Punch (24.1853)

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SERVANTGALISM :

OR, WHAT 'S TO BECOME OF THE MISSUSES ?—No. 8.

' Ousmaid (from Town). " Is Hann Jenkins at Home 1"
Suburban Cook. "No; she has just gone to her Milliner's."

'Ousmaid. "Then give her my Card, please, and say, I ope she got home safely
from the Ball."

YOUTHFUL SPORT IN THE STREET.

Sing a song of mischief,

Policeman standing by •,
Idle boys play " tip-cat:"

Let's have a shy.
When the cat is started,

Yon don't know where 'twill spring;
And if it breaks a window-pane,

Oh, what a jolly thing '

As I was in my connting-honse

A counting out my money,
I saw a game that ended

In something very funny.
Old gentleman was passing,

When "cat" was struck awry;
Whack! came the knob of wood,

And knocked out his eye!

A Duke in Partibus.

That Government was quite right in
strengthening our national defences will be
almost admitted even by the Quakers them-
selves, now that the news has arrived from
Italy that the Pope has actually offered to
General Oudinot the title of the Duke of
St. Pancras, which the General has declined.
That was wise of the General. For a foreign
power to create a Frenchman a British duke it
is easy enough; not quite so easy for the duke
so created to come over and take his dukedom.
But see how spiritual aggression leads to tem-

Eoral. From an Archbishop of Westminster
ow easy is the transition to a Duke of St.
Pancras ! His Holiness Pio Nono, perhaps,
will next oblige us with an Earl of St.
Martin's-in-the-Fields, and a Marquis of
Marylebone.

A Lazy Frame of Mind.—When you look
out of window.

THE CROWN AND THE BROAD-BRIM IN BAVARIA.

The following paragraph, though a genuine extract from the foreign
Correspondence of a London daily paper, reads more like a bit of
burlesoue from some mock account of some imaginary revolution.

" bavaria.

" Munich, April 5.—The police have been instructed to arrest all persons who
are found with Calabrian broad-brimmed hats. These instructions have been carried
out. Large numbers of young men have been arrested and taken to the stations.
They were subsequently liberated, but the police retained their hats. Complete igno-
rance prevails as to the motives of this measure, but it is thought that the authorities
have acted in consequence of advices which have reached them from abroad."

Surely the first of April, and not the fifth, should have been the date
of this news—we cannot dignify anything so absurd with the title of
" intelligence." We hope that none of our friends, the Quakers, will
find themselves arrested on account of their broad-brims, under the
shade of which treason is supposed to lurk; though, by the way, dissa-
tisfaction with the Bavarian Government is far more likely to be met
with in a Wide-awake. It is really lamentable to think of the inanity
that must possess what ought to be the mind of that ruler who can
have resorted to such a piece of imbecile tyranny as the arrest of every-
body with a hat of a particular fashion. Imagine our own Government,
in the days of Chartist tom-foolery, having ordered the arrest of every-
body wearing point lace, or of every one pointing with his hand on the
ground, under the apprehension that the point—particularly in the case
of the hand with its four fingers and thumb—must indicate some sym-
pathy with the five points of the Charter. Mental imbecility such as
this must disqualify those who are afflicted with it for the duties of
government. How any nation can be ruled over for a day by persons
displaying such a puerile notion of the means and appliances of power, is
a miracle only to be accounted for by the supposition that the mass of
the people are still lower in the intellectual scale than their governors.

To complete the idiotic colouring of this picture, we are told that the
persons arrested were liberated, " but the police retained their hats."
The danger to the Government is thus imputed to the hats themselves,
and not to the heads they covered. We shall not be surprised to hear
that the hats have been all tried—on—by court-martial and shot, for it
is quite impossible to suggest any bounds to the idiotic proceedings of
a Government that has taken a lot of old hats into custody on a charge

of high treason. Of course every person who has been deprived of his
hat by the executive will be known to have had relations with a
revolutionary broad-brim, and the fact of his going about bare-headed
will render him liable to arrest on bare suspicion. We have not heard
the measurenent of brim which constitutes the offensive width, but we
believe the Bavarian Government allows very little margin. If this is
not filling up the cup of oppression to the very brim, we know not
what will constitute the full measure of tyranny.

"Come Back!"

There is a new steamer called the Boomerang Propeller. A Boome-
rang, if we understand right, is an Indian instrument which returns to
the place from which it was flung. We can hardly imagine this to be
the case with this new steamer, but we should say that The Boomerang
would be a capital name for the Australian Mad Steamers and many of
our Government steam frigates, for such is their attachment to the
spot they have left that they are sure, after a few turns and useless
gyrations, to come back as quick as they can to the places they have
started from.

a question for the chancellor of the exchequer.

What is that Fund which is always buoyant, in which there is never
any flatness, and the interest of which can never be diminished ?
Why, Punch's inexhaustible fund of humour, to be sure!

farriery at the diggings.

A good opening presents itself in Australia for working Goldsmiths,
who are wanted there to shoe horses.

Three Things a Woman cannot do.—To pass a bonnet-shop
without stopping—to see a baby without kissing it—and to admire a
piece of lace without inquiring "how much it was per yard ? "

Spirit-Rapping.—Gents knocking at the different doors as they go
home late at night.