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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917 by Various
page 45 of 57 (78%)
Welcome, margarine, nutritious
Palatable lubricant!

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"The undersigned, who has just returned from the Front, begs to
inform the Public that he has opened a Barber's Shop on the
ground floor of Miss ----'s house in Great George Street, where
he is prepared to give CUTS in any style required."--_Dominion
Chronicle_.

Well, his customers can't complain that they weren't warned.

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TO HELP OUR OTHER ARMY.

With all eyes so focussed on the great deeds of our men in France, in
Palestine and on the sea, there is a possibility of losing sight now
and then of the constant and devoted efforts of the women and girls
at home, without whose co-operation the War could not be successfully
waged at all. We are the debtors not only of the munition workers who,
in their hundreds of thousands, are toiling for victory, but of women
and girls in myriad other employments, which they have cheerfully
attacked and mastered; and any little thing that we can do for them
should, Mr. Punch holds, be done. A practical and very simple way
of adding to their happiness and well-being is to contribute a mite
to the funds of the Girls' Friendly Society, an organisation with
the finest traditions, which is doing its best to build rest and
recreation huts all over England, for the purpose of conserving the
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