Produced by Malcolm Farmer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 146. May 27, 1914. CHARIVARIA. We hear that the news of the defeat of Messrs. Travers, Evans ("Chick") and Ouimet in the Amateur Golf Championship was received by President Huerta's troops with round upon round of cheering. Frankly, we think it rather petty of them. *** The statement in _The Daily Mail_ to the effect that about two million pounds have been sunk in the new German liner _Vaterland_ is apt to be misconstrued, and we are requested to state that the vessel is still afloat. *** There was a fire at the Press Club off Fleet Street last week, but we refuse absolutely to credit the rumour that this was the work of a member anxious that his paper should have first news of the conflagration. *** We came across a flagrant example, the other day, of an advertisement that did not speak the truth. Seated on the top of an omnibus were six persons with most regrettable faces. Underneath them was an inscription, which ran the length of the knife-board:-- "Things we'd like to know." *** Persons who are hesitating to visit the Anglo-American Exposition may like to know that the representation of New York there is not so realistic as to be unpleasant. *** Mr. A. Kipling Common writes to _The Daily Mail_ deploring England's lack of great men. We are sorry that _The Times_ should be so shy in using its power to remedy this defect. Letters from the great are always printed by our contemporary in large type. A few promotions might surely be distributed now and then among the small-type men? *** A friendly intimation is said to have been conveyed by the Royal Academy to a restaurant in the immediate neighbourhood which advertises an Academy luncheon that its name might with advantage be changed to one of a nature less inciting to Suffragettes. We refer to Hatchett's. *** Is cannibalism to be Society's latest fad? We notice that somebody's Skin Food is being advertised pretty freely. *** The Criterion Restaurant, we see, is advertising a "_Souper Dansant_." Personally we dislike the kind of supper which, when eaten, will not lie down and rest. *** It looks, we fear, as if in _Break the Walls Down_ the Savoy Theatre has not found a play which will _Bring the House Down_. *** The proposal that a "full blue" should be awarded at Cambridge to those who represent the University at boxing was recently considered but not adopted. We should have thought that a "black and blue" would have been the appropriate thing. *** Some idea of the heat last week may be gathered from the following order issued by the Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps:-- INTER-COMPANY COMPETITION. Dress:--Two pouches will be worn on the right. ***