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PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 156.
June 11, 1919.
CHARIVARIA.
"Every British working man has as much right as any Member of Parliament
to be paid L400 a year," states a well-known Labour paper. We have never
questioned this for a moment.
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"Women," says a technical journal, "are a source of grave danger to
motorists in crowded city streets." It is feared in some quarters that
they will have to be abolished.
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"Are you getting stout?" asks a Sunday contemporary. Only very
occasionally, we regret to say.
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The heat was so oppressive in London the other day that a taxi-driver at
Euston Station was seen to go up to a pedestrian and ask him if he could
do with a ride. He was eventually pinned down by some colleagues and
handed over to the care of his relatives.
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"I do not care a straw about Turkey," writes Mr. LOVAT Fraser in _The
Daily Mail_. It is this dare-devil spirit which has made us the nation
we are.
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Superstition in regard to marriage is dying out, says a West End
registrar. Nevertheless the superstition that a man who gets married
between January 1st and December 31st is asking for trouble is still
widely held.
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