PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 156.



May 7, 1919.





CHARIVARIA.

No enthusiasm attended the recent revival of the curious May Day
custom of dancing round the snow man.

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Since the Muzzling Order, says a weekly paper, fewer postmen in the
West End have been bitten by dogs. We are asked by the Dogs' Trade
Union to point out that this is not due to the Muzzling Order, but
to the fact that just at present there is a fine supply of dairy-fed
milkmen in that district.

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A negress has just died in South America, aged 136. It is supposed
that the exodus of so many of her descendants to London on account
of the great demand for Jazz-band players was largely responsible for