DOI issue:
February 18, 1865
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16875#0074
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[February 18, 1865.
FRIGHTFUL CONSEQUENCE OF THE FROST.
Julia. “The Water was all frozen in our Jugs last night.’’
Mamma. “ And so it was in mine, Dear. Was it in yours, Cecil F ”
Cecil. “I don’t know/!"
DRESSMAKING MADE EASY.
Ladies, give your orders to the London Dressmaking Company
(Limited), shortly about to commence business at 18, Clifford Street,
Bond Street. Give your orders in time, Ladies, in order to enable this
humane Society to carry out its benevolent intentions. The benevolent
intentions contemplated by this Association are the production of the
prettiest of all possible dresses, and the preservation of the health, and
the sufficient remuneration of the dressmakers who construct them.
A moderate fixed maximum of profit on capital invested, say eight per
cent., all gains above that amount to go to the good of the workwomen ;
hours of work from eight to eight, two hours out of those twelve to be
allowed for meals, making the work-hours ten, whether in or out of the
Season: these are the principal points which the London Dressmaking
Company (Limited) proposes to go upon.
Consider, Ladies, with what unalloyed pleasure you will contemplate
your clothes in the mirror, knowing that they have been made with
no ruinous expense of vital energy on the part of their makers, who, to
make them, will not have been obliged to sit up all night in close
rooms, breathing carbonic acid. For well ventilated work-rooms con-
stitute part of the scheme of the London Dressmaking Company
(Limited). Fancy with what unmitigated ecstasy you will dance in
ball-dresses made under wholesome conditions. Think of the perfect
self-complacency and satisfaction with which you will appear in Church
on Sundays, attired in the height of fashion.
The London Dressmaking Company, Ladies, is patronised by the
Lord Bishop op London and the Lord Bishop of Oxford, and also
by the Right Reverend the Earl op Shaptesbury. It has engaged
hands that will get you up anything as sweet as was ever confectionne
by a Parisian modiste.
. So, give your orders, Ladies, to the London Dressmaking Company;
in time, Ladies : time is the one thing needful to enable it to accom-
plish its purpose, which is to provide you with dresses that shall cost
you a reasonable price, and not cost the young women who make them
consumption and typhus. In the accomplishment of that purpose,
may the London Dressmaking Company (Limited) obtain unlimited
success.
THE GREAT UNPAID FOR EVER!
Considerable excitement has been caused at Leeds by a sentence
of one month’s imprisonment lately pronounced upon Eliza Strafford,
a respectable woman, aged 55, servant of H. Chorley, Esq., J. P., for
stealing a pound of dripping which she had given away under the im-
pression that it was her lawful perquisite.
The Leeds Justices, the other day, also distinguished themselves by
the administration of justice thus recorded;—
“ Martha Drury, a middle-aged woman, appeared in answer to a summons
charging her with using abusive language to Matilda Davidson, a neighbour. She
was also charged with having assaulted her. The ease having been proved, the
defendant was fined 20s. and costs, with the alternative of serving 14 days in prison.
The defendant expressed her willingness to serve the time stated, and as she was
leaving the dock, she turned to the complainant, and making use of threatening
language, said, ‘ I ’ll give it thee, lass, when I come out.’ The Bench, hearing the
threat, immediately called her back, and told the woman that she was guilty of
contempt of court, and that her sentence would be altered to two months’ imprisonment
without the option of a fine.”
They do not manage these things better in Russia or in Turkey, or
in a British school governed by a clergyman. The laughter occasioned
by a Bench of Country Magistrates enabling a sham detective to
plunder young Mr. Ashworth, has hardly yet subsided. Under these
circumstances the nation may be congratulated on the omission, from
the Queen’s Speech, of the following paragraph, which might have
been expected to appear in it:—
“ Your attention will be directed to the consideration of a measure,
substituting for unpaid Justices of the Peace, ignorant of law, and. sense-
less of justice, Stipendiary Magistrates who understand their business.
This innovation, which would only have the effect of protecting
individuals, at some expense to the public, is for the present postponed.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[February 18, 1865.
FRIGHTFUL CONSEQUENCE OF THE FROST.
Julia. “The Water was all frozen in our Jugs last night.’’
Mamma. “ And so it was in mine, Dear. Was it in yours, Cecil F ”
Cecil. “I don’t know/!"
DRESSMAKING MADE EASY.
Ladies, give your orders to the London Dressmaking Company
(Limited), shortly about to commence business at 18, Clifford Street,
Bond Street. Give your orders in time, Ladies, in order to enable this
humane Society to carry out its benevolent intentions. The benevolent
intentions contemplated by this Association are the production of the
prettiest of all possible dresses, and the preservation of the health, and
the sufficient remuneration of the dressmakers who construct them.
A moderate fixed maximum of profit on capital invested, say eight per
cent., all gains above that amount to go to the good of the workwomen ;
hours of work from eight to eight, two hours out of those twelve to be
allowed for meals, making the work-hours ten, whether in or out of the
Season: these are the principal points which the London Dressmaking
Company (Limited) proposes to go upon.
Consider, Ladies, with what unalloyed pleasure you will contemplate
your clothes in the mirror, knowing that they have been made with
no ruinous expense of vital energy on the part of their makers, who, to
make them, will not have been obliged to sit up all night in close
rooms, breathing carbonic acid. For well ventilated work-rooms con-
stitute part of the scheme of the London Dressmaking Company
(Limited). Fancy with what unmitigated ecstasy you will dance in
ball-dresses made under wholesome conditions. Think of the perfect
self-complacency and satisfaction with which you will appear in Church
on Sundays, attired in the height of fashion.
The London Dressmaking Company, Ladies, is patronised by the
Lord Bishop op London and the Lord Bishop of Oxford, and also
by the Right Reverend the Earl op Shaptesbury. It has engaged
hands that will get you up anything as sweet as was ever confectionne
by a Parisian modiste.
. So, give your orders, Ladies, to the London Dressmaking Company;
in time, Ladies : time is the one thing needful to enable it to accom-
plish its purpose, which is to provide you with dresses that shall cost
you a reasonable price, and not cost the young women who make them
consumption and typhus. In the accomplishment of that purpose,
may the London Dressmaking Company (Limited) obtain unlimited
success.
THE GREAT UNPAID FOR EVER!
Considerable excitement has been caused at Leeds by a sentence
of one month’s imprisonment lately pronounced upon Eliza Strafford,
a respectable woman, aged 55, servant of H. Chorley, Esq., J. P., for
stealing a pound of dripping which she had given away under the im-
pression that it was her lawful perquisite.
The Leeds Justices, the other day, also distinguished themselves by
the administration of justice thus recorded;—
“ Martha Drury, a middle-aged woman, appeared in answer to a summons
charging her with using abusive language to Matilda Davidson, a neighbour. She
was also charged with having assaulted her. The ease having been proved, the
defendant was fined 20s. and costs, with the alternative of serving 14 days in prison.
The defendant expressed her willingness to serve the time stated, and as she was
leaving the dock, she turned to the complainant, and making use of threatening
language, said, ‘ I ’ll give it thee, lass, when I come out.’ The Bench, hearing the
threat, immediately called her back, and told the woman that she was guilty of
contempt of court, and that her sentence would be altered to two months’ imprisonment
without the option of a fine.”
They do not manage these things better in Russia or in Turkey, or
in a British school governed by a clergyman. The laughter occasioned
by a Bench of Country Magistrates enabling a sham detective to
plunder young Mr. Ashworth, has hardly yet subsided. Under these
circumstances the nation may be congratulated on the omission, from
the Queen’s Speech, of the following paragraph, which might have
been expected to appear in it:—
“ Your attention will be directed to the consideration of a measure,
substituting for unpaid Justices of the Peace, ignorant of law, and. sense-
less of justice, Stipendiary Magistrates who understand their business.
This innovation, which would only have the effect of protecting
individuals, at some expense to the public, is for the present postponed.