DOI issue:
October 11, 1873
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.16937#0160
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [October 11, 1873.
POACHING MADE EASY.
Sportsman. “Well, Jim, I hope you have not been in Trouble for Poaching this Season?”
Jim. “ Not I, Sir. The Birds is brought up so Tame for you Gents now, that there beant no Trouble, and precious
little Sport, in looking after them ! ”
Addison, or Goldsmith, or Coleridge, or Charles Lamb, or Leigh
Hunt, or Wordsworth ?
Are sanitary considerations sufficiently regarded by Ladies in the
dress they adopt for evening entertainments ?
If a man has an income of £500 per annum, and a family of three
sons and three daughters, with what yearly allowance for their dress
and private personal expenses should the young Ladies be content ?
Do yon approve of stuccoed houses, sham pilasters, precocious
children, drawing-room tables with rosewood legs and deal slabs,
black satin skirts with alpaca tops, cheap wines with fine names,
false masses of hair, complexions artificially manipulated, menda-
cious advertisements, dishonest characters with servants, adulterated
provisions, cheap finery, fast novels, morning drams, and decol-
/eiee-ism ?
_ Would it not be desirable to elect a Lady President of the Asso-
ciation every other year ? A limit might be assigned to the length
of her opening Address.
Was it not a pretty compliment on the part of the gentlemen
attending the Congress, presenting every lady member either with a
dress or shawl of Norwich manufacture ?
The Good Time Come.
Ladles, do not despair. You will in due time accomplish all you
desire. Only have a little patience, and you will reach the highest
ranks in the learned professions, be the wisest of Senators, the
gravest of Privy Councillors, the most brilliant and bewitching
Cabinet Ministers, the most attentive and enduring Jurywomen. A
beginning has been made. The path to fame and distinction, so
long monopolised by grasping and incapable man, is at last open to
you. One of your ilown-trodden sex has been chosen to fill the post
of “ Grand Worthy Councillor” amongst the Good Templars.
Sporting Definition.—A Grecian Nose—The Straight Tip.
LEVITY IN LE FOLLET.
There is no subject which the most thoughtful of mankind can
discuss more seriously than women are accustomed to talk and write
about dress. Their conversation, relative to that important parti-
cular is more simply grave than any that men ever hold touching
money matters ana business. Any jocular observation which may
in the course of it be ventured upon by a masculine interlocutor is
resented by a blank look and a pause of silence. It is received as a
pun is when made by a buffoon interrupting a Professor’s argument
on theology. The commencement of “Fashions for October,” in
Le Follet, with a joke, is a novelty strange indeed; and therefore
as a stranger give it welcome. Listen :—
“ Our September days this year have, many of them, brought the coming
winter so vividly before us, that the use of wanner and richer materials is
now de rigueur.”
Ha, ha! “ De rigueur ” indispensable—with a view to the
rigour of the approaching winter. Of course. Bravo, Le Follet !
Capital, as your French say, first-rate, brilliant, splendid, excellen t,
pretty well! _
Hackneyed “ Horrors.”
Whilst I am reading my newspaper at breakfast, my servant,
who also reads hers, often interrupts me by asking me a question
about some particular in connection with “that murder.” What
murder ? I always skip murders. There is such a sameness about
them all, and there are so many of them !
One of the People.
A MISNOMER.
Advices from the Gold Coast report that King Coffee does not
exactly answer to his name. He is anything but “ berry ” brown—
in fact, he is “berry” black.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [October 11, 1873.
POACHING MADE EASY.
Sportsman. “Well, Jim, I hope you have not been in Trouble for Poaching this Season?”
Jim. “ Not I, Sir. The Birds is brought up so Tame for you Gents now, that there beant no Trouble, and precious
little Sport, in looking after them ! ”
Addison, or Goldsmith, or Coleridge, or Charles Lamb, or Leigh
Hunt, or Wordsworth ?
Are sanitary considerations sufficiently regarded by Ladies in the
dress they adopt for evening entertainments ?
If a man has an income of £500 per annum, and a family of three
sons and three daughters, with what yearly allowance for their dress
and private personal expenses should the young Ladies be content ?
Do yon approve of stuccoed houses, sham pilasters, precocious
children, drawing-room tables with rosewood legs and deal slabs,
black satin skirts with alpaca tops, cheap wines with fine names,
false masses of hair, complexions artificially manipulated, menda-
cious advertisements, dishonest characters with servants, adulterated
provisions, cheap finery, fast novels, morning drams, and decol-
/eiee-ism ?
_ Would it not be desirable to elect a Lady President of the Asso-
ciation every other year ? A limit might be assigned to the length
of her opening Address.
Was it not a pretty compliment on the part of the gentlemen
attending the Congress, presenting every lady member either with a
dress or shawl of Norwich manufacture ?
The Good Time Come.
Ladles, do not despair. You will in due time accomplish all you
desire. Only have a little patience, and you will reach the highest
ranks in the learned professions, be the wisest of Senators, the
gravest of Privy Councillors, the most brilliant and bewitching
Cabinet Ministers, the most attentive and enduring Jurywomen. A
beginning has been made. The path to fame and distinction, so
long monopolised by grasping and incapable man, is at last open to
you. One of your ilown-trodden sex has been chosen to fill the post
of “ Grand Worthy Councillor” amongst the Good Templars.
Sporting Definition.—A Grecian Nose—The Straight Tip.
LEVITY IN LE FOLLET.
There is no subject which the most thoughtful of mankind can
discuss more seriously than women are accustomed to talk and write
about dress. Their conversation, relative to that important parti-
cular is more simply grave than any that men ever hold touching
money matters ana business. Any jocular observation which may
in the course of it be ventured upon by a masculine interlocutor is
resented by a blank look and a pause of silence. It is received as a
pun is when made by a buffoon interrupting a Professor’s argument
on theology. The commencement of “Fashions for October,” in
Le Follet, with a joke, is a novelty strange indeed; and therefore
as a stranger give it welcome. Listen :—
“ Our September days this year have, many of them, brought the coming
winter so vividly before us, that the use of wanner and richer materials is
now de rigueur.”
Ha, ha! “ De rigueur ” indispensable—with a view to the
rigour of the approaching winter. Of course. Bravo, Le Follet !
Capital, as your French say, first-rate, brilliant, splendid, excellen t,
pretty well! _
Hackneyed “ Horrors.”
Whilst I am reading my newspaper at breakfast, my servant,
who also reads hers, often interrupts me by asking me a question
about some particular in connection with “that murder.” What
murder ? I always skip murders. There is such a sameness about
them all, and there are so many of them !
One of the People.
A MISNOMER.
Advices from the Gold Coast report that King Coffee does not
exactly answer to his name. He is anything but “ berry ” brown—
in fact, he is “berry” black.