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    Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914
    Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914
    Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914
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    Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914

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      Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 - Various Various

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      Title: Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914

      Author: Various

      Release Date: July 27, 2009 [EBook #29522]

      Language: English

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      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      VOLUME 147.

      December 23, 1914.

      CHARIVARIA.

      An exceptionally well-informed Berlin newspaper has discovered that, owing to the war, Ireland is suffering from a horse famine, and many of the natives are now to be seen driving cattle.

      An appeal is being made in Germany for cat-skins for the troops. In their Navy, on the other hand, they often get the cat itself.

      In offering congratulations to the Green Howards on the work they have been doing at the Front, Major-General Capper said, I knew it was a regiment I could hang my hat on at any time of the day or night. The expression is perhaps a little unfortunate; it sounds as if they had been pegging out.

      Private F. Nailor, of the Royal Berkshires, was at his home at Sandhurst last week when the postman brought a letter from the War Office reporting that he had been killed in action. While his being alive is, of course, in these circumstances an act of gross insubordination, the Army Council will, we understand, content itself with an intimation that it must not happen again.

      A cigar presented by the Kaiser to Lord Lonsdale has been sold at Henley in aid of the local Red Cross Hospital, and has become the property of a butcher at the price of £14 10s. Will it, we wonder, now be inscribed, From a brother butcher?

      According to the Berliner Tageblatt Western Australia is interning her alien enemies on Rottnest Island. If there is anything in a name, this does seem a rather unhappy choice, in view of the well-known sensitiveness of the German.

      It is curious how in war time really important occurrences are apt to escape one's notice. For example, it was not until we read an article in a contemporary last week on The Demise of the Slim Skirt that we realised that Fat Skirts were now the vogue.

      Of all forms of cruelty the most hideous is that which is perpetrated on defenceless little children, and we hear with regret that the Register of Births in Liverpool now includes the following names:—Kitchener Ernest Pickles, Jellicoe Jardine, French Donaldson, and Joffre Venmore.

      With reference to our recent remarks about Mr. J. Ward's so-called mixed metaphor of a horse bolting with money, a gentlemen writes to us from Epsom to say that he has personally put money on more than one horse which bolted.

      The War would certainly seem to have led to better feeling in the Labour world between masters and men, and from a recent paragraph in The Daily Mail we learn that there is now a London Association of Master Decorators. The idea is a pretty one. Iron Crosses, perhaps?

      The War has worked other wonders. Not the least of these, a Stock Exchange friend points out, is that lots of Bulls and Bears are now comrades in arms.

      "New Phase in Russia.

      Germans changing their dispositions."

      Daily Mail.

      We are glad to hear this, for they used to have simply beastly ones.

      Orderly. "

      Your Majesty, I have been sent to ask for detailed instructions about the Christmas dinner to be held at Buckingham Pal

      ——"

      Wilhelm.——!——!!

      Another secret revealed by Mr. Hamilton Fyfe:—

      As usual when they take the initiative, the Russian troops swept the enemy before them. They first cleared out the trenches and then pursued the Germans.—Daily Mail.

      In the West we still cling to the old-fashioned method of first clearing out the Germans and then pursuing the trenches.

      SOME LITERARY WAR-NOTES.

      Messrs. Harrap have just brought out William the Silent. This is not a biography of the Kaiser.

      Nor is The Hound of Heaven, a new edition of which is announced by Messrs. Chatto and Windus.

      Mr. Edward Cressy's Discoveries and Inventions of the Twentieth Century makes no mention, curiously enough, of the Wolff Bureau. We look in vain, too, among the Yuletide publications for a book of Fairy Tales by William Hohenzollern. This does not speak well for the alertness of our publishers.

      Messrs. Jack, we see, have

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