Produced by Neville Allen, Malcolm Farmer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 147. NOVEMBER 11, 1914. CHARIVARIA. "In Buenos Aires and other parts of Argentina," _The Express_ tells us, "people are tired of the war, and a brisk trade is being done in the sale of buttons to be worn by the purchaser, inscribed with the words '_No me habla de la guerra_' ('Don't talk to me about the war')." The KAISER, we understand, has now sent for one of these buttons. * * * The Crown Prince RUPPRECHT of Bavaria, in an order to his troops last week, referred to the British in the following words:--"Here is the enemy which chiefly blocks the way in the direction of restoration of peace." Conceive a "contemptible little army" being able to do that! It makes one wonder whether the first epithet was perhaps a misprint for "contemptuous." * * * The Germans are now calling the Allies a Menagerie, though curiously enough it is the others who have a Turkey waddling after them. * * * According to a report which reaches us the crews of the _Goeben_ and _Breslau_ are wearing a most curious garb, being clothed in Turkish fezes and breaches of neutrality. * * * "GERMANS MOWED DOWN FRENCH MARINES' BIG FEET." _Irish Independent._ This is really a most unfortunate misprint, for it is just this kind of carping statement that leads the Germans to say we are falling out with our Allies. * * * There is much speculation as to whether there is German blackmail behind the announcement that the maximum period of quarantine for imported dogs has been reduced from six months to four. * * * The only animals left alive in the Antwerp Zoo are reported to be the elephants, which are now being used for military traction purposes. Later on it is proposed by the Germans to drive them into the lines of the Indian troops with a view to making the latter home-sick. * * * Mr. ALGERNON ASHTON asks in _The Evening News_, "Why is the Poet Laureate so strangely silent?" Everyone else will remember Mr. BRIDGES' patriotic lines at the beginning of the War, and we begin to suspect that Mr. ASHTON'S well-known repugnance to writing for the papers has been extended to the reading of them. * * * _The Daily Mirror_, to signalise its eleventh birthday, produced a "Monster Number," yet it contained no portrait of the KAISER. * * * Happening to meet a music-hall acquaintance we asked him how he thought the war was going, and he replied, "Oh, I think the managers will have to give in." * * * America is evidently attempting to attract some of the devotees of winter sports who usually go to Switzerland. Another landslide on the Panama Canal is now announced. * * *