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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 - Various Various

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 12, 1920, by Various, Edited by Owen Seaman

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      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 12, 1920

      Author: Various

      Editor: Owen Seaman

      Release Date: December 31, 2007 [eBook #24095]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 158, MAY 12, 1920***

      E-text prepared by Nigel Blower, Jonathan Ingram,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 158.

      May 12th, 1920.

      CHARIVARIA.

      We are pleased to note that the King’s yacht Britannia is about again after being laid up since August, 1914.

      Smoking and chatting periods have been introduced in some Massachusetts factories. Extremists in this country complain that, while this system may be all right, there is just the danger that working periods might also be introduced.

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      Audiences at the music-halls, writes an actor to the Press, are more difficult to move on Saturdays than on other days. This is not our experience. On a Saturday we have often withdrawn without any pressure after the first turn or two.

      Sir L. Worthington Evans, says a contemporary, has been asked to investigate the mutton glut. What is wanted, we understand, is more glutton and less mutt.

      Mme. Landru, the wife of the Parisian Bluebeard, has been granted a divorce. We gather that there is something or other about her husband which made their tastes incompatible.

      It appears that Mr. Jerry McVeagh is of the opinion that the Home Rule Bill is quite all right except where it applies to Ireland.

      A visit to the Royal Academy this year again encourages us to believe that, though we may be a bad nation, we are not so bad as we are painted.

      According to a morning paper a commercial traveller who became violently ill in the Strand was found to have a small feather stuck in the lower part of the throat. If people will eat fresh eggs in restaurants they must be prepared to put up with the consequences.

      The report that no inconvenience was experienced by any of the passengers in the South London train which collided with a stationary goods-engine now turns out to be incorrect. It transpires that a flapper complains that she dropped two stitches in her jumper as a result of the shock.

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