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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914, 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.org Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 Author: Various Release Date: January 18, 2008 [EBook #24358] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH *** Produced by Neville Allen, Malcolm Farmer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. Edited By Owen Seaman. VOL. 146 March 25, 1914. CHARIVARIA. The attention of the AMERICAN AMBASSADOR has been called to the danger of after-dinner speaking. There is many a true word said in digestion--and the truth is apt to hurt sensitive nations. * * * Art circles continue to seethe with indignation over the National Gallery outrage. Even the Post-Impressionists have now no sympathy with the Suffragettes, for they realise that, while in this instance it was only a Velasquez which was injured, next time it might be a sublime Bomberg or a transcendent Wyndham Lewis. * * * Sir HIRAM MAXIM has addressed an open letter to Mrs. PANKHURST containing a number of questions, and asking for certain definite information before he joins her party. Nothing, we believe, would please that party better than to be able to add a Maxim to its armament. * * * A number of Liverpool women, many of whom are Suffragettes, have formed a Women's Church. A feature of this Church will no doubt be the institution of frequent Fasts with a view to training the worshippers to cope with the difficulties of every-day life. * * * A fire brigade composed entirely of girl students successfully fought a fire last week at Wellesley College, a famous American educational institution. A strongly-worded protest against their unwomanly conduct has, we understand, been sent from the headquarters of the W.S.P.U. * * * After much wordy warfare between our contemporary's readers, the proprietors of _The Saturday Westminster Gazette_ have now decided definitely that it shall be printed on white paper, on the ground that this i
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