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"Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917"


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"The system of women and girls acting as field labourers, ploughing and
shepherding, etc., in itself produces a rough state of
society."--_Country Life._
However this roughness is to be corrected, as we see by the following:--
"ARRANGEMENTS FOR TO-DAY.
"Class in Elementary Polish begins, King's College, 6."--_The Times._
Splendid! These colleges think of everything.
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OUR CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE.
So much good has notoriously been done during the great conflict by letters
to the Press that Mr. Punch, recognising the importance of having this
branch of War-work taught to the young, has engaged a gentleman of ample
leisure and few responsibilities, who hides behind the _nom de guerre_
"Paterfamilias," to deliver a series of instructive lectures on the
subject. By the time the student has absorbed a complete course he will he
qualified to write to the papers on any topic, and, to adopt every tone
from the pleading and querulous to the indignant and hectoring.


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