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"BARKIS IS WILLIN-K."--There is great and just rejoicing in Liverpool
over a repentant Liberal, by name Councillor WILLINK, who has joined
the Conservative ranks. He would have joined before only "I thought,"
said he, "there was too much connection between the Conservatives and
the drink trade. But now all that has completely changed," and he can,
with an easy conscience, side with the Tory Party, which, he informs
us, "he has been _testing during the last five years"!_ Really, after
so prolonged and severe an ordeal, it is astonishing that there should
be any Conservative Party left for Mr. WILLINK to throw his lot in
with. However, it may with confidence be expected that he will prove
as great a gain to his new cause as, undoubtedly, is the loss which he
has inflicted upon his former partisans.
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[Illustration: SHEER IGNORANCE.
_Benevolent Person._ "COME, MY LITTLE MAN, YOU MUSTN'T CRY LIKE THAT!"
_Boy._ "GARN! 'OW AM I TO CRY THEN?"]
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"THE COMING OF ARTHUR."
["We understand that Mr. HENRY ARTHUR JONES, the dramatist,
intends to drop the surname by which he has hitherto been
known to the public. In future he will accordingly be known as
Mr. HENRY ARTHUR."--_Daily News, October 30._]
An eminent dramatist having abandoned one of his names, it is believed
that the surname ARTHUR, henceforth so illustrious, will become
extremely fashionable, and it is rumoured that the following
gentlemen, amongst others, will re-arrange their names, and will
immediately be elected members of ARTHUR'S Club:--
The Right Hon. JAMES BALFOUR ARTHUR; Mr. Justice CHARLES ARTHUR; Mr.
Justice KEKEWICK ARTHUR; Sir ARNOLD ARTHUR; Sir SULLIVAN ARTHUR; Sir
WILLIAM BLOMFIELD ARTHUR, A.R.A.; Mr. HACKER ARTHUR, A.R.A.; Mr. W.
PINERO ARTHUR; Mr. CECIL ARTHUR; Mr. ROBERT S. ARTHUR.
** Our "ENRY HAUTHOR" is, as far as concerns dramatic
authorship, "The Only JONES." Why descend from this
pinnacle?--ED.
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When is an ice rink not a nice rink? When it has no music and (skate)
dancing license.
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The Woman with a Past generally has many presents.
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