DOI Heft:
March 12, 1864
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16873#0119
March 12, 1864.]
Ill
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Volunteer Captain. “ My Lord, allow me; let me introduce to you No. 450,
2nd Battalion, Lord Kilkovey, Lord Kilkovey, No. 450, 2nd Battalion.”
[And little Private Tufton, who hacl been everlastingly boring his Captain to intro-
duce him to his Colonel, LordIv., was intensely affronted and left the service.
IDLE HANDS.
The Poet who was not for an age, but as yon are aware
for all time, it is needless to say that I allude to Dr.
Watts, has well said, that a certain person, who shall be
described as Blank,
“ Finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.”
Often has it been my duty to inculcate this upon my
listless twins, Harry and Tommy, who pass then- days in
assisting one another to do nothing. They number nine
years between them. They are too youim to be sent to
school, and too precocious to remain any longer at home.
In casting about for some method of disposing of these
two little men, short of dealing with them after the manner
of the cruel uncle with the Babes in the Wood, my eye fell
upon the following advertisement:—
WANTED, a YOUTH used to CUTTING UP Note
and Letter Fapers. Apply, &c.
Now this sort of employment would exactly suit these
children; yes, as the Ethiopian melodists have sung :—
“ It ’zaclcly suits dis Child ! ”
They’re always getting into my Study and playing
Young Harry and Tommy with any of my most important
papers that may happen to come within their reach.
If the Advertiser would only adopt as a heading
‘ YYanted a few Mischievous Boys,’ he would soon be fitted
with such a supply of the article as would not leave a single
sheet of note or letter-paper whole upon his table.
News from Brazil.
By the latest Brazil and River Plate Mails (March 5),
we have received the following melancholy Musical
Intelligence:—
“ Common Bones Dull.”
YVe should like to know how the Tambourine is ? and
will our interested readers unite hi kind inquiries after the
general efficiency of the Banjo and Accordion. Why does
not the Uncommon Bones from the genuine Christy’s
Minstrels emigrate, and enliven the Brazilians. If the
‘ Common Bones’ is dull, he’d better leave, as he won’t
have much chance of making a Lively-hood.
|
SHUTTING UP OUR SUNDAYS.
Among the score or so of deputations that daily pester poor Lord
Palmerston, there was one the other day composed of carpenters and
painters, and people of that sort, who have to get then living by their
skill hi handicraft, and who requested that his Lordship would kindly
stand their friend in the matter of promoting healthy Sunday recreation.
It appears some pious persons are doing all they can to make people
hate Sunday, by keeping them within doors, or else forcing them to
church. The deputation represented that Sunday was the only day on
which a great part of the N ation could go and see the pictures which
happen to belong to it; and they thought if British workmen were
allowed on Sunday afternoons to see the paintings in Trafalgar Square
and the statues in Great Russell Street, their minds would not be
harmed thereby but sensibly improved, and they would be the better
able to compete with foreign workmen in the matter of skilled taste.
Lord Palmerston, replying with less truthfulness than tact, declared
that British works were not inferior to foreign in design or manufacture,
and with regard to throwing open the Museum and the Gallery:—
“ With respect to the objectof the deputation, hebelieved his opinions were pretty
well known—(hear, hear)—but he must remind them that there was a very strong
feeling the other way. He thought the most prudent course to pursue at present
was to remain passive until public opinion was brought round to the object in view,
and in the meantime he advised them to inculcate their opinions, and thus hasten
on the accomplishment of their desire.”
Yery good. Lord Palmerston. Then the way to get what is
wanted is to get the matter talked about, and the way to get things
talked about is to mention them in Punch. If your Lordship’s opinions
about Sunday are “well known,” so too are iRr. Punch's, which happen
to agree with them. Mr. Punch, however, cannot “remain passive,”
as you tell the working men to do, and see them robbed of Sunday by
the Sabbatarian fanatics, without feeling his fingers itch to take his cudgel
up and lay about him lustily. The fanatics once tried to rob the poor
man ot his Sunday beer, but Mr. Punch stepped up in time to stop
then-brutal act. No doubt the fanatics would like to rob the poor man
altogether of his liberty on Sunday, but Mr. Punch will not keep
passive, while they attempt to do so. If the fanatics had their own way,
nobody would be allowed to leave his house on Sunday except to go
to church, and his regular attendance. there they would compel by the
Police. Pious people, who are rich of course, can stay at home and see
then- pictures on a Sunday: but to throw open a gallery lor the pleasure
of poor people, would be such desecration of the Sabbath as all proper
minds must shrink from and indignantly condemn.
If it be found sinful to improve one’s mind on Sunday, by all means
let Museums and such places remain closed. . But till the sinfulness is
shown him, Mr. Punch will not believe in it: nor will he “remain
passive ” while the sinfulness, as he thinks, is wickedly assumed. A
man who works hard for six days at a monotonous employment needs
in some way recreation as well as rest upon the seventh, and looking
at good pictures is as innocent a pleasure as well can he devised tor
him. By a reductio ad absurdum the truth is often to be reached. If it
be wrong to see such things as Turner’s landscapes on a Sunday, it
may fairly be contended that it must be likewise wrong to see the
fields and trees and sunshine which Turner loved to paint. Eor the
mere sake of consistency, the people who keep shut our picture
galleries on Sunday should endeavour to do something towards keeping
Nature’s pictures also from the public sight. The Universal Nature
Sunday Closing Movement would find doubtless many lanatics quite
ready to support it; and if it be found difficult to prevent the flowers
from blooming and the sun from shining on the first, day of the week,
at least a trial might be made, by multiplying the police, to keep people
hi their houses except during church-time, and to make them all
walk blindfold when they went to church.
To Agriculturists.—In consequence.of 4864 being Leap year, we
may be sure it will go off with a good Spring.
Motto for the Economically-minded Members of Opposition.
—C’esl le Premier Pam qui coiite.
Ill
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
Volunteer Captain. “ My Lord, allow me; let me introduce to you No. 450,
2nd Battalion, Lord Kilkovey, Lord Kilkovey, No. 450, 2nd Battalion.”
[And little Private Tufton, who hacl been everlastingly boring his Captain to intro-
duce him to his Colonel, LordIv., was intensely affronted and left the service.
IDLE HANDS.
The Poet who was not for an age, but as yon are aware
for all time, it is needless to say that I allude to Dr.
Watts, has well said, that a certain person, who shall be
described as Blank,
“ Finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.”
Often has it been my duty to inculcate this upon my
listless twins, Harry and Tommy, who pass then- days in
assisting one another to do nothing. They number nine
years between them. They are too youim to be sent to
school, and too precocious to remain any longer at home.
In casting about for some method of disposing of these
two little men, short of dealing with them after the manner
of the cruel uncle with the Babes in the Wood, my eye fell
upon the following advertisement:—
WANTED, a YOUTH used to CUTTING UP Note
and Letter Fapers. Apply, &c.
Now this sort of employment would exactly suit these
children; yes, as the Ethiopian melodists have sung :—
“ It ’zaclcly suits dis Child ! ”
They’re always getting into my Study and playing
Young Harry and Tommy with any of my most important
papers that may happen to come within their reach.
If the Advertiser would only adopt as a heading
‘ YYanted a few Mischievous Boys,’ he would soon be fitted
with such a supply of the article as would not leave a single
sheet of note or letter-paper whole upon his table.
News from Brazil.
By the latest Brazil and River Plate Mails (March 5),
we have received the following melancholy Musical
Intelligence:—
“ Common Bones Dull.”
YVe should like to know how the Tambourine is ? and
will our interested readers unite hi kind inquiries after the
general efficiency of the Banjo and Accordion. Why does
not the Uncommon Bones from the genuine Christy’s
Minstrels emigrate, and enliven the Brazilians. If the
‘ Common Bones’ is dull, he’d better leave, as he won’t
have much chance of making a Lively-hood.
|
SHUTTING UP OUR SUNDAYS.
Among the score or so of deputations that daily pester poor Lord
Palmerston, there was one the other day composed of carpenters and
painters, and people of that sort, who have to get then living by their
skill hi handicraft, and who requested that his Lordship would kindly
stand their friend in the matter of promoting healthy Sunday recreation.
It appears some pious persons are doing all they can to make people
hate Sunday, by keeping them within doors, or else forcing them to
church. The deputation represented that Sunday was the only day on
which a great part of the N ation could go and see the pictures which
happen to belong to it; and they thought if British workmen were
allowed on Sunday afternoons to see the paintings in Trafalgar Square
and the statues in Great Russell Street, their minds would not be
harmed thereby but sensibly improved, and they would be the better
able to compete with foreign workmen in the matter of skilled taste.
Lord Palmerston, replying with less truthfulness than tact, declared
that British works were not inferior to foreign in design or manufacture,
and with regard to throwing open the Museum and the Gallery:—
“ With respect to the objectof the deputation, hebelieved his opinions were pretty
well known—(hear, hear)—but he must remind them that there was a very strong
feeling the other way. He thought the most prudent course to pursue at present
was to remain passive until public opinion was brought round to the object in view,
and in the meantime he advised them to inculcate their opinions, and thus hasten
on the accomplishment of their desire.”
Yery good. Lord Palmerston. Then the way to get what is
wanted is to get the matter talked about, and the way to get things
talked about is to mention them in Punch. If your Lordship’s opinions
about Sunday are “well known,” so too are iRr. Punch's, which happen
to agree with them. Mr. Punch, however, cannot “remain passive,”
as you tell the working men to do, and see them robbed of Sunday by
the Sabbatarian fanatics, without feeling his fingers itch to take his cudgel
up and lay about him lustily. The fanatics once tried to rob the poor
man ot his Sunday beer, but Mr. Punch stepped up in time to stop
then-brutal act. No doubt the fanatics would like to rob the poor man
altogether of his liberty on Sunday, but Mr. Punch will not keep
passive, while they attempt to do so. If the fanatics had their own way,
nobody would be allowed to leave his house on Sunday except to go
to church, and his regular attendance. there they would compel by the
Police. Pious people, who are rich of course, can stay at home and see
then- pictures on a Sunday: but to throw open a gallery lor the pleasure
of poor people, would be such desecration of the Sabbath as all proper
minds must shrink from and indignantly condemn.
If it be found sinful to improve one’s mind on Sunday, by all means
let Museums and such places remain closed. . But till the sinfulness is
shown him, Mr. Punch will not believe in it: nor will he “remain
passive ” while the sinfulness, as he thinks, is wickedly assumed. A
man who works hard for six days at a monotonous employment needs
in some way recreation as well as rest upon the seventh, and looking
at good pictures is as innocent a pleasure as well can he devised tor
him. By a reductio ad absurdum the truth is often to be reached. If it
be wrong to see such things as Turner’s landscapes on a Sunday, it
may fairly be contended that it must be likewise wrong to see the
fields and trees and sunshine which Turner loved to paint. Eor the
mere sake of consistency, the people who keep shut our picture
galleries on Sunday should endeavour to do something towards keeping
Nature’s pictures also from the public sight. The Universal Nature
Sunday Closing Movement would find doubtless many lanatics quite
ready to support it; and if it be found difficult to prevent the flowers
from blooming and the sun from shining on the first, day of the week,
at least a trial might be made, by multiplying the police, to keep people
hi their houses except during church-time, and to make them all
walk blindfold when they went to church.
To Agriculturists.—In consequence.of 4864 being Leap year, we
may be sure it will go off with a good Spring.
Motto for the Economically-minded Members of Opposition.
—C’esl le Premier Pam qui coiite.