Volume 150 — THE BEST AIR "MINISTER."
Reading edition
Who shall be Lord of the Air, Now N. has seen fit to declare, To his followers' deep despair, That he can't conscientiously sit In a Cabinet void of grit? For Churchill is tied to the Front, And Markham is out of the hunt, And eloquent Bernard Vaughan From his pulpit can't be withdrawn. Who shall be Lord of the Air And take us all under his care? Why, Robertson Nicoll, of course— A man of colossal force, With a perfectly splendid gift For soaring and moral uplift. For, though nobody so uniquely Can hearten The British Weekly, His readers will cheerfully spare Him to go and remain in the air, Careering along the inane In a Nicoll-plated plane With, to lend him additional fervour, Mr. G*rv*n as his "Observer."
The Mule's Parentage.
The Best Thing Yet Said of the 22.
Mr. Gibson Bowles, at the City blockade meeting, on the Coalition: "The Government did not swop horses. They made an alliance with another animal; and the result is a mule without pride of ancestry or hope of posterity."—Evening News.
Incidentally the unkindest thing that has yet been said of the Unionists who joined the late Ministry.
"There were further indications at the meeting of the Salop County Council on Saturday of the Council's desire to economise where possible. Dr. McCarthy drew attention to figures given in the report of the County Medical Officer of Health showing a diminution in the birth-rate of the county for the quarter to the extent of 14 per cent."
Wellington Journal.
Economy of any kind is praiseworthy, but we think they might have begun with one of the other rates.
"The domestic income of a more or less typical three-roomed cottage near the docks is at present £17 per week. Among the recent purchases of the family, a pianoforte, costing £50, may be enumerated, although no one in the house can play a note. This looks more wasteful than the common outlay on gramophones, which at least give pleasure. The idea of sound investment is slow in penetration among the suddenly affluent in wages."
Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury.
We dislike carping, but surely a piano is always a sound investment.