Thus far the Guide had provided us with agreeable reading
and a fascinating field for speculation. It was not until the section on "Imperial and Foreign Parcel Post" was reached that there began to creep over us that sickening feeling of post-dated apprehension, that sense of having unwittingly rubbed shoulders with the unthinkable, which assails the somnambulist who awakens on the edge of a precipice. As we studied the lists of articles which may in no circumstances be sent through the post to foreign parts we realized for the first time how near, on numberless occasions, we had been to trans- gression. We take this opportunity of warning those of our readers whose dear ones, or some of whose dear ones, are far from home that considerable care is needed in the selection of tokens of affection and esteem for transmission to them by parcel post. You must send no handcuffs to Brazil ;
No rags to the Argentine Republic ;
No electric snuff or human hair to Australia; No Christmas crackers to Czechoslovakia ; No knuckle-dusters to the Gold Coast ; No old shoes to Greece ; No police whistles to Guatemala ; No gooseberry bushes to Holland ; No horse-flesh to Italy ; No dummy teats to Mexico ; No Japanese shaving brushes to Tanganyika ; No fresh truffles to Tunis ; And no pictorial representations of prize.flghts to the United States of America.
There are, of course, many more prohibited articles of various kinds. But we have been careful to select those most likely to affect your Christmas shopping policy. If we were you, we should cut this list out and keep it.
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