Show A DETERIORATING UNIVERSE Its It's a rotten world Its It's a deca deca- decadent decadent dent perIod Things are not as they used to be AU All the good old cue cus toms are falling Into disuse All the good old privileges are beIng lost Men have havo no more rights at except all to pay the bills This woman business has killed every every- thing I Time was when the husky able able- bodied Englishman had a perfect right to beat up his own wife when he felt like it There was no dan dan- daner danger ger er from the police or the courts court But those halcyon halcon days das are over OHr A London porter the other eveS eve I ning thought to Indulge In the old old- I fashIoned pastime The police rude rude- rudely rudely I ly arrested him Did the court scold the police and dismiss the de de- Instanter It dId not In In- Instead I stead I Dont think because you rou have married a woman you are entitled to knock her about Fifteen dollar dollan fine of 28 days dara in the clink We despair for England Her Herd d days s 's are numbered She Is totter log Ing forward to petticoat rule In Instead stead of the lion and the unicorn on her escutcheon she will soon have emblazoned on a background of the gold lipstick and the powder purr puff |