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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920

Author: Various

Editor: Owen Seaman

Release Date: April 21, 2010 [EBook #32081]

Language: English

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOLUME 158, Jan-Jul 1920

June 23, 1920.

CHARIVARIA.

Kieff has been retaken by the Bolshevists. It looks as if the Poles
will have to win the place three times in succession before it becomes
their own property.

* * *

Annoyed by a small boy who was sucking sweets and laughing a parson
recently stopped in the middle of his sermon and refused to go on
with it. We are informed that the boy in question has since received
several tempting offers from other parishes.

* * *

A motorist, summoned the other week, admitted to having knocked three
people down one day and two people the next. If only this progress can
be steadily maintained!

* * *

Traffic in Finsbury Park was considerably delayed the other day by
a crowd which collected in the main street in order to watch two
bricklayers who had deliberately removed their coats.

* * *

A weekly paper states that the winding up of the Ministry of Munitions
will not be completed until next year. After all it is just as well
not to rush things.

* * *

"Only the small boy knows the joys of ice cream," says an evening
paper. Inside information, we presume.

* * *

A New York writer thinks that a man with a large family of girls is
fortunate. On the contrary, in these days, just as he gets the last
one married off, the first gets a divorce and comes back home.

* * *

"The secret of health," said Professor DARSONVAL of the French Academy
of Science, "is to walk on the toes." This is better than the plan
adopted by Tube travellers of walking on other people's.

* * *

At the Business Exhibition there was shown a waistcoat-pocket
calculator guarante