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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 2, 1917
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 2, 1917
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 2, 1917
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 2, 1917

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 2, 1917 - Various Various

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      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 2, 1917

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      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 152.

      May 2nd, 1917.

      CHARIVARIA

      .

      WE envy the freshness of America's experience as a member of the Alliance. New York will hold its first flag day on June 2nd.

      America is anxious to see a settlement of the Irish Question, but there is no truth in the rumour that we have cabled to say that we will take on Mexico if America will take on Ireland.

      VON IHNE, the KAISER'S Court architect, is dead. It is thought that future alterations to the House of Hohenzollern will not reflect, as heretofore, the ALL-HIGHEST'S personal taste.

      Stern measures for King Tino, says a contemporary. We have always felt that that is where the castigation should take place.

      The Daily Chronicle reminds us that Downing Street owes its origin to an American. There are some people who never will let bygones be bygones.

      Whole haystacks are said to have been eaten in a night by mice in Victoria, Australia. The failure of Mr. HUGHES to provide a state cat in each rural area may, it is thought, prove to be the deciding factor in the present election campaign.

      The Tageblatt points out that in view of the extreme goodwill of Germany towards Spain that country cannot possibly find any grievance in the torpedoing of her ships. This assurance of uninterrupted friendliness has confirmed the worst fears of the pessimists in Madrid.

      Mr. BALFOUR, it is stated, has invited President WILSON to play a game of golf. In the event of a match being arranged there is a growing desire that the occasion should be made a half-holiday throughout the war-area.

      The Ministry of Shipping, it is stated, employs only 830 persons. This violent departure from the recognised Parliamentary rule, that a Minister who cannot find use for a couple of thousand employees should resign, has gone far to undermine the popularity of this Department.

      Owing to the shortage of corn on which race-horses must be fed, ordinary handicaps will soon have to be abandoned. The idea of putting the horseradish to the use for which it was originally intended does not seem to have struck the imagination of trainers.

      The Director of Women's Service has issued an appeal for several thousand milkmaids. These must not be confused with milksops who are being taken care of by other Departments.

      I have heard more bad music at temperance meetings, says Dr. SALEEBY, than I knew the world could contain. The temperance people are certainly having persistent bad luck.

      The keenest minds in Germany, says a Berlin correspondent, are now seeking to discover the secret of the Fatherland's world-wide unpopularity. It is this absurd sensitiveness on the part of our cultured opponent that is causing some of her best friends in this country to lose hope.

      A swallow has been seen over the Hollow Ponds at Epping Forest, but The Daily Mail is still silent as to whether Spring has arrived or not.

      New Laid Eggs, Sir JOHN MILLAIS' masterpiece, has recently been sold for £1,155. It is reported that last December, when it looked as if the egg might become extinct, a much higher price was offered for the picture.

      In the absence of other grain, hens are to be fed upon frostbitten wheat imported from Canada. Poultry-keepers anticipate that it will result in a greatly increased number of china eggs being laid by their stock.

      A correspondent of a morning paper complains that while the entire nation is on rations our Germans, naturalised and unnaturalised, continue to eat in the usual way. This is not true of the ones we have heard.

      In view of the excessive rains of late, we are glad to

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