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February 21, 1874
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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI- [February 21, 1874.
DEVELOPMENT IN FRANCE.
ost certainly a
continuance of
that ascent in
moral and intel-
lectual develop-
ment, the com-
mencement of
which was indi-
cated the other
day in the capital
of France by the
phenomenon of
actual attention
to some perfor-
mances of Han-
del’s music, on
the part of audi-
ences who really
found themselves
very considerably
pleased with what
they heard, is
evidenced in the
following mes-
sage which ar-
rived by the
Wheatstone wire
from—
“ Paris, Feb. 8.
“The Court of As-
size at Melun have condemned Prince Soutzo, who lately shot Prince Ghika in a duel,
to four years’ imprisonment, and his two seconds, and those of Prince Ghiica, to two
years’ imprisonment.”
The serious enforcement of the laws against duelling, thus commenced,
clearly betokens an upward step in that ladder 01 neing
on whose lower round stands the savage, or swings, if
you prefer to think so, the anthropoid ape. To minds
disposed to take pessimist views of the future of France,
this indication is truly “ cheering.” There is now hope
that Frenchmen are beginning to discover the essential
brutality of duelling, and that of duelling not only as
regarded by the sentiments, but also as estimated by the
intellectual faculties, which likewise distinguish men
from brutes. Let us remember, however, that our fore-
fathers, at a time within man’s memory, were, with
respect to an “ affair of honour,” no more human, either
in point of feeling or intelligence, than our contemporaries
and neighbours across the Channel have been hitherto.
Society in England, not very many years ago, was so
stupid as well as so iniquitous as to require that whoso-
ever had received a grave insult, though merely verbal,
should, on pain of infamy, vindicate his reputation by
inviting the author of the affront to a combat, in which
he who had offered him an indignity would have at least
an even chance of also killing him.
The necessity thus imposed on every gentleman enabled
any genteel blackguard, who might wish to murder him,
to force him to allow him an opportunity of making the
attempt, at the risk only of the blackguard’s own worth-
less life. For that purpose, the blackguard needed do
nothing more than brandish a whip in the gentleman’s
face, or give him the lie. This preposterous atrocity of
social law has been obsolete in England for about these
thirty years. It is only just now that things are, as
above instanced, beginning to he managed better in
France. But they have now, at last, begun; and the
French, so long celebrated as a logical people, appear to
be in a way to show some cause why they should he so
styled, in so far as they seem to be getting, at length, to
understand the logic of duelling.
OUR “WANTS” COLUMN.
Wanted, as Companion to a Single Lady of aristocratic con-
nections, refined manners, and elegant tastes, a Grey Parrot, young
and handsome, with a copious vocabulary and some knowledge, of
French. The bird must always have resided in county families,
and he prepared with a written guarantee that it has never been
known to utter a word which could offend the most fastidious ear.
A comfortable home, and no Cats. Price no object, hut the suc-
cessful candidate will be required to come a month on trial. Call,
with the bird, on Miss Ttjeflet, 10, Telemachus Terrace, W., the
first Wednesday in April.
A Professed Cook is open to an appointment in the household of a
Nobleman or Gentleman, residing at least four months in the year
in the West End of London. She has been habituated to the ser-
vices of two female Kitchen attendants, and could not undertake to
supply breakfast at an earlier hour than 10"30 a.m. She would
have no objection to appear in the drawing-room or housekeeper’s
apartment every morning, to take instructions as to the necessary
arrangements for luncheon and dinner for the family, but she could
not engage to prepare servants’ meals. Saturday afternoon and
Sunday evening to be at her own disposal, together with one night
in the week for visiting or receiving her friends. Vacations—a
month in the Summerj a fortnight at Christmas, and a week either
at Easter or Whitsuntide. The question of pecuniary compensation
can be discussed in a personal interview, and the advertiser wtll be
happy to call on any lady, by appointment, after luncheon, for that
purpose. Letters addressed to Miss F. S. G., care of Me. C. Kale,
Purveyor of Garden Produce, 106, Mirabel Street, N., will receive
due attention.
Lad Wanted. He must he quick as lightning, sharp as a needle,
still as a mouse, close as wax, and honest as the day. As the
Advertiser has an invincible objection to the sound of sneezing, no
hoy liable to a cold in the head need apply.—0. D. Lb, 1, Great
Commerce Street, E.C.
Wanted, by a Single Gentleman, respectable apartments in a
quiet house, in a quiet street, within sight of the Monument.
There must be no smoke either from the chimneys or tobacco; no
musical instruments ; no cats, dogs, birds, children, or other domes-
tic pets ; and the average length of service attained by the last four
servants should be at least three months. The house must have a
south-west aspect, and not be overlooked either in front or behind,
and be within a convenient distance of a pillar-box, a drinking
fountain, a newsvendor’s, a Literary Institution, a Fire Brigade
Station, and a bowling-green. The Advertiser, who is nervous,
fidgety, eccentric, irritable, very difficult to please, and unable to
bear the slightest noise without giving immediate notice to quit, is
leaving his present lodgings because the stairs creak, and the
servant let two dishes fall on the kitchen floor within one week. To
prevent unnecessary applications, it is as well also to mention that
in the rooms he previously occupied the contiguity of a water-butt
to his bedroom wall proved an insupportable irritation. Address,
stating terms, which must not exceed 12s. a week (all extras in-
cluded), “Peculiar,” Post Office, Pinktrip, Essex.
Wanted, a large quantity of Second-hand Wooden Legs. Apply
“ with the legs” in brown holland cases, between six and seven,
at 445, Cripplegate, E.C.
A Widower, whose liver has been affected by a protracted resi-
dence in tropical countries, requires the services of an active, accom-
plished, energetic lady to superintend the education of his four
daughters, whose most prominent characteristic is the ungovernable
violence of their tempers ; and to undertake the management of
three self-willed old servants. She must possess a cheerful disposi-
tion and perfect temper, have no relations within fifty miles, and be
skilful at all games of cards. A personal interview is indispensable,
but as a necessary preliminary an untouched carte should be for-
warded to Nicholas Tyffin, Esq., Chutneypore House, West
Lambeth.
Wanted, by a General Agent, a Menagerie, an Orchestra, a Cargo
of Caviare, an Iron Church, a second-hand Balloon, a pair of Black
Swans, a White Elephant, a Tortoiseshell Tom-cat, several Acres of
Ground suitable for building purposes in the immediate neighbour-
hood of Hyde Park, a Diamond Mine, a pair of Silver Snuffers, an
Organ, a quantity of old Bell-ropes, and fifty General Servants who
know their work—and their place. Apply (with samples) to
A. T. Z., International Hotel, Upper Ten Thousand Street. S. W.
Advice to an Amphitryon.
By an experienced Diner-Out.
At your banquets never allow the Wives to sit opposite their
Husbands. Not only flirting (i.e., fun) is rendered utterly imprac-
ticable under such conditions, but there is a Gorgonism in each
other’s eyes which petrifies their tongues when they catch sight of
one another. Let every Wife be seated on the same side as her
Husband, and as far from him as possible : then, although it may be
mostly carried on in undertones, you will never find the conversation
for a single moment cease.
New Definition of a Tap-doom.—A place where Spiritualists
meet.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI- [February 21, 1874.
DEVELOPMENT IN FRANCE.
ost certainly a
continuance of
that ascent in
moral and intel-
lectual develop-
ment, the com-
mencement of
which was indi-
cated the other
day in the capital
of France by the
phenomenon of
actual attention
to some perfor-
mances of Han-
del’s music, on
the part of audi-
ences who really
found themselves
very considerably
pleased with what
they heard, is
evidenced in the
following mes-
sage which ar-
rived by the
Wheatstone wire
from—
“ Paris, Feb. 8.
“The Court of As-
size at Melun have condemned Prince Soutzo, who lately shot Prince Ghika in a duel,
to four years’ imprisonment, and his two seconds, and those of Prince Ghiica, to two
years’ imprisonment.”
The serious enforcement of the laws against duelling, thus commenced,
clearly betokens an upward step in that ladder 01 neing
on whose lower round stands the savage, or swings, if
you prefer to think so, the anthropoid ape. To minds
disposed to take pessimist views of the future of France,
this indication is truly “ cheering.” There is now hope
that Frenchmen are beginning to discover the essential
brutality of duelling, and that of duelling not only as
regarded by the sentiments, but also as estimated by the
intellectual faculties, which likewise distinguish men
from brutes. Let us remember, however, that our fore-
fathers, at a time within man’s memory, were, with
respect to an “ affair of honour,” no more human, either
in point of feeling or intelligence, than our contemporaries
and neighbours across the Channel have been hitherto.
Society in England, not very many years ago, was so
stupid as well as so iniquitous as to require that whoso-
ever had received a grave insult, though merely verbal,
should, on pain of infamy, vindicate his reputation by
inviting the author of the affront to a combat, in which
he who had offered him an indignity would have at least
an even chance of also killing him.
The necessity thus imposed on every gentleman enabled
any genteel blackguard, who might wish to murder him,
to force him to allow him an opportunity of making the
attempt, at the risk only of the blackguard’s own worth-
less life. For that purpose, the blackguard needed do
nothing more than brandish a whip in the gentleman’s
face, or give him the lie. This preposterous atrocity of
social law has been obsolete in England for about these
thirty years. It is only just now that things are, as
above instanced, beginning to he managed better in
France. But they have now, at last, begun; and the
French, so long celebrated as a logical people, appear to
be in a way to show some cause why they should he so
styled, in so far as they seem to be getting, at length, to
understand the logic of duelling.
OUR “WANTS” COLUMN.
Wanted, as Companion to a Single Lady of aristocratic con-
nections, refined manners, and elegant tastes, a Grey Parrot, young
and handsome, with a copious vocabulary and some knowledge, of
French. The bird must always have resided in county families,
and he prepared with a written guarantee that it has never been
known to utter a word which could offend the most fastidious ear.
A comfortable home, and no Cats. Price no object, hut the suc-
cessful candidate will be required to come a month on trial. Call,
with the bird, on Miss Ttjeflet, 10, Telemachus Terrace, W., the
first Wednesday in April.
A Professed Cook is open to an appointment in the household of a
Nobleman or Gentleman, residing at least four months in the year
in the West End of London. She has been habituated to the ser-
vices of two female Kitchen attendants, and could not undertake to
supply breakfast at an earlier hour than 10"30 a.m. She would
have no objection to appear in the drawing-room or housekeeper’s
apartment every morning, to take instructions as to the necessary
arrangements for luncheon and dinner for the family, but she could
not engage to prepare servants’ meals. Saturday afternoon and
Sunday evening to be at her own disposal, together with one night
in the week for visiting or receiving her friends. Vacations—a
month in the Summerj a fortnight at Christmas, and a week either
at Easter or Whitsuntide. The question of pecuniary compensation
can be discussed in a personal interview, and the advertiser wtll be
happy to call on any lady, by appointment, after luncheon, for that
purpose. Letters addressed to Miss F. S. G., care of Me. C. Kale,
Purveyor of Garden Produce, 106, Mirabel Street, N., will receive
due attention.
Lad Wanted. He must he quick as lightning, sharp as a needle,
still as a mouse, close as wax, and honest as the day. As the
Advertiser has an invincible objection to the sound of sneezing, no
hoy liable to a cold in the head need apply.—0. D. Lb, 1, Great
Commerce Street, E.C.
Wanted, by a Single Gentleman, respectable apartments in a
quiet house, in a quiet street, within sight of the Monument.
There must be no smoke either from the chimneys or tobacco; no
musical instruments ; no cats, dogs, birds, children, or other domes-
tic pets ; and the average length of service attained by the last four
servants should be at least three months. The house must have a
south-west aspect, and not be overlooked either in front or behind,
and be within a convenient distance of a pillar-box, a drinking
fountain, a newsvendor’s, a Literary Institution, a Fire Brigade
Station, and a bowling-green. The Advertiser, who is nervous,
fidgety, eccentric, irritable, very difficult to please, and unable to
bear the slightest noise without giving immediate notice to quit, is
leaving his present lodgings because the stairs creak, and the
servant let two dishes fall on the kitchen floor within one week. To
prevent unnecessary applications, it is as well also to mention that
in the rooms he previously occupied the contiguity of a water-butt
to his bedroom wall proved an insupportable irritation. Address,
stating terms, which must not exceed 12s. a week (all extras in-
cluded), “Peculiar,” Post Office, Pinktrip, Essex.
Wanted, a large quantity of Second-hand Wooden Legs. Apply
“ with the legs” in brown holland cases, between six and seven,
at 445, Cripplegate, E.C.
A Widower, whose liver has been affected by a protracted resi-
dence in tropical countries, requires the services of an active, accom-
plished, energetic lady to superintend the education of his four
daughters, whose most prominent characteristic is the ungovernable
violence of their tempers ; and to undertake the management of
three self-willed old servants. She must possess a cheerful disposi-
tion and perfect temper, have no relations within fifty miles, and be
skilful at all games of cards. A personal interview is indispensable,
but as a necessary preliminary an untouched carte should be for-
warded to Nicholas Tyffin, Esq., Chutneypore House, West
Lambeth.
Wanted, by a General Agent, a Menagerie, an Orchestra, a Cargo
of Caviare, an Iron Church, a second-hand Balloon, a pair of Black
Swans, a White Elephant, a Tortoiseshell Tom-cat, several Acres of
Ground suitable for building purposes in the immediate neighbour-
hood of Hyde Park, a Diamond Mine, a pair of Silver Snuffers, an
Organ, a quantity of old Bell-ropes, and fifty General Servants who
know their work—and their place. Apply (with samples) to
A. T. Z., International Hotel, Upper Ten Thousand Street. S. W.
Advice to an Amphitryon.
By an experienced Diner-Out.
At your banquets never allow the Wives to sit opposite their
Husbands. Not only flirting (i.e., fun) is rendered utterly imprac-
ticable under such conditions, but there is a Gorgonism in each
other’s eyes which petrifies their tongues when they catch sight of
one another. Let every Wife be seated on the same side as her
Husband, and as far from him as possible : then, although it may be
mostly carried on in undertones, you will never find the conversation
for a single moment cease.
New Definition of a Tap-doom.—A place where Spiritualists
meet.