--------------------------------------- [Illustration: THE UNKINDEST CUT HE: "I grew a beard and moustache for ten years, and I forgot what I was like without, so I just shaved to see." SHE: "And weren't you shocked?"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: "Hillo, Bill--blind again?" "I beg pardon, I'm not blind at all; asha-matterer-fac, I can see twiche-ash-much as you."] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: "Say, would you be so stupid as to lend me 5s.?"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: IN HER WAR-PAINT] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: FAST AND LOOSE] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: OBVIOUS] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: MONSIEUR SARDOU] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: PLEASANT MEMORIES "Ah, it's many a day since I 'ad it!"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: SHE: "It must be a dreadful thing to become old and ugly. I should much prefer to die young." HE: "You'll have to hurry up then!"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: "I have a Song to Sing O."] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN MR. BEERBOHM TREE] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: A NASTY ONE WRYMUG: "I assure you the blamed fog was so thick I couldn't find the way to my own mouth." QUIZZER: "What! When it's just round the corner!"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN GENERAL BOOTH] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: NEW USE FOR A CLOTHES-PEG HOW TO OBTAIN A GOOD FRENCH ACCENT] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: MISTRESS (_to new cook_): "Now are you sure you have had experience?" COOK: "Oh, yes, mum! I've been in 'undreds of places."] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: PICKSOME LITTLE SPRIGGINS: "Yes, we always dine at a private table. You see, my wife is so fond of picking bones." OLD JOKER: "I suppose that's why she picked you."] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN LORD MAYOR SAVORY] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: THE WRONG SHOP (_Carol singing in Hatton Garden_) "Christians Awake!"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: ON THE BRAIN MR. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: BAKERS' STRIKE They've recently discovered that they'll never want a feed As long as they think fit to _loaf_ the less our bread we _knead_.] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: SHE: Oh, John, we're next the engine." HE: "Never mind, we'll get there all the quicker."] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: THE BOY: "Grandpa, is a Jewess a She-brew?"] --------------------------------------- [Illustration: SAVAGE SOUTH AFRICA "A PRIOR ENGAGEMENT."]