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September 1st, 1920, by Various

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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 1st, 1920

Author: Various

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Language: English

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 159.

September 1st, 1920.

CHARIVARIA.

A Newcastle miner who was stated to be earning a pound a day has been fined
ten pounds for neglecting his children. The idea of waiting till September
20th and letting Mr. SMILLIE neglect them does not seem to have occurred to
him.

* * *

"Beyond gardening," says a gossip writer, "Mr. SMILLIE has few hobbies." At
the same time there is no doubt he is busy getting together a fine
collection of strikes.

* * *

It is said that AMUNDSEN will not return to civilisation this year. If he
was thinking of Ireland he isn't missing any civilisation worth mentioning.

* * *

"The POET LAUREATE," says a weekly paper, "has not written an ode to
British weather." So that can't be the cause of it.

* * *

A Wolverhampton man weighing seventeen stone, in charging another with
assault, said he heard somebody laughing at him, so he looked round. A man
of that weight naturally would.

* * *

"There is work for everybody who likes to work," says Mr. N. GRATTAN DOYLE,
M.P. It is this tactless way of rubbing it in which annoys so many people.

* * *

A contemporary has a letter from a correspondent who signs himself "Tube
Traveller of Twenty Years' Standing." Somebody ought to offer the poor
fellow a seat.

* * *

In connection with the case of a missing railway-porter one railway line
has decided to issue notices warning travellers against touching porters
while they are in motion.

* * *

"The United States," declares the proprietor of a leading New York hotel,
"is on the eve of going wet again." A subtle move of this kind, with the
object of depriving drink of its present popularity, is said to be mak