DOI issue:
August 20, 1864
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16874#0082
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PUNCH OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[August 20, 1864.
RETURN FROM THE RACES-BOIS DE BOULOGNE.
English Stable-boy (to Ms Pal). “I sat, Jones, isn’t it a Pit? Mounseer has not got another Hand for the Whip?”
a tree, and are ornamented with acorns in white silk or any bright colour. The
head of the cane is engraved with the initials or crest, and often encrusted with
turquoise or garnets.”
PADDY BEFORE RICHMOND.
The Irish boy to the war is gone,
In the ranks of Grant you ’ll find him.
By Yankee bayonets goaded on,
With a frequent prod behind him.
“ Land of Crimps ! ” said the youth ill-starred,
“ Let Bright and Cobden praise thee,
And ivery fool their words regard ;
Och botheration saze thee! ”
Poor Paddy fell on the Southern plain,
Ere he fire had well got under;
When he found himself on his legs again,
“ I’m kilt,” he cried, “ by thunder! ”
And said, “ Ye dirty blackguards, ye
Base sons of bogus knavery.
It’s fightin’ you are that Trade mayn’t be free,
And not to abolish Slavery ! ”
WOMEN AND WALKING-STICKS.
The statement that Eve once presented Adam with a little Cain,
may perhaps, by a bad punster be considered a good answer when one
is asked if walking-sticks may be esteemed to be of ancient date. But
whether their antiquity be provable or no, it seems that Canes are more
and more now coming into modern use: for the Empress of the
Erench, has taken them in hand, and as Empress of the Eashions her
influence is all-potent to make popular her taste. Eor the instruction
of our lady readers, we copy what was lately said on this important
point in a contemporary print:—
“ As the little cane has been seen in the hand of the Sovereign, all other young
women have adopted it. This cane is now made equal in value to a jewel, and is
generally white—in pearl, ivory, or rhinoceros ivory, or in white wood, japanned
and varnished, and all the art possessed by workers in ivory is lavished on this little
object. The Chinese ivory cane is carved all over with pagodas, side by side with
the inhabitants of Pekin ; whilst those from Dieppe represent the knotted bark of
Some ladies stick at nothing in making themselves fashionable, so we
can hardly be surprised to find them take to wearing sticks. Never-
theless, a description of these ladies’ canes, we think, is not superfluous,
or cynics when they hear of a woman with a walking-stick, might
imagine her resembiing an old fairy in a pantomime, supported by a
crutch. Now, if toe were a young lady (ana our figure is so slim and
elegant that it were no great stretch of fancy to imagine that we were
one), we should not like to be belikened to the Mothers Bunch and
Goose, or to poor old Goody Two Shoes, and people of that sort. But a
cane such as is above described, we should be sure that no old person
would ever dream of carrying, excepting they were in a stage of second
childhood, and could not take a walk without some plaything in then-
hand. A walking-stick of ivory “carved all over with pagodas and
inhabitants of Pekin,” is a sort of thing that nobody would carry for
convenience, and its only point of usefulness would be that it might
help the fortunes of the glove-makers, for with a very little handling, it
certainly would play sad havoc with one’s gloves. On this ground, we
assuredly as father of a family, shall forbid our girls from following this
fashion of the Empress, however great a tyrant they may think us for
so doing. But all Papas have not then daughters under such control
as we have, and in some cases perhaps, a compromise may be found
needful, to prevent a flat refusal to obey Papa’s behest. Here we would
advise him, if he can, to make the bargain that if Julia and Emily will
persist in carrying canes, they will both abstain while doing so from
buying parasols. More than half the ladies who carry parasols, do so
when the sun has not the least idea of shining, and when therefore those
articles are not of the least use to them. On such occasions, walking-
canes would serve them just as well, and be cheaper in their wear and
tear perhaps than parasols. An economic girl might, with a little
ingenuity, convert her last year’s parasol stick into a new walking one,
and so save Papa the cost of the ivory pagodas to which allusion has
been made. But we fear it is not fashionable to be economic, and a
young lady who would condescend to manufacture her own walking-
stick, would probably have sense enough to walk without a stick at all.
PUNCH OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[August 20, 1864.
RETURN FROM THE RACES-BOIS DE BOULOGNE.
English Stable-boy (to Ms Pal). “I sat, Jones, isn’t it a Pit? Mounseer has not got another Hand for the Whip?”
a tree, and are ornamented with acorns in white silk or any bright colour. The
head of the cane is engraved with the initials or crest, and often encrusted with
turquoise or garnets.”
PADDY BEFORE RICHMOND.
The Irish boy to the war is gone,
In the ranks of Grant you ’ll find him.
By Yankee bayonets goaded on,
With a frequent prod behind him.
“ Land of Crimps ! ” said the youth ill-starred,
“ Let Bright and Cobden praise thee,
And ivery fool their words regard ;
Och botheration saze thee! ”
Poor Paddy fell on the Southern plain,
Ere he fire had well got under;
When he found himself on his legs again,
“ I’m kilt,” he cried, “ by thunder! ”
And said, “ Ye dirty blackguards, ye
Base sons of bogus knavery.
It’s fightin’ you are that Trade mayn’t be free,
And not to abolish Slavery ! ”
WOMEN AND WALKING-STICKS.
The statement that Eve once presented Adam with a little Cain,
may perhaps, by a bad punster be considered a good answer when one
is asked if walking-sticks may be esteemed to be of ancient date. But
whether their antiquity be provable or no, it seems that Canes are more
and more now coming into modern use: for the Empress of the
Erench, has taken them in hand, and as Empress of the Eashions her
influence is all-potent to make popular her taste. Eor the instruction
of our lady readers, we copy what was lately said on this important
point in a contemporary print:—
“ As the little cane has been seen in the hand of the Sovereign, all other young
women have adopted it. This cane is now made equal in value to a jewel, and is
generally white—in pearl, ivory, or rhinoceros ivory, or in white wood, japanned
and varnished, and all the art possessed by workers in ivory is lavished on this little
object. The Chinese ivory cane is carved all over with pagodas, side by side with
the inhabitants of Pekin ; whilst those from Dieppe represent the knotted bark of
Some ladies stick at nothing in making themselves fashionable, so we
can hardly be surprised to find them take to wearing sticks. Never-
theless, a description of these ladies’ canes, we think, is not superfluous,
or cynics when they hear of a woman with a walking-stick, might
imagine her resembiing an old fairy in a pantomime, supported by a
crutch. Now, if toe were a young lady (ana our figure is so slim and
elegant that it were no great stretch of fancy to imagine that we were
one), we should not like to be belikened to the Mothers Bunch and
Goose, or to poor old Goody Two Shoes, and people of that sort. But a
cane such as is above described, we should be sure that no old person
would ever dream of carrying, excepting they were in a stage of second
childhood, and could not take a walk without some plaything in then-
hand. A walking-stick of ivory “carved all over with pagodas and
inhabitants of Pekin,” is a sort of thing that nobody would carry for
convenience, and its only point of usefulness would be that it might
help the fortunes of the glove-makers, for with a very little handling, it
certainly would play sad havoc with one’s gloves. On this ground, we
assuredly as father of a family, shall forbid our girls from following this
fashion of the Empress, however great a tyrant they may think us for
so doing. But all Papas have not then daughters under such control
as we have, and in some cases perhaps, a compromise may be found
needful, to prevent a flat refusal to obey Papa’s behest. Here we would
advise him, if he can, to make the bargain that if Julia and Emily will
persist in carrying canes, they will both abstain while doing so from
buying parasols. More than half the ladies who carry parasols, do so
when the sun has not the least idea of shining, and when therefore those
articles are not of the least use to them. On such occasions, walking-
canes would serve them just as well, and be cheaper in their wear and
tear perhaps than parasols. An economic girl might, with a little
ingenuity, convert her last year’s parasol stick into a new walking one,
and so save Papa the cost of the ivory pagodas to which allusion has
been made. But we fear it is not fashionable to be economic, and a
young lady who would condescend to manufacture her own walking-
stick, would probably have sense enough to walk without a stick at all.