Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917Various
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917
Various
English wit and humor -- Periodicals
All no! Thine happiness I will not vex,
For thou art Woman once again I find;
And Woman, though she cannot change her sex,
Has always had the right to change her mind.
* * * * *
THE PRIMROSE PATH FOR FLAPPERS.
"WANTED, Two experi. MAKERS-UP (Females); also a few Girls to
learn; good wages paid."--_Evening Paper_.
* * * * *
ANOTHER IMPENDING APOLOGY.
From an obituary notice:--
"In civil life he was employed as an attendant on those
inflicted with weak minds. He joined the regiment at ---- Camp
and was at once employed as Colonel ----'s servant."--_Burma
Paper_.
* * * * *
"Mars is the name of a star so far off it would take a million
years to walk there in an express train."
"A miracle is anything that someone does that can't be done."
"People who have always used tooth-brushes and who know the
thing to do never use any but their own."
"The Pagans were a contented race until the Christians came
among them."--_Hawaii Educational Review_.
If _The Review_ can maintain this form the consciously comic journals
of the American Empire will have to look to their laurels.
* * * * *
[Illustration: THE RECRUIT WHO TOOK TO IT KINDLY.]
* * * * *
[Illustration: _Super-Boy_. "BUT, FATHER, IF WE HAVE ALREADY
CONQUERED, WHY DOES THE WAR GO ON?"
_Super-Man_. "BE SILENT AND EAT YOUR HINDENBERG ROCK."]
* * * * *
WAR'S SURPRISES.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF "TAY PAY."
[_The Daily Chronicle_ alludes to a recent article by Mr. T.P.
O'CONNOR, M.P., as "a frigid survey of the situation."]
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