Volume 147 — THE OPPORTUNISTS.
Reading edition
'Tis a strange portent of the war That every advertiser Desires to be indebted for His income to the Kaiser; At all events He's got the goods for military gents.
"Pypp's Playing-cards," we learn, "dispel The longest siege's tedium." "Tin of Tobacco turns a shell— Great feat by Mascot (medium)." "No ally feels Hungry or tired who carries Ponk's Pastilles."
"The nicest present you can get To soothe the soldier's nerve is Our Black Maria cigarette— The best for active service!" "All haversacks Should carry lumps of Entente sealing-wax."
"Ask for our French equivalent Of British Oaths. The French is More chic. A pretty compliment To Piou-Piou in the trenches! A boon untold To Indian colonels suffering from the cold!"
"Both persons have been taken prisoners and sent to Medan, where they will be fried for having broken Holland's neutrality."
Provinciale Groninger Courant.
A severe, but perhaps necessary, lesson.