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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1933,
NATIONAL CABINET
OF HUMOUR
PUNCH CHANGES PILOTS
BUT HOLDS COURSE
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"Irony,
London. English humour," he said. This la significant of the strides which civil aviation is making in "O. S." has retired from the in other words. Innuendo and veiled are related devices, the States. The largest number of editorship of Punch after 26 years' suggestion. private airplanes seen together in service. Editorial changes, of this American humour is quite the oppo- England, apart from ying meet- sort are not always interesting out-site. It is apt to be characterised inge, was at Mr. Norman Holden's side the limited circle of those who by exaggeration, by the suppression country home at Narton Priory in make a Aving by the lint of alof some link in the chain of argu- Sussex. There, one Saturday last typewriter ribbon, but such an event ment or narrative, and by a great summer, one counted eight Puas as a change in the editorship of wealth of simile and metaphor. Moths in the parking field. They Punch-an institution as English as English humour is more restrained. bad brought parties of visitors who The Times or the House of Lords One of our favourite devices is that had turned up casually for tea. is much too important to be of bathos or anti-climax. The Eng- lishman is rarely so far committed America's aerial football specta- regarded as of limited interest.
For twenty-six years "O. S." has to what he reads as to be unpre- tors are a portent of the times. The new stand at Highbury will ruled Punch with great dignity and pared for a reaction; hence he is not be the last word in English (charm, keeping it so English that always ready to find pleasure in the football innovations. Mr. Chap- the child's garden of elves on its shock of an unexpected descent man may yet have to build anfamous cover serves as a kind of from the sublime to the ridiculous. Arsenal aerodrome.
magic carpet to transport English- **Contrast is sometimes an effec. men instantly home from the re-tive device. motest and lonelicat, parts of the world. Truly there is no other There was a time in Punch's office humorous magazine anywhere in the when the careless caprice and the MUCH TOO DULL
world like Punch.
wicked roving eye were enough, Tahiti is a wonderful place for i
And now "O. S." has handed on when it was hardly material whe a-vacation. The weather is always the cap and bells to a new national ther the sugar-conting of wit con. glorious, and the food is simply jester in the person of "Evoe." cealed the pll of wisdom or not. Although Punch makes it a rule to But that was in the bad old days Nothing mention none of its contributors by when Punch was mildly liberal or
Your Daily Smile.
great."
"What a terrible hole! whatever to talk about."
TOO WILLING.
“No, only a $5 bill”
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name, not even its editor, whose even radical. The pranks and horse- position makes him the reigning play of the past are wholly alien to monarch of English humorists, the classical mind of Sir Owen Sea- "I have lost a $10 bill. Has it many Englishmen know that "Evoe" man. He is a neat and logical ai |been brought here?" --
ia, E. V. Knox and every Englishman Lewis Carroll. Under his rule Punch knows that "O. 5." is Sir. Owen has turned comfortably Tory and "Then I will take that on ac- Seaman.
wisdom has regained its lost pre- work on this
and count."
Sir Owen Seaman came to the dominance. other
reveals preparations
For twenty-alx years Sir Owen motley by way of Cambridge, and a
with THE SOLE TROUBLE. the interdependence
the
Seaman has played genially professorship. branches of medicine and of "I don't like these shoes,” said However, having lived to retire, the humours of the English scene, science. The attack on malaria the customer., "The soles are too he now retires to live. A man who lightly pricking all kinds of pre- has served as Punch's editor has tense, oxtravagance and vulgarity, can no longer be made solely by thick." doctors. In that attack admin- "Is that the only objection, mad- no more worlds to conquer.
As a philosophic jester, he has dona Control Of Malaria.
istrators, public health officers, am?" the clerk asked.
A few days ago, just before he his light verse with all possible cora entomologists, and chemists
**Yes."
took off the motley, Sir Owen Sea-that thought and expression should There has lately been formed must in future co-operate. It is "Then, madam, if you take the man paused to sum up his twenty-harmonise.
.But in the background there has at the London School of Hygiene upon the joint action of all these shoes I can assure you that the ob- alx years in a few reflections on the
Jection will gradually wear away." nature and function of humour. jalways been something more seri- . and Tropical Medicine a "Malaria that hope of success depends, .
"The function of humour," helous. There have been occasions Unit"--the object being to ex-
said, "is that of a solvent against when he has risen into the rarer shama and hypocrisies. It is a cor- ether of true poetry, and his knack" rective against vulgarities and ex-of rising to great moments of na- travagances. It clears the air. tional mourning or rejoicing may ** suppose that in a perfect world have given his serious verse a more there would be no place for humour. lasting fame than any of his lighter It is a test which every new'reform work. Certainly, during the dark has to pass. It has, of course, one days of the war, when for a mo- disadvantage, for it is apt to act as ment. It seemed as if there might a constant bar to enthusiasm.
be no place for humour, his patriotic Humour should be genial, and al- (Continued on Page 11.)
Business..
tend knowledge about a disease Modesty As An Aid To which, as a writer in the current} issue of the Lancet declared, still; presents one of the greatest pro-i blems in the world. Malaria, as
The American Association of Pools and Beaches,"meeting in a great convention to think about
is well known, can be controlled pools and beaches, could yet
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HARD ON THE EARS. "Did you hear anything of the money you lent your neighbour?"
"Rather. He bought a radio with the money."
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ONE OR THE OTHER, ・・ WIFE: John, I've just found that the woman next door has a coat
Facts You Did Not Know.
ftself with institutions, with habits,
News In Brief.
to some extent by attacks on the spare a thought for the textile exactly the same as mine. mosquito which carries it; but industry. Pondering the bath- HUBBY: Well, my dear, I suppose Sir Austen Chamberlain's recent ing suit of to-day, the Associa- you'll want me to buy you a new ways impersonal. It should concern
tion has realized how little ma-coat. statement that there is probably terial it uses up, and how the in- WIFE: Yes, it would be cheaper and it is sometimes difficult to kmit no lesa malaria in the world to-creasing demand for sunlight is than moving, wouldn't it? ́
it to such objects. It is not always day than there was before these resulting in a decreasing de
easy to be disrespectful only to im- attacks began would not be easy mand for sunlight is resulting in
personal things like the Equator." Colonel W. J. McElhinny and to disprove. For measures taka decreasing demand for cloth. en against mosquitoes, though The Association has accordingly
This is in the authentic Punch Capt. and Mrs. F, N. Booth and tradition. Its commodity has been infant, left the Colony for London effective in restricted areas, are found much sense in a resolution.
a special blend of social satire and aboard the liner Antenor yester exceedingly difficult and costly, that backless and frontless one-
Steps cut into the bottom of a political caricature which it has day, and cannot in all probability be piece suits must go. This is new high speed boat built in Ger-made peculiarly its own, and ninety applied on the great scale which disinterested from those whose many for gliding over water hold years of this stately and amusing] ·· Capt. and Mra, Henderson and would be necessary if the com-stock-in-trade is the brine of the the craft level at all speeds, permit business is commemorated in the family, were among the passengers ·
Round plete conquest of the disease was ocean, although bathing has been ting it to carry more than the usual famous
Table room
in who sailed for England aboard the to be achieved. In these cir-enjoyed greatly in the past by number of passengers.
Punch's home in Bouveric Street. Blue Funnel liner Antenor which cumstances it is not surprising people very fully clad. But it is
This is the central shrine of the left yesterday. |that interest has become centred almost heroic. from those whose According to a Carnegie Institu-great traditions of English carica-]
on the possibility of controlling beaches are essentially sun-tion scientist the rate at which cer-ture and English humour. It is] Six cases of small-pox. (five malaria by making human be-beaches, and whose stock-in-tain vital energy interchanges go on here that Punch's staff hold their occurring a Hong Kong and one ings proof against it. The or trade is sunlight, because it will in the human body varies with Wednesday luncheons, the editor in Kowloon) and one case of Tanism which is the cause of need advertising of the most ex-different races, causing some to vir- at the head of the table, one of the meningitis were notified to the the disease is carried from mantensive and expensive sort to tually live faster than others.
proprietors at the foot; and around Health Authorities on Tuesday, v. to man by mosquitoes. Clearly, teach the American public to en-
the circumference the twelve" con- them, if the human "soil" were joy bathing, in the sun fully clad. The unusual brilliance of mosaics tributors whom Punch has "called to Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Owen and rendered even partially un- But heroic measures are called covering the dome of a building the table."
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Types of Humgur.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. M. Crothers.
Home, Waterloo Bòrd, according to ; the monthly report of the Hong
In English, as in other humour, Kong Society for the Prevention of "The activities of the Dogs' Home there are no new jokes. Human Cruelty to Animals, which states, nature changes its dress but not (tai substance. Here in the Round Table continue to be maintained." room one might expect to find en
Mr. B. Paul will speak on "The Inexhaustible supply of plumbers, Book of the Dead" at the usual
suitable to those organisms for, if the present trend of fem-erected in Mexico City in 1586 has These twelve are the national were also passengers aboard the the chain of infection inine fashion is not to bring our been attributed by a German scien-cabinet of humour. Week in and liner Antenor, which sailed for would soon be broken. It was civilization down. What is poig-tist to the fact that rubber was week out for more than eighty London, vis Singapore and porte, hoped at one time to effect the nantly said of Ole Man River, used in the colouring matter years they and their lustrious yesterday, purpose of protecting people that he plants neither potatoes, employed.
predecessors have gathered around against malaria.by giving them nor cotton and is indifferent : to
the plain old unpainted deal table During the month of January, 15 small daily doses of quinine, but the fortunes of those who do, is Towed over fields by a tractor or which Trackeray once rhapsodised (dogs-wers admitted to the Dege" this method has not afforded equally true of the woman who automobile, a machine invented by as the "mahogany tree." very good results. A number of first breaks the heart of the A Nebraska man draws gram- new preparations have in conse-farmer by her slight meals and hoppers into s-metal hopper "where quence been tried, and already then the heart of the textile in. they are ground into fragments and some expectation of success has dustry by her light choice in expelled to serve as poultry feed or
fertiliser. been awakened. Thus, according exiguous garments. What in- to the Lancet; the substance dustry calls for loudly is for known as plasmoquine is a true matrons of the old school. The prophylactic of malaria in the diffidence which zuakes women buildings and crowds should not policemen, Aberdonians and Bright respect that it exerts a specific think there can be too much of be difficult to attach to human Young Persons stored away for use weekly public lecture of the Hong lethal action on the forms of the them must be overcome, if the beings, and once immensity has as requisite. These are the stock ng Lodge, the Theosophical So- causative organism which are primary producer is to prosper, been brought into fashion there in trade of English humour, In this city. 17, Queen's Road Central, transmitted from man to man. Cosmetics are an antidote to de-will be plenty of trade for all very room Punch has not only today at 6 p.m. The lecture will be illustrated by paintings copied This substance has afforded pro-[pression, but powder makers will, The citizenesses of the Empire created them, but out of this room tection to uninfected persons in greatly err. if they try to extend and of the United States, can be has exported them, the world over, from the British Museum. malarial districts. But it has the sale of their product as a ma- appealed to, to grow into some-Yet it is not the Aberdonian and become clear that its use on an dicine, the outward sign of in thing worthy of the greatest Em-the Bright Young Person who are extended scale must await fur- ward distress, and still less, pire or the greatest Republic. in found here, but the portraits of the ther and fuller study, for some should they join forces with the the world, and encouraged to great Punch artists who from time [people appear to be over-sensitive drapers and represent powder as inve thade: ames widened as well to time have added the new frills
to its action. Work in now going a kind of veil. Thei
lifted For It is big faces, and Turbelows which have kept the
on to modify and adapt the prsi are sensitive and the paration so as to overcome the intimata. „So dimenities which', have attended best policy would
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WARDER IN ACCIDENT.
Warder Btevens, attached
ad large packets of pow- Aberdonian and the Bright Young Victoris Gaol, has reported to the ala, and Persom always fresh and new," Police that while driving his car in
In auch surroundings, where for Queen's Road West near Water twenty-six years be has occupied Street posterday” he knocked downs The head of the table. Wedges an elderly Chinese male, za
The Infared man, Leung YoK VE,
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