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It is proposed that Parliament shall sit from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.,
instead of from 3 to 11 P.M. We do not care for this crude attempt to
mix business with politics.
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The Boundary Commission Report advocates the creation of thirty-one
new M.P.'s. It will be a bitter disappointment for those who were
sanguine enough to hope that Redistribution would spell Reform.
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The Government has commandeered all stocks of rum. The rigours of war,
it seems, must be suffered even by our little tots.
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[Illustration: _The Wit._ "AH, NOW YOU'RE FOR IT, ALBERT?"
_Tractor-Driver._ "WOT'S THE MATTER?"
_The Wit._ "WHY, YOU'VE BEEN AND GONE AND COME ON PARADE WITHOUT
YOUR SPURS."]
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"The bridegroom, 6 ft. 35 ins. in height, was wearing the
full-dress uniform of a captain in the Army."--_Great
Yarmouth Independent_.
He would need it all.
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Headline to a description of a recent push:--
"VONDERFUL RESULTS."--_Evening Paper_.
The "Hidden Hand" in the composing-room?
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THE INNOCENTS ABROAD.
["Stedfastness and righteousness are the qualities which the
German people value in the highest degree, and which have brought
it a good and honourable reputation in the whole world.
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