Punch: Punch (76.1879)

222 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [May 17, 1879.

THANKS WHERE THANKS ARE DUE.

{Mrs. Ponsonby Tomkyns at Home.)

Mr. Ponsonhy Tomkyns. "How kind of Mademoiselle Serrurier to come to us, my Love, and Sing to us in this friendly

way, without being paid for it, I mean ! I 'll go and thank her."

Mrs. Ponsonby Tomkyns. "Good Heavens, you Goose, don't thane her! Tell her she has made a Good Impression, and

that we hope to have her again soon--Ah, your grace, going away already ? "

The Duchess. "Yes. Thank you very much for a pleasant Afternoon !"

Mrs. Ponsonby Tomkyns. " Thank you, Duchess ! How kind of your Grace to come to us ! ! Mademoiselle has a nige
voice, has she not ?"

The Duchess. "Charming! I only wish I could afford to engage her for Tuesday! I've only got Amateurs, you
know. By the bye, I shall be happy to send you a Card, if you care to come."

Mrs. Ponsonby Tomkyns. "Oh, thank you, Duchess ! "We shall only be too delighted, &c, &c, &c."
Mademoiselle Serrurier and her Mother, who think Mrs. Ponsonby Tomkyns a tremendous Swell, are waiting for Jier Grace's departure to say,

" Nous vous remercions infiniment, Madame de Tomkyns, de votre si aimable et sympathique Accueil ! "
To tuhich Mrs. Ponsonby Tomkyns will reply, "Oh—er—ne le .mxationnez pas. Je suis si charmes, de vous etre utile, vous

savvy ! Er—Bong joor ! " {Clever Mrs. P. T. 11I) _

PRINCIPLES AND PREPOSITIONS.

" The dreariest duty of Humanity " is, according to—

The Earl of Beaconsfield {when called upon to do so)—To ex-plain.
Mr. Gladstone {when there's a chance of getting in a tcord)—To
re-frain.

The Czar {with the Holy Empire on his shoulders)—To sus-tain.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson {in front of a glass of water)—To ab-stain.
The Khedive {offered accommodation at seventy-five per cent.)—
To dis-dain.

Sir Garnet Wolsey {after six months in Cyprus)—To re-main.

The Chairman of Committees {after the Lords have once ques-
tioned his authority)—To re-gain.

Sir Robert Peel {when he has lost his temper and has to Jceep his
dignity)—-To main-tain.

And Tier Majesty's Ministers {losing their grip on Office before
approaching Dissolution)—-To re-tain.

the same thing.

" The Treaty of Berlin not being executed ? Fiddlesticks! Don't
we see it ' bung up' in aU directions ? "

More Light I

{To the Metropolitan District Boards.)

2 propos of tbe exhibition of tbe Electric Ligbt at tbe Albert
Hall—how about tbe painting up of tbe names of London streets on
London street-lamps Y Must we wait for an electric shock to set that
great small improvement going ?

As an inducement, Punch hereby promises to associate with the
improvement tbe name of the District Board that inaugurates it, as
the names of the inventors of electric lighting apparatus—Jab-
lochkoff, and Rapieff, and Loutin, and Wilde, and Siemens, and
Werdermann—have been coupled with their luciferous inventions.

The Other Way of Looking at It.

Paterfamilias {log.).—We've been passing through a period of
depression. Bread has been cheap; coals comparatively cheap;
most necessaries of life, except meat, and even most luxuries, cheap.
In the meanwhile we've passed through a period of depression.
Now, they say, there seems to be a ;turn of tbe tide, business
reviving, and some signs of a beginning of better times. Una.
I suppose that will mean a plaguy rise in the price of everything !