre without harking back to the playitself," says "The Matinée Girl" in The Evening News. Funny how theseirrelevant trifles will obtrude themselves into the most facile critic'strain of thought.
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So simple and successful has been the progress of the Daylight-SavingScheme, under which the clock is to be put forward an hour during thesummer months, that a movement is on foot to help the War Officeprophets by putting the War back a couple of years.
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It is not generally known that during the week ending May 7th a fourthZeppelin was sunk by H.M.S. Feuilleton.
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A tremendous boom in canaries is reported from New York. The colour isbelieved to be a favourite one with the hyphenated.
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Breconshire County Council is proposing to abolish Sunday fishing. It isfelt, however, that the demands of the Sabbath will be met if thefishermen can be prevented from describing their exploits till Mondaymorning.
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An evening contemporary has the following heading:—
"Hindenburg Seedy.
Petrograd tale of a gloomy 'Papa' and an angry Below."
Can the Prussian idol have contracted so vulgar an ailment as a pain inhis underneath?
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Sabadilla, it appears, is a plant of the Lily family, from which isextracted a poison that forms the basis of the German "tear" shells. Anallied form, "Crocodilla," also possessing lachrymatory properties, islikewise extensively used by the German Government.
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It is observed that the Committee to investigate the administration andcommand of the Royal Flying Corps is composed of four lawyers and twoengineers. The large proportion of "doers" to "talkers"—nearly half thetotal—is a startling innovation in British public affairs and asatisfactory sign that the Government is thoroughly awake to the gravityof the situation.
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"Pawn-tickets are evidences of real poverty—when a man pawns his shirtsand so on," said Judge Cluer recently at Whitechapel. "And so off" wouldhave been a more logical way of putting it.
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A Camberwell recruit has taken a white mouse in his pocket as a mascot.It is to be hoped that he will not get into a tight corner and becompelled to hoist the white