FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   >>  
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 30th, 1920, by Various 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. 158, June 30th, 1920 Author: Various Release Date: September 4, 2005 [EBook #16640] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 158. June 30th, 1920. CHARIVARIA. Fewer births are recorded in Ireland during the past seven months. No surprise can be felt, for we cannot imagine anybody being born in Ireland on purpose just now. * * * A London firm are now manufacturing what they call the smallest motor-car on the market. How great a boon this will be to the general public will be gathered from the report that one of these cars has been knocked down by a pedestrian. * * * According to a Sunday paper MUSTAPHA KEMAL wants as soldiers only those who will die for their belief in his cause. Previous experience is not essential. * * * Citizens of Ealing have protested against Sunday concerts unless Sunday bathing is also permitted. The pre-war custom of merely sponging the ears after attending a recital was never wholly satisfactory. * * * According to an inscription on the score card of the North Berwick Club, "golf is a science in which you may exhaust yourself but never your subject." Several clubs, however, claim to possess colonels who can say practically all that is worth saying about the game without stopping to get their second wind. * * * Girls have broadened out a lot, declared a speaker at the annual conference of the Head-mistresses' Association. The home-made jumper, it appears, has been coming in for a good deal of unmerited blame. * * * A middle-aged man was charged at the Thames Police Court the other day with having an altercation with a lamp-post. It appears that the man called the lamp-post "Pussyfoot," and the latter promptly knocked him down. * * * Special courts, it is stated, are to be set up for the trial of Irish criminals. The
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   >>  



Top keywords:

London

 

Sunday

 

According

 

knocked

 

Ireland

 

appears

 

Various

 

Charivari

 

Project

 
Gutenberg

science

 

concerts

 

Berwick

 

exhaust

 

subject

 
bathing
 

Several

 

Ealing

 

attending

 

recital


custom

 

sponging

 

protested

 
Citizens
 

inscription

 

satisfactory

 

wholly

 
essential
 

permitted

 

Thames


charged

 

Police

 
middle
 

coming

 

unmerited

 

altercation

 

stated

 

courts

 

criminals

 

Special


called

 

Pussyfoot

 

promptly

 

jumper

 

stopping

 

practically

 
possess
 

colonels

 

conference

 
annual