Punch: Punch (11.1846)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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THE TEA MOVEMENT.

There is at length a stir in Tea, which is not confined to the millions of spoons
connected with the British Breakfast Tables. There is a determination to emanci-
pate the Greens, as well as the Blacks, the Souchongs, as well as the Hysons.
At public dinners Untaxed Tea is now drunk with all the honours, so that Tea and
Toast have become identical.

The cry of the patriot in favour f** -'—— ■ ■»

of " our hearths " is not com-
plete without the addition of
"and our tea-kettles." The
fine rough-flavoured old Pekoe
has languished too long in fis-
cal fetters, and there is a de-
mand that it shall be released
from the bonds that used to
bind it. If the ministers will
not give freedom to our teas, _
they are to be regularly teased
out of it. The question is one -cr—
that comes home to the bosoms ~"(^
and businesses of our wives
and our washerwomen. It is \W

and other amiable approaches to reconciliation, which
could not be so well conveyed by word of mouth as by
the mute eloquence of the wire. The annexed sketch
furnishes some idea of how the plan could be made to
operate, and by which the difficulty of saying " the first
woid" towards reconciliation may be remedied.

& Song to fic sung at all agricultural
associations.

Stock-breeders, stock-feeders,
Subsoil-drainers, patent weeders,
All lights of Agricultural Societies,
Who plough by means untold of,
Use manures that land makes gold of,
And upset ancient farming proprieties ;
Who the future think and see big,
In the light of Dr. Liebig,
At dinners monthly, quarterly, and annual ;
Who from ancient rule of thumb,
To Boessingault have come,

an alarming fact, that every "JVX__P V ftlEg^. TMwmN-^^itj , - And have at fingers'end the Ifwefc Jifa?iwa/!;

spoonful we put into the pot IA\ "^5 |j^Qfli R; Sf.:A) $ \ Who with wurzel, beans, and Unseed,

has been laid under contribu- W>. \_ £ jb'Mk0$Mm4m^j\% 9' I Make obese what once was thin seed,

tion by the tax-collector, and y/xh V^l 8 ^S^^SS|i§i^i i% Sn Till our sirloins are so fat that we cant cat 'em ;

our second cups are weakened jj£ \M\ v>$Jl 1' Jhm^^^BkI < I Who feed pigs to a condition

to pay a duty which has only ^ Air.-. [fHal^i^PI 11 sfoy> Which leaves spare-rib a tradition ;

to be removed to enable us to / -( TriAEEE?1 Hi Slat _ Ict a11 sucn hear Punch a moment, we entreat 'em.

afford to make " the last cup L ^» /r§S ^'J?*Vr^= "^^^^m^iP ^ ~= Besides your fattening cattle,

as welcome as the first." /Wpfs Ir^TJVM'^-'^v-iSVrTV'' nviwTr^cff^ '> You've of late begun to battle

When the second, third, and / \>J NV In a way of your own, for the peasant ;

fourth waters are added, in nn '4 ' _ ' -rr ^ ' And from oxen, pigs, and muttons,

the vain hope that our refresh- O\L fi§| F^EE AXl€4vUTC5 To give medals> coats> and buttons

ing beverage may be renewed, hfc/',= p4 , ^ Unto Virtue, waiting meekly for the present,

and that the thrilling ecstasy in <f - tWf Y^jLt .jfililife^ 1^ He who's best borne half-starvation,

of the first cup may live again h=f M/n u Tf> i ^sWg^jgjl^ 'f^^lS \-= • Longest held worst situation.

in the second, how terrible is —!'f^^ TvT^T ^S^^^Sr^Cjl ^ (Like "the world, your system best approves the
the reflection that the impov- IU\|i flfJH i&lS iXl ]| jj ■HSyPNiSr .A hardy uns);
erished liquid is rendered poor Vjj If — ' xfH^EiflSP^ ^ Who's fought out his life of labour
by the excessive price put upon JWi i ; 1 Wfc^J ^H^pg||gj§& .§p Without sinking Hke his neighbour,
the herb in consequence of the ~-j| J%maslsi^= I SI ! Or holding out his hand to Board of Guardians :
claims of the^ Custom-house ! j g| He that thus with fierce endeavour-
free as the air we breathe, ^^^Si^^^tk^wj^ll^^^^^^^P^'■ §31 Has won Ids bread, or struggled on without it,
the cabbage leaf we smoke, *^''WSi3r»^^ -^^^^^=^^^^^^^5^ Shall find the gentry willing—
and the chalk we imbibe in $«W^Cfw K -^=S^^~^ ZBaBirljgv As far as twenty shilling—

our milk—at breakfast. Why ^mtB^Th.|£/ W, i n' " _^-=A===^l "T^V To square scores with him, and say no more about it,

should tea be liable to a tax ? -~_ ^r^^^S^:' ■ - - And then, in all the beauty

We pause for a reply—which - — Of after-dinner duty,

we request may be sent, post Good digestion fanning conscience while she doses,

paid, to our office. ANTI ^ office. you thank yom. gtars that throw you

_ High to help poor souls below you,

And each one each one else's health proposes.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS FOR FAMILIES. ^it^o^^Tt

With a fling at the Press, by which you're nettled,
You call the bill and pay,
Nor imagine that the day
Has brought with it a debt which you've not settled.
Oh ! bethink you, honest gentry,
Of a style of double-entry,
We are all of us rather inclined to :
Set down twice our own payments,
And half the dues of claimants ;
And the tottle of the whole who can be blind to ?

■A. Fine Tone of Indignation.

T , , , , ,, , . , , . The Old Masters are so hurt and cut up in consequence

It has been suggested that the Electric Telegraph is too good a thing to be confined 0f the severe towelling they have received at the hands
to public use, and that it may be introduced with considerable effect into the j 0f the cleaners, that a great number of them intend
domestic circle. It sometimes happens that a husband and wife are, for a time, not never to show their faces in the National Gallery again,
upon • speaking terms, though communication between them may be requisite- j

This desirable result might be easily accomplished by means of the Electric-----

Telegraph, which should be fitted up in the apartments of every married ladv or

gentleman.' In fact reconciliations would often be much more easily effected by the a delici0us non-seqtjitur.

plan we propose, for there is often something exceedingly provoking in the tone of a The Duke of Richmond, at the Smithfield Cattle-Club
voice, while in the sound of the Electric Telegraph there is nothing whatever to Dinner, gave " The Butchers of the Metropolis," which
irritate. There should be a station opposite the usual seats of the master and '] toast he followed up with the appropriate sentiment of
mistress of the house, and short signs could be used, expressive of " When do you ! "Live and let live." In which case, we ask the Duke, what
mean to ge-t out of your ill-humour ? " "I'm ready to make it up, if you are," ! is to become of the Butchers ?