PUNCH (to the Comber-out): "More power to your elbow, sir. But when are
you going to fill up that silly gap?"
SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES: "Hush! Hush! We're waiting for the Millennium."]
[Illustration:
THE NEW LANGUAGE
TOMMY (to inquisitive French children): "Nah, then, alley toot sweet, an
the tooter the sweeter!"]
Lord Rhondda, who listened from the Peers' gallery to the recent debate in
the Commons on Food Control, has received a quantity of advice intended to
help him in minding his p's and q's, particularly the latter. In China, we
read in the _Daily Express_, a chicken can still be purchased for
sixpence; intending purchasers should note, however, that at present the
return fare to Shanghai brings the total cost to a figure a trifle in
excess of the present London prices. More bread is being eaten than ever,
according to the Food Controller: but it appears that the stuff is now
eaten by itself instead of being spread thinly on butter, as in pre-war
days. Bloaters have reached the unprecedented price of sixpence each. This
is no more, as we have seen, than a chicken fetches in China, but it is
enough to dispel the hope that bloaters, at any rate over the Christmas
season, would remain within the reach of the upper classes. At a Guildford
charity _fete_ the winner of a hurdle race has been awarded a new-laid
egg.
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