  Eve, being of opinion that the interning question is not carried nearly far enough, decides to complete the operation by removing a lot of people who are better away. Here we have her robed and ready to hold her court of inquiry Uncle Fred is the first victim. He has been insufferable since he fell down the cellar steps avoiding the Zeppelins, and made his bandaged and unjustifiably heroic reappearance since the accident Next to be sent into an unhonoured obscurity are, reading from left to right—(1) The lady who advocates the equality of the sexes, with a suppressed predisposition towards emotional freedom; (2) The curate who has heard an early cuckoo and looses the news on a receptive press; (3) The lady with an insatiable desire to communicate with a “lonely soldier”; (4) The little boy who will recite; (5) The poetess whose spring ebullitions fill the corners of the papers; (6) The little girl scout who desires to blend patriotism with publicity—on her knitting activities Next come, or rather go, those senile saunterers or withered nuts who turn round for a leering examination of the little Eves who pass them on their doddering promenades The young man who has Cook-toured the Dardanelles in the past, and who on the strength of it insists on explaining at great length the operations there, is sentenced to be sent back at once, to be used as a sand bag or a buzzer And last but not least, the gentlemen who invented the wide skirt are sentenced to be smothered in their own creations. We regret that Eve’s feelings should, after administering justice, have induced her to administer a most unjudicial poke with her parasol in the rear flank of the destroyer of her peace. Tou-Tou is also seen advancing to the attack |
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