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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 8th, 1920

Author: Various

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 159.

September 8th, 1920.

CHARIVARIA.

There are rumours of Prohibition in Scotland. We can only say that if
Scotland goes dry it will also go South.

* * *

By an order of the FOOD CONTROLLER rice has been freed from all
restrictions as regards use. This drastic attempt to stem the prevailing
craze for matrimony has not come a moment too soon.

* * *

We suppose it is due to pressure of business, but the Spanish Cabinet has
not resigned this week.

* * *

_The Daily Mail_ is offering one hundred pounds for the best new hat for
men. The cocked hat into which Mr. SMILLIE hopes to knock the country is,
of course, excluded from the competition.

* * *

A horse at Chichester has been run down by a train. Asked how he came to
catch up with the horse the driver said he just let her rip.

* * *

Despite the repeated reports of his resignation in the London papers, Mr.
DAVIS, the American Ambassador to Britain, states that he does not intend
to retire. This contempt for English newspapers will be justifiably
resented.

* * *

Mrs. LILLIAN RUSSELL, of Rockland, Mass., is reported to have offered to
sell her husband for twenty thousand pounds. It is a great consolation to
those of us who are husbands that they are fetching such high prices.

* * *

The road-menders in Oxford Street who went on strike have now resumed work.
The discovery was made by a spectator who saw one of them move.

* * *

A contemporary reports the prospect of fair weather for another three
weeks. It looks as if Mr. SMILLIE is going to have a fine day for it after
all.

* * *

A New York message states that the congregation of a New Jersey church
pelted the