Another Secret Session
Pat (examining fare): "May the divil destroy the Germans!"
Sub: "Well, they don't do you much harm, anyway. You don't get near enough to 'em."
Pat: "Do they not, thin? Have they not kilt all the half-crown officers and left nothing but the shillin' ones?"
Guy Fawkes Day has come and gone without fireworks, pursuant to the Defence of the Realm Act. Even Parliament omitted to sit. Apropos of Secret Sessions, Lord Northcliffe has been accused of having had one all to himself and some five hundred other gentlemen at a club luncheon. The Daily Mail describes the debate on the subject as a "gross waste of time," which seems to come perilously near lèse-majesté! But then, as a writer in the Evening News—another Northcliffe paper—safely observes, "It is the failing of many people to say what they think without thinking."
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