Punch (88.1885)

January 10, 1885.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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SNUBBED! OR, NO ONE WILL

DANCE WITH HIM!

They say that “ silence means consent,
Alas! the adage-mongers fib.

My bland proposals I present,

With sinuous spine, with pliant rib ;
In vain I plead, in vain I prance.
They will not dance!

Silence ? By Memnon, they ’re as mute
As Tara’s harp, as Sphinxes, fish,

Cavalier Seal, sings :—

Or Orpheus with a shattered lute.

They do, they must know what I wish,
Yet freeze me with Medusa glance.
They will not dance!

Germania gives a seornful_ sniff,

And Austria pouts an Austrian lip,
Whilst Russia looks incarnate tiff.

I in the waltz can deftly trip,

Yet even saltatory France
Declines to dance!

True, little Italy,—methinks—

Would gladly take my arm and try ;
But stops in awe, poor timid minx,

Of stern Germania’s glassy eye.

Cold, all alike, to my advance,
They will not dance !

’TIS COURTESY MAKES THE MAYOR TO GO.

A remarkable example of courtesy is reported from Liver-
fi?01, ., 6 Liverpool Daily Post, which is properly enthusiastic on
tne matter, says: —

?Ue ^e man7 instances of the Mayor’s (Mr. David Radcliffs’s)
urtesy was shown to the Deputation from the General and Sub-post Offices,
each uPon him at the Town Hall on Monday. The Mayor presented

less t P_ePntation with a Cabinet Photograph of himself; and it is need-
u Q.Say s’Snal kindness has been greatly esteemed.”

to thi gn^- kindness ” is rather a poor and inadequate way of alluding
We t a? •on ?n the part of the Mayor of Liverpool. It is prodigious,
hims If A will prove that Mr. Radclifee has not only done good
^aJ; ’ hut has been the cause of others doing good. We can
the re ^ ?°thing more pleasing, or indeed more elevating, than to be
Notts ^>len*' °* a Mayor’s Photograph, cabinet size. Lord Mayor
from delicacy of feeling that will be understood and
eiated, hesitate to follow the example. But to Mayors in other
towns we commend it.

WAS IT VERY COLD ?

The day after Mr. Gladstone’s seventy-fifth birthday—there is
no other date known in a liberal computation of time,—The
Standard had this paragraph—

“ Mr. Gladstone seemed as fresh and as hale as he has done at any period
during the last four years, and faced the biting easterly wind at eight o’clock
in the morning with no other protection than that afforded by a shawl loosely
thrown over his shoulders.”

Nothing but a shawl loosely thrown oyer his shoulders! Good
gracious! The Premier was very nearly affording a representation
of the First Gentleman in the World as he appeared on quitting Eden.
And Police surveillance has been entirely withdrawn, or partially
modified! Odd!

The Real Original Corsican Brothers.—Louis, Joseph, and
Napoleon Buonaparte.