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June 13, 1874
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June 13, 1874.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
245
Or, Lord Lush's Derby Dinner.
“ He confessed lie had fixed his entertainment to the Mayors
of Great Britain on the Derby Day, thinking that some of his
friends from the Country might like to see a little of the wicked
world on Epsom Downs.”
‘‘The Mayor of Birmingham (Mr. Chamberlain), in pro-
posing ‘ The Health of the Lord Mayor ’—the mention of
which at the outset elicited an enthusiastic cheer—said he should
not think it necessary to do more than allude to the splendid and
munificent hospitality which his Lordship had exercised gene-
rally, and also on special occasions when he had had to entertain
distinguished personages. In him the Municipal authorities
recognised a worthy leader and representative. In late years
the taunts against Corporate bodies had been less frequent, and
even their facetious friend, Mr. Punch, had indulged himself
less often at their expense.”
Report of the Mansion House Dinner, June 3.
“ The wicked world on Epsom Downs! ”
0, Lord Mayor Lusk, how can you bring
The Mayors of virtuous country towns
Within the vile spells of the Ring ?
They ’ll see the acrobat and gipsy;
They may make bets, they may get tipsy ?
Demoralised they ’ll go away-—
What will Sir Wilfrid Lawson say!
What Mayors went, madly plunging, down,
By rail or ’bus, on drag or hansom ?
Who were but dusted, who done brown,
Who to the Ring paid riot’s ransom.
The Mayor of Doncaster, no doubt,
Cast a shrewd Yorkshire eye about,
And ere he shared the Lord Mayor’s dinner,
Had settled this year’s Leger winner !
HORSES AN1) MAYORS.
A COOL CARD.
Swell (handing “ Sporting Life ” to Clerical Party). “ Aw—would you—aw—
do me the Favour to wead the List of the Waces to me while we ’re
WUNNING DOWN ?—I ’VE —AW—FORGOTTEN MY EYEGLASS. Don’t MIND WAISING
your Voice—I’m pwecious deaf!”
The artful Mayor of Birmingham
May butter Punch, but Punch can say
There never yet was epigram
Of his thrown, e’en on Mayors, away.
Has sense in Common Councils won it ?
Have Mayors improved F Then Punch has done it.
But hold Mayors up as past his jokes !
Ho—tell not that to Derby folks,
Keep it for what it is—an ’Oaks !
Persons who would Benefit ry Cremation.—Char-
Women.
HORSE-SHOW REGULATIONS.
Horses of every country, class, age, size, colour, and condition
are admissible, including Arabians, Barbs, Spanish Jennets, Hudson’s
Bay Horses, Grey Mares, Suffolk (and Fleet Street) Punches;
Piebalds and Skewbalds; Hunters, Hacks, Roadsters, Carriage-
Horses, Cart-Horses, Dray-Horses, Draught-Horses, Doctors’-
Horses, Race-Horses, Rocking-Horses, Towel-Horses, and Clothes-
Horses.
Horses standing (in their shoes) over twenty hands high, must
be shown as extra stock.
Every Horse is liable to be called on (by an eminent veterinary
surgeon, who will first leave his card) to furnish satisfactory proofs
of his age at a minute and a half’s notice. Owners are therefore
requested to see that the teeth are properly cleaned each morning of
the Show. No particular dentifrice is recommended.
The utmost delicacy and forbearance will be shown in investi-
gating the age of Mares. If desired, the details will not he published.
Horse-chestnuts, and every other description of provender, will be
provided in abundance.
Any groom detected mixing gin with the water, in order to make
his horse more spirited, will be instantly ejected from the Hall.
Horses that have been in India will be allowed an extra curry
each day of the Show.
Arrangements will be made for clipping and singeing by some of
the first artistes of the day ; and, in consideration of the heat of the
weather, any Horse may he shampooed, on expressing a wish to that
effect beforehand.
By the kind permission of the Commanding Officers, detachments
from the different Regiments of Horse Guards will be on duty to
protect the Prize Animals. A troop of Coldstreams will be told off
to look after the Watering.
In the event of the Duke and Duchess oe Edinburgh visiting
the Show, a Guard of Honour will be supplied by the Horse
Marines.
Should any mistakes he made in the jumping and leaping, the
Directors earnestly hope that the spectators will preserve order, and
refrain from bursting out into horse-laughs.
The Judges will be selected from the Daw Courts, and wear their
horse-hair wigs.
The Master of the Horse will award the Prizes.
The Band of the Royal Horse Artillery will perform a selection of
music from Le Cheval de Pronze and other favourite operas.
Saddles of mutton for luncheons and dinners. Excellent accommo-
dation for bridal parties. Stirrup-cup always ready. A grand
international show of horse-radish. Roast beef on. application.
The exhibition of every description of carriage is invited, except
horse-flies.
Horse-hair sofas fresh from the fountain-head.
Grooms of the chambers will be in attendance to escort Ladies to
the stalls. Cheval glasses all over the Building. Studs everywhere.
“ Women and Work.”
An old and faithful worker in the cause of women (Emfly of that
ilk) has started a weekly paper, which, if it keeps up to its purpose
and its promises, deserves Punch’’s support and that of all friends
of the feebler and fairer, softer and sweeter, willinger and weaker,
worse-used and worse paid, harder-worked and harder-thrashed,
sex (Punch is hound to add, in fairness, a*»d under his breath,
the nagginger and nastier when it chooses).. Miss Eaitheull calls
her paper Women and Work; its object being to make known the
work to the women who want it, and the women to the work that
wants them. Punch can only wish good speed to the woman and
her work ; for it is sorely needed.
A MISTAKE.
The Mayors were leashed at the Mansion House on the Derby
Day. The Oaks Day would have been more appropriate.
Vol. 66.
8
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
245
Or, Lord Lush's Derby Dinner.
“ He confessed lie had fixed his entertainment to the Mayors
of Great Britain on the Derby Day, thinking that some of his
friends from the Country might like to see a little of the wicked
world on Epsom Downs.”
‘‘The Mayor of Birmingham (Mr. Chamberlain), in pro-
posing ‘ The Health of the Lord Mayor ’—the mention of
which at the outset elicited an enthusiastic cheer—said he should
not think it necessary to do more than allude to the splendid and
munificent hospitality which his Lordship had exercised gene-
rally, and also on special occasions when he had had to entertain
distinguished personages. In him the Municipal authorities
recognised a worthy leader and representative. In late years
the taunts against Corporate bodies had been less frequent, and
even their facetious friend, Mr. Punch, had indulged himself
less often at their expense.”
Report of the Mansion House Dinner, June 3.
“ The wicked world on Epsom Downs! ”
0, Lord Mayor Lusk, how can you bring
The Mayors of virtuous country towns
Within the vile spells of the Ring ?
They ’ll see the acrobat and gipsy;
They may make bets, they may get tipsy ?
Demoralised they ’ll go away-—
What will Sir Wilfrid Lawson say!
What Mayors went, madly plunging, down,
By rail or ’bus, on drag or hansom ?
Who were but dusted, who done brown,
Who to the Ring paid riot’s ransom.
The Mayor of Doncaster, no doubt,
Cast a shrewd Yorkshire eye about,
And ere he shared the Lord Mayor’s dinner,
Had settled this year’s Leger winner !
HORSES AN1) MAYORS.
A COOL CARD.
Swell (handing “ Sporting Life ” to Clerical Party). “ Aw—would you—aw—
do me the Favour to wead the List of the Waces to me while we ’re
WUNNING DOWN ?—I ’VE —AW—FORGOTTEN MY EYEGLASS. Don’t MIND WAISING
your Voice—I’m pwecious deaf!”
The artful Mayor of Birmingham
May butter Punch, but Punch can say
There never yet was epigram
Of his thrown, e’en on Mayors, away.
Has sense in Common Councils won it ?
Have Mayors improved F Then Punch has done it.
But hold Mayors up as past his jokes !
Ho—tell not that to Derby folks,
Keep it for what it is—an ’Oaks !
Persons who would Benefit ry Cremation.—Char-
Women.
HORSE-SHOW REGULATIONS.
Horses of every country, class, age, size, colour, and condition
are admissible, including Arabians, Barbs, Spanish Jennets, Hudson’s
Bay Horses, Grey Mares, Suffolk (and Fleet Street) Punches;
Piebalds and Skewbalds; Hunters, Hacks, Roadsters, Carriage-
Horses, Cart-Horses, Dray-Horses, Draught-Horses, Doctors’-
Horses, Race-Horses, Rocking-Horses, Towel-Horses, and Clothes-
Horses.
Horses standing (in their shoes) over twenty hands high, must
be shown as extra stock.
Every Horse is liable to be called on (by an eminent veterinary
surgeon, who will first leave his card) to furnish satisfactory proofs
of his age at a minute and a half’s notice. Owners are therefore
requested to see that the teeth are properly cleaned each morning of
the Show. No particular dentifrice is recommended.
The utmost delicacy and forbearance will be shown in investi-
gating the age of Mares. If desired, the details will not he published.
Horse-chestnuts, and every other description of provender, will be
provided in abundance.
Any groom detected mixing gin with the water, in order to make
his horse more spirited, will be instantly ejected from the Hall.
Horses that have been in India will be allowed an extra curry
each day of the Show.
Arrangements will be made for clipping and singeing by some of
the first artistes of the day ; and, in consideration of the heat of the
weather, any Horse may he shampooed, on expressing a wish to that
effect beforehand.
By the kind permission of the Commanding Officers, detachments
from the different Regiments of Horse Guards will be on duty to
protect the Prize Animals. A troop of Coldstreams will be told off
to look after the Watering.
In the event of the Duke and Duchess oe Edinburgh visiting
the Show, a Guard of Honour will be supplied by the Horse
Marines.
Should any mistakes he made in the jumping and leaping, the
Directors earnestly hope that the spectators will preserve order, and
refrain from bursting out into horse-laughs.
The Judges will be selected from the Daw Courts, and wear their
horse-hair wigs.
The Master of the Horse will award the Prizes.
The Band of the Royal Horse Artillery will perform a selection of
music from Le Cheval de Pronze and other favourite operas.
Saddles of mutton for luncheons and dinners. Excellent accommo-
dation for bridal parties. Stirrup-cup always ready. A grand
international show of horse-radish. Roast beef on. application.
The exhibition of every description of carriage is invited, except
horse-flies.
Horse-hair sofas fresh from the fountain-head.
Grooms of the chambers will be in attendance to escort Ladies to
the stalls. Cheval glasses all over the Building. Studs everywhere.
“ Women and Work.”
An old and faithful worker in the cause of women (Emfly of that
ilk) has started a weekly paper, which, if it keeps up to its purpose
and its promises, deserves Punch’’s support and that of all friends
of the feebler and fairer, softer and sweeter, willinger and weaker,
worse-used and worse paid, harder-worked and harder-thrashed,
sex (Punch is hound to add, in fairness, a*»d under his breath,
the nagginger and nastier when it chooses).. Miss Eaitheull calls
her paper Women and Work; its object being to make known the
work to the women who want it, and the women to the work that
wants them. Punch can only wish good speed to the woman and
her work ; for it is sorely needed.
A MISTAKE.
The Mayors were leashed at the Mansion House on the Derby
Day. The Oaks Day would have been more appropriate.
Vol. 66.
8