DOI issue:
January 19, 1861
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Januakt 19, 1861.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI,
3,
SAVAGES ON SKATES.
0 cat a figure ou the ice
is frequently the aim of
skaters, but there are some
of them who are not quite
sufficiently regardful what
sort of a figure it is that
they cut. When a man
sprawls on his back while
doing the spread eagle, the
figure that he cuts is much
more ludicrous than grace-
ful; nor does it much im-
prove the elegance of his
position if a lot of flounder-
ing sliders fall between his
legs.
But a far more ugly figure
was cut the other day by
some skaters on the Ser-
pentine and other waters
in our Parks, of whose per-
formances the Times gives
the following account: —
“ A great number of persons,
including several ladies, were
tripped up by the skaters, and
severely injured. * * Many
persons were thrown down and
I very seriously hurt by skaters who were making what is called an ‘ Express train,’
following each other as fast as they could go, and apparently without caring whom
they might upset. * * Two brothers, named Neville, of Knightsbridge Green,
were tripped up by the skaters. One had his thigh broken ; the other was so
seriously cut and otherwise injured that, after having his wounds dressed at the
Receiving House, he became delirious. The other boy was removed to St. George's
Hospital * * * A lad named C. Mabtin, of 6, Park Street, Dorset Square, was
cruelly treated by a fellow, who, while skating, gave him a blow on the mouth and
j knocked several of his teeth out. Search was made for the man who inflicted the
injuries upon the sufferer, but ha could not be found.”
Skating must soon cease to be called a manly sport, if such outrages
as these are to be looked for from its votaries. To knock down little
l boys and ladies is a cruel recreation, and as cowardly as cruel. If such
! injuries were perpetrated elsewhere than on the ice they would be
treated as police cases, and be reported in the newspapers as “ brutal
assaults.” If it become the fashion to cut heads upon the ice instead
i of cutting figures, we think that the police should be empowered to
interfere and to take up the offenders who knock the helpless down.
There is a Cruelty Prevention Society, we know, for protecting our
i dumb animals from savage and inhuman usage ; and a similar Society
must in winter time be officered to protect our wives and children, and
other not dumb creatures, from the savages on skates who take pleasure
in assaulting them.
ENGLISH MURDERED BY THE ERENCH.
The Erench clubs have imported into their festive Cercles our odious
word “ blackball.” They have made, so says the Globe, a verb of it,
“ Blackhallerd We would give something if we could hear a pur sang
! Parisian pronounce it. We are curious to know what broken, and
clipped, and disfigured form it would assume when recoined by his
lips. Should we be able to recognise it as the same word ? Eancy a
thoroughbred dandy leaning over the balcony of the cafe Anglais, and
saying to a Erench copy of an English swell, “ Oui, j’irai au club dans
mon tilbury, et sacre Snob, je le blackballerai—oui, aussi sur que Jack.
Robinson, il sera blackballed We do not think it would have a
pretty effect—would it Mons. Jules Janin, or Mons. Theoehile
Gautier, or any other scholastic Frenchman, who prides himself
upon speaking pure French F—it would not sound very euphoniously,
j we say, to hear one of the young heroes of the Boulevards exclaiming,
“ Non, il est tellement Snob, il faut imperativement que je le black-
ballasse!” What with Erenchified-English and Englishified-Erench,
j the two countries in a short time won’t be able to understand each
other a bit. Why not make an exchange of languages, before they
both become so corrupt that there will be no recognising either the
one or the other F
—
GLADSTONE’S PET.
We do not wish to alarm the ladies, bat we have been told, by one
who has admission into all the secrets of the Cabinet, that it is the
intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, next Session, to
propose a new tax, which is expected to give universal satisfaction—to
the gentlemen, at least. There are, also, great expectations that the
tax in question will be (barring the Income-Tax) one of the most pro-
ductive out of the thousand-and-oue taxes that help to swell the
British Revenue up to its present colossal amount. Calculations have
been made, and the returns, it is said, will be so enormous that hopes
are entertained the Chancellor oe the Exchequer will be able to
dispense not only with the Paper-Duty, but several other duties
besides.
A new tax is always looked upon as a fresh imposition, and yet we
have but little doubt that the present one will be hailed as a great
boon by every one excepting the ladies, though it has been specially
instituted for their physical benefit and personal improvement. Not
to keep our female subscribers any longer in suspense, we may as well
tell them at once that this additional feather on Mr. Bull’s back, or
rather Mrs. Bull’s back (though ladies do not generally carry feathers
on their backs), is to be in the shape of a Crinoline-Tax ! There,
the awful secret is out; and we fancy we see thousands upon thousands
of silk, moire antique, and cotton skirts at the present moment quaking
violently from fear over this announcement. The sum put down (on
paper, we mean) as the probable return of this new contribution to the
Exchequer is not less than £3,000,000. Every lady is to pay a Pound
licence annually for the privilege of wearing Crinoline; and if found
walking in one, without her certificate about her, she will be liable,
to an information precisely the same as a sportsman who cannot
produce his shooting licence.
The penalties are to be very severe. Servants and housemaids are
to be let off for five shillings. Frenchwomen and foreigners are to be
charged double, inasmuch as they are generally greater sinners in this
respect than even English ladies; and, besides, they were the first to
introduce the contagion into this country.
Mr. Gladstone is in high glee over his pet notion, which he is sure
—unless female influence is brought to bear very strongly against it—
of passing through the House without a single dissentient voice. If
passed, it may possibly have the good effect of inducing the ladies to
contract a little their present extravagant habits.
FEVERS UPON WHEELS.
Reader, are you afraid of fever, and do you ride in cabs ?
If you answer both these points in the affirmative, it is as well that
you should know that fever patients have at times been put into these
vehicles, and the chances of infection have thereby been produced. It
is as well that you should know too, not to frighten you too much, that
steps are being taken at several of the hospitals to put a stop to this
alarming and disagreeable practice; and it may greatly tend to lessen
the qualms and apprehensions we may perhaps have raised, if we tell
you that the surgeons to the London Fever Hospital have given their
advice to have a carriage fund got up, by which it will be feasible to
have fevers moved about in specially kept vehicles, instead of being
placed in any cab that comes to hand. Of course this cannot be done
without considerable expense; for with all our social science we have
not yet acquired the art of keeping carriages for nothing. So, reader,
should it ease your mind to learn that fever-carriages are being started
for your safety, in common with that of other healthy members of the
public, we think that the intelligence should ease your pocket too, for
if you share the benefit you ought to share the cost of it. A hint from
Punch of course will be sufficient on this head, and will set the hand
of every apprehensive reader tugging at his purse-strings, every tug
whereat will lessen his chances of infection when lie takes a cab. Give
your orders, gentlemen (Post Office orders we now mean) to the trea-
surer of the Carriage Fund, London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road,
N.; by whom bequests and cheques and any odd sums won at cards,
or any other conscience moneys, will be thankfully received.
Innocence.
:
I
Fast and. Loose.
• _ In spite of President Buchanan’s fast, the State of Carolina per-
; sists in breaking loose, and of severing the tie that binds her to the
I Union. Wili her example be generally followed, do you think F If so,
when we speak of the United States in future, we shall have to change
two letters in the epithet, and use the word “ untied ” instead of the
word “united.”
We copy the following from a recent number of The Grandmother1 s
Gazette. “A pretty little child, being asked by her godpapa where
cotton grew, replied, with the greatest simplicity, in gentlemen’s
ears.”
A TREMENDOUS BURST OE WIT.
A Wretched Plumber, writing to another Plumber, says in a foot-
note, “ Piping times, these ! ”
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI,
3,
SAVAGES ON SKATES.
0 cat a figure ou the ice
is frequently the aim of
skaters, but there are some
of them who are not quite
sufficiently regardful what
sort of a figure it is that
they cut. When a man
sprawls on his back while
doing the spread eagle, the
figure that he cuts is much
more ludicrous than grace-
ful; nor does it much im-
prove the elegance of his
position if a lot of flounder-
ing sliders fall between his
legs.
But a far more ugly figure
was cut the other day by
some skaters on the Ser-
pentine and other waters
in our Parks, of whose per-
formances the Times gives
the following account: —
“ A great number of persons,
including several ladies, were
tripped up by the skaters, and
severely injured. * * Many
persons were thrown down and
I very seriously hurt by skaters who were making what is called an ‘ Express train,’
following each other as fast as they could go, and apparently without caring whom
they might upset. * * Two brothers, named Neville, of Knightsbridge Green,
were tripped up by the skaters. One had his thigh broken ; the other was so
seriously cut and otherwise injured that, after having his wounds dressed at the
Receiving House, he became delirious. The other boy was removed to St. George's
Hospital * * * A lad named C. Mabtin, of 6, Park Street, Dorset Square, was
cruelly treated by a fellow, who, while skating, gave him a blow on the mouth and
j knocked several of his teeth out. Search was made for the man who inflicted the
injuries upon the sufferer, but ha could not be found.”
Skating must soon cease to be called a manly sport, if such outrages
as these are to be looked for from its votaries. To knock down little
l boys and ladies is a cruel recreation, and as cowardly as cruel. If such
! injuries were perpetrated elsewhere than on the ice they would be
treated as police cases, and be reported in the newspapers as “ brutal
assaults.” If it become the fashion to cut heads upon the ice instead
i of cutting figures, we think that the police should be empowered to
interfere and to take up the offenders who knock the helpless down.
There is a Cruelty Prevention Society, we know, for protecting our
i dumb animals from savage and inhuman usage ; and a similar Society
must in winter time be officered to protect our wives and children, and
other not dumb creatures, from the savages on skates who take pleasure
in assaulting them.
ENGLISH MURDERED BY THE ERENCH.
The Erench clubs have imported into their festive Cercles our odious
word “ blackball.” They have made, so says the Globe, a verb of it,
“ Blackhallerd We would give something if we could hear a pur sang
! Parisian pronounce it. We are curious to know what broken, and
clipped, and disfigured form it would assume when recoined by his
lips. Should we be able to recognise it as the same word ? Eancy a
thoroughbred dandy leaning over the balcony of the cafe Anglais, and
saying to a Erench copy of an English swell, “ Oui, j’irai au club dans
mon tilbury, et sacre Snob, je le blackballerai—oui, aussi sur que Jack.
Robinson, il sera blackballed We do not think it would have a
pretty effect—would it Mons. Jules Janin, or Mons. Theoehile
Gautier, or any other scholastic Frenchman, who prides himself
upon speaking pure French F—it would not sound very euphoniously,
j we say, to hear one of the young heroes of the Boulevards exclaiming,
“ Non, il est tellement Snob, il faut imperativement que je le black-
ballasse!” What with Erenchified-English and Englishified-Erench,
j the two countries in a short time won’t be able to understand each
other a bit. Why not make an exchange of languages, before they
both become so corrupt that there will be no recognising either the
one or the other F
—
GLADSTONE’S PET.
We do not wish to alarm the ladies, bat we have been told, by one
who has admission into all the secrets of the Cabinet, that it is the
intention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, next Session, to
propose a new tax, which is expected to give universal satisfaction—to
the gentlemen, at least. There are, also, great expectations that the
tax in question will be (barring the Income-Tax) one of the most pro-
ductive out of the thousand-and-oue taxes that help to swell the
British Revenue up to its present colossal amount. Calculations have
been made, and the returns, it is said, will be so enormous that hopes
are entertained the Chancellor oe the Exchequer will be able to
dispense not only with the Paper-Duty, but several other duties
besides.
A new tax is always looked upon as a fresh imposition, and yet we
have but little doubt that the present one will be hailed as a great
boon by every one excepting the ladies, though it has been specially
instituted for their physical benefit and personal improvement. Not
to keep our female subscribers any longer in suspense, we may as well
tell them at once that this additional feather on Mr. Bull’s back, or
rather Mrs. Bull’s back (though ladies do not generally carry feathers
on their backs), is to be in the shape of a Crinoline-Tax ! There,
the awful secret is out; and we fancy we see thousands upon thousands
of silk, moire antique, and cotton skirts at the present moment quaking
violently from fear over this announcement. The sum put down (on
paper, we mean) as the probable return of this new contribution to the
Exchequer is not less than £3,000,000. Every lady is to pay a Pound
licence annually for the privilege of wearing Crinoline; and if found
walking in one, without her certificate about her, she will be liable,
to an information precisely the same as a sportsman who cannot
produce his shooting licence.
The penalties are to be very severe. Servants and housemaids are
to be let off for five shillings. Frenchwomen and foreigners are to be
charged double, inasmuch as they are generally greater sinners in this
respect than even English ladies; and, besides, they were the first to
introduce the contagion into this country.
Mr. Gladstone is in high glee over his pet notion, which he is sure
—unless female influence is brought to bear very strongly against it—
of passing through the House without a single dissentient voice. If
passed, it may possibly have the good effect of inducing the ladies to
contract a little their present extravagant habits.
FEVERS UPON WHEELS.
Reader, are you afraid of fever, and do you ride in cabs ?
If you answer both these points in the affirmative, it is as well that
you should know that fever patients have at times been put into these
vehicles, and the chances of infection have thereby been produced. It
is as well that you should know too, not to frighten you too much, that
steps are being taken at several of the hospitals to put a stop to this
alarming and disagreeable practice; and it may greatly tend to lessen
the qualms and apprehensions we may perhaps have raised, if we tell
you that the surgeons to the London Fever Hospital have given their
advice to have a carriage fund got up, by which it will be feasible to
have fevers moved about in specially kept vehicles, instead of being
placed in any cab that comes to hand. Of course this cannot be done
without considerable expense; for with all our social science we have
not yet acquired the art of keeping carriages for nothing. So, reader,
should it ease your mind to learn that fever-carriages are being started
for your safety, in common with that of other healthy members of the
public, we think that the intelligence should ease your pocket too, for
if you share the benefit you ought to share the cost of it. A hint from
Punch of course will be sufficient on this head, and will set the hand
of every apprehensive reader tugging at his purse-strings, every tug
whereat will lessen his chances of infection when lie takes a cab. Give
your orders, gentlemen (Post Office orders we now mean) to the trea-
surer of the Carriage Fund, London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road,
N.; by whom bequests and cheques and any odd sums won at cards,
or any other conscience moneys, will be thankfully received.
Innocence.
:
I
Fast and. Loose.
• _ In spite of President Buchanan’s fast, the State of Carolina per-
; sists in breaking loose, and of severing the tie that binds her to the
I Union. Wili her example be generally followed, do you think F If so,
when we speak of the United States in future, we shall have to change
two letters in the epithet, and use the word “ untied ” instead of the
word “united.”
We copy the following from a recent number of The Grandmother1 s
Gazette. “A pretty little child, being asked by her godpapa where
cotton grew, replied, with the greatest simplicity, in gentlemen’s
ears.”
A TREMENDOUS BURST OE WIT.
A Wretched Plumber, writing to another Plumber, says in a foot-
note, “ Piping times, these ! ”