Punch (12.1847)

104 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

TEE RISING GENERATION.

Juvenile. "Aw, Hairdresser, when you've finished my hair, just take off my ceard, will you .

A SUGGESTION TO M. SOYER

OR, THE TICKET FOR SOUP.

M. Soyee deserves to be called the Gastro-
nomic Regenerator of Ireland. His receipt for
cheap soup is the best practical suggestion
which has been yet made tor the relief of that
unlucky island. It has, however, been objected
against M. Soyer's soup, that it contains an
insufficient quantity of meat. We have a plan
to propose, by which this defect may be remedied.
Nay, we will show how animal matter may be
plentifully introduced into the soup with positive
gain instead of expense to the country. Let
game be applied to this purpose. We shall ~b2
told that it will require all the game in the
kingdom. Exactly so. Two great savings will
thus be effected ; one in crops to the agricultu-
rist, the other in prosecutions and prison-expen-
ses to counties. For if the Irish eat up the-
game, the game 'will not eat up the farmer ;
poaching will be impossible, and the Game LawTs
become a dead letter. We therefore, for once,,
recommend a series of battues for the benefit ot
| the starving Irish. Let us not be told that
j this is an unseasonable proposal. Tarnishing
' people can eat stranger food than game out of
j season. March hare will make very sensible
! soup. Our scheme we know will spoil sport ;
but it is rather better to sacrifice that than
human life. Instead, therefore, of making game-
of Soter's soup, we say, let Soyer's soup be
made of game. And the extirpation of game
by the instrumentality of Soyer will add
appropriate lustre to a name associated with
Reform.

SPANISH MARRIAGES—SPANISH BLOOD.

Marriage would, at times, seem to be like the scarlet fever ; let it
only attack one, and it straight runs through a family. The Queen of
Spain is the first victim ; and then immediately afterwards (not at the
same time, M. Guizot) her little sister. Well, their affections being
placed, or said to be placed, upon respectable husbands—that is,
gentlemen with royal blood in their veins (the very best and brightest
scarlet dye)—there is but little difficulty in the matter, and all such
let or hindrance Bresson, the great wedding-ring minister, speedily

determined upon marriage; and, says L'Union Monarchique, has fixed
his eye upon our little Princess Mary, daughter of the Duke or
Cambridge. And then, coolly adds L'Union, " the only obstacle is the
difference of creeds : but it is said that this will be removed by the
Princess becoming a Catholic! " Rather too great a sacrifice thi?, to
demand of the young lady ; we think that L Union might have
suggested that each party should make one step towards mutual
accommodation.

Thus, instead of the Princess becoming wholly a Catholic, both her-
self and the Count should turn Puseyites. The Princess would only

nullifies. The girls are married, and there is an end. Well, poor Don j liave to ta^e a step in advance, and the Prince one step back, and
Henry, finding himself attacked by the hymeneal fever, is desirous of , tllig wouia bring both on the same line,
obtaining a remedy. Whereupon he is about to marry the young
Countess de Castellan, when his cousin, the matronly Isabella—
now some three or four months a wife, with perhaps a new sympathy
for the young man on his impending misfortune—forbids the banns,

orders the prince to be popped into a post-chaise, and to travel to .< ^HE LEAST SAID, THE SOONEST MENDED.'"'

" finish his naval education." The young Countess is packed to a

convent, ultimately, it is not improbable, to take the veil instead of a ! him , ,in ur friend the Due de Nemours has been

husband. But there are great state reasons for this apparent tyranny, ; \\\\ givirjg a fancy ball, at which everybody

had to appear as a pierrot. Jellies
generally puts at 'the end of his mas-
querade bills, " No clowns admitted ;"
but at the bottom of the Duke's invita-
tions the order was "None but pierro's-
admitted." The great fun of this cha-
racter consists in not speaking a word

This breaking of young hearts is only necessary for the better
cementing the Spanish Constitution. For it is not permitted to royal
blood t<f wed with the sangre azul, the blue blood of even the grandees
and best nobility.

There is much noise about blood in Spain. According to Mr. Foed.
the blue blood animates the true nobility ; the real fluid, the poor

gentleman and younger brothers. " Those Peninsular ladies/; says ffi » IX/th^Sd Pierrot TsT nrute^

Mr. Pord, "who are blues, by blood, not socks, are equally fastidious,
in the serious matter of its admixture even by Hymen ; one of them,
it is said, having chanced in a moment of weakness to mingle her

" ic join. n,nmg Liianeea in a moment 01 weakness lo iinngie uci >■ rasbfes- w! /riiWWWh, „ ti^„*;»0 -n-v,^ „(t0nrinri 'H-

azure with something brownish, alleged in excuse, that she had done HUM? W/M | k, ^fTb^TS cJarac?er ?n whkh

so for her character's sake. ' What nonsense !' was the reply. ' Why ! HBB|£AY/MfM^Mz ?*TtJ> LSZSfhT^t^tJ^Afvam

ten living mishaps would have less discoloured vour blood, than one WTT th,67 I°S™t LinTaflowed t^srSk

legitimate babv born nf «,<*. * ™;aaii;™™ e » Snain h*™* ' H§&£^iP^£%2 i' i ridicule by not being allowed to speak.

legitimate baby born of such a misalliance !' " Hence, Spain being Ig&Mgg^P^1 ;l / 711 Z n * th at AT on sietjr
very precise in the article of blood-though, bv the way she is apt to SSM^F^- C '' — ? I I,t / it friend las neve?
be more than sufficiently liberal of it^will insist upon keeping the ^^^i^ ^ ^^S^ ™ ™£

royal fluid particularly pure. This is a pity ; for, considering what
poor wishy-washy stuff it has become, very certain we are, that there
is much blood in Spain that would very well bear the recommendation
set forth at our own juniper palaces, and be " remarkably good for
mixing."

The Conde de Montemolin—(King of Spain, according to the
Grace of the Morning Post)—is, like the rest of the royal family.

probably, the Due de Nemours selected
the costume out of compliment to the

so eloquent before, and that Monsieur
Guizot, as he never spoke the whole evening, was listened to for once,
with the greatest veneration, without any one doubtiDg his word.

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