Even in England this spectacle is still the object of remark.

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"We really feel inclined to parody Kipling and say--

'One hand stuck in your dress shirt from to show heart is cline,
The other held behind your back, to signal, tax again.'"

_Singapore Free Press._

We can only hope our esteemed contemporary will not feel this way again.

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[Illustration: THE ROAD TO RUIN.

LABOUR. "WHAT'S YOUR GAME?"

MR. SMILLIE. "I'M OUT FOR NATIONALISATION."

LABOUR. "AH! AND YOU'RE GOING TO BEGIN BY NATIONALISING STARVATION?"]

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[Illustration: _Mrs. Smithson-Jones_ (_to her husband, who WILL garden in
his pyjamas before breakfast_). "_DO_ COME IN, ADOLPHUS; YOU'RE DELAYING
THE HARVEST."]

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