PERHAPS you read about the fish-monger, called Victor, who hit a policeman twice during the blackout saying, "It's old Vic, you silly old beggar."
And perhaps you can imagine the policeman replying "Why, of course! Something about you struck me at once."
Let us treasure such reminders of a pre-war world which now seems so far away.
Showman in the "Daily Herald."
How to Deal with Profiteers Nor to be behind in helpful advice in wartime, I offer a suggestion for the treatment of Profiteers, says Showman in the "Daily Her-
The profiteer should be either tripped up or struck humanely to the ground with a loaded sausage (see "How to Load a Sausage," Ministry of Information pamphlet 3105 A/Saus, L. XM. 5). He should then be bound—get a friend to place a foot on his repulsive neck while you do this—and left in a prone position, face downwards.
There may be pathetic protests from the profiteer's wife and children at first. But you need only point out to them that two profiteers, laid end to end, serve the purpose of eight sandbags (and thus effect a national economy) for their protests to turn into enthusiastic cheers, They will be proud to think that daddy is doing his bit, having already done the public.
Popular Fallacies Tuar the bindings of books are destroyed when they are held in perspiring hands, (Sweat preserves the bindings. Perspiration is a natural preservative), That bleached blonde hair was introduced by Hollywood's glamour girls. (The men of ancient Greece bleached their hair to acquire golden tresses), That only men join the Army. (There is a Ladies' Cavalry unit of 200 expert horsewoman in Montclair, N. J).
That the streamlined train is a recent invention. (A patent on a streamlined train was given to S. R. Calthorp, of Springfield, Mass immediately after the Civil War.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.