The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Apr
2, 1919, by Various, Edited by Owen Seamen

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Apr 2, 1919

Author: Various

Release Date: March 17, 2004 [eBook #11617]

Language: English

Character set encoding: US-ASCII

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI,
VOL. 156, APR 2, 1919***

E-text prepared by Malcolm Farmer, Sandra Brown, and the Project Gutenberg
Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this
file which includes the original illustrations.
See 11617-h.htm or 11617-h.zip:
(http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/6/1/11617/11617-h/11617-h.htm)
or
(http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/6/1/11617/11617-h.zip)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

VOL. 156

APRIL 2, 1919

CHARIVARIA.

A Liverpool grocer was fined last week for overcharging for margarine,
eggs, cheese, ham, bacon, cocoa, jam and suet. Any other nation, it is
pointed out, would have had a man like that at the Peace Conference.

***

The strike of wives, as proposed by a weekly paper, did not
materialise. The husbands' threat to employ black-legs (alleged silk)
appears to have proved effective.

***

A Reigate resident advertises in a daily newspaper for the recovery of
a human jawbone. It is supposed that the owner lost it during a Tube
rush.

***

"London from above," says a _Daily Mail_ correspondent, "is
gloriously, tenderly, wistfully beautiful." We rather gather that it
is the lid of Carmelite House that gives it just that little note of
wistfulness.

***

"How to Prepare Marble Beef" is the subject of a contemporary's "Hints
to Young Housekeepers," We had always supposed that that sort of thing
could be safely left to the butcher.

***

The demobilised members of a Herefordshire band have all grown too
big for their uniforms. The contra-bombardon man, we understand, also
complains that his instrument is too tight round the chest.

***

"The one unselfish friend of man is the dog," said Sir FREDERICK
BANBURY