Punch (68.1875)

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PUNCH, OP THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[April 17, 1875.

LADIES OE THE LONG ROBE.

According to the London Correspondent of the Liverpool Post

“ Some time ago four
ladies, who passed the
London University Ex-
amination tor Women,
entered themselves in
the chambers of well-
known barristers”—

Well, other ladies
have done that —
some as clients,
others in virtue of
their conjugal rights
and duties to tidy
their husbands’
rooms. But the sen-
tence above broken
off concludes with
an explanation:—

-‘ ‘ for the purpose

of studying law.”

A purpose not only
legal, hut laud'able.

It is gratifying to
learn further, re-
specting these foren-
sic ladies, that:—

“ One of them, whose
term of study is closed,
has been engaged by a
firm of solicitors as a
‘consulting counsel,’
and is at once to receive
a salary larger than
the income enjoyed by
scores of barristers who
have been in practice
for years.”

The more employ-
ments fit for gentle-
men that are opened
to ladies the better.

Any such calling is
better than mar-
riage accepted
merely as a situa-
tion. If any girl is
enviable by her sex
for the number of
her suitors it is the
female barrister
whom they come to
consult, leaving fees
behind them, or who
is handsomely paid
for advice by solici-
tors. By the way,
who would make so
good a solicitor as a
fascinating woman?

Whose solicitation
would it be so hard
to resist as hers ?

At the same time
there seems some-
thing.peculiarly ap-
propriate to a lady
in the profession of
the long robe. The
admission of ladies
to practise as barris-
ters and solicitors
would probably have
a certain special
effect on Nisi prius
business. Increase
of remunerative em-
ployment for women

would doubtless he attended with a corresponding diminution of
mercenary espousals, and proportionally of actions for breach of
promise of marriage.

The Best Military Drawing —Drawing your Pay.

((

SHOT FROM A STERN-CHASER.”

Mistress. “Did you ‘make it dp’ with Mrs. Tarragon” (this was the Cook, who
had been very unpopular down-stairs, and had left to he married to a flourishing Greengrocer in
the Neighbourhood) “before she went, Jane?”

Lady's Maid. “ 0, yes, ’M, we parted qcite Friendly, M’um, but I says to heb,

I SAYS, JEST AS SHE WAS A GETTIN’ INTO THE CAB, ‘ EALTH AND ’APPINESS, I WISH YER,

Mrs. Tarrygon,’ I says, ‘ but I should ’a thought as Mr. Brockley might ’a

CHOSE A YOUNGER AND A BETTER-LOOK IN’ WOMAN,’ I SAYS ! !

TEMPERANCE IN THE KIRK.

A Scotch Correspondent informs the Pall Mall Gazette that the

Perth Town Council
the other day, by
sixteen votes against
four, resolved in
future to discon-
tinue a grant of £20
yearly for supplying
brandy and sherry
to the Kirk Ses-
sions of the parish
churches. One does
not see what need
there was for the
Kirk Sessions to be
suppliedwith brandy
and sherry, unless
perhaps in order
that they might dis-
cuss Kirk matters as
the ancient Scyth-
ians, we read in
Tristram Shandy,
used to debate their
affairs—once drunk,
that their coun-
sels might not want
vigour, and then
again sober, in order
that they might not
lack discretion. The
minority of the
Perth Town Coun-
cillors, perhaps, fa-
voured this view ;
moreover one of
them said that ‘ ‘ if
brandy had been
known in St. Paul’s
time, he would have
included that liquor
with wine as good
for the stomach.”
Brandy, not having
been known in St.
Paul’s time, has at
least the merit that,
like punch, as the
Ordinary of New-
gate tells Jonathan
Wild, “It is no-
where spoken
against in Scrip-
ture.” Of course;
as it is nowhere
spoken of. Whiskey,
however, may be
said to be named,
in Greek at least, if
after Porson we may
call it rdSe. As a
national intoxicat-
ing liquor too, Scotch
Presbyterians might
naturally esteem
whiskey more ortho-
dox than brandy.
Whiskey is cheaper
than brandy too. Let
us, however, suppose
the majority of the
Perth Town Council-
lors to be total ab-
stainers, and believe
that their deter-
mination not to allow
the gentlemen of
the Kirk Sessions
solicitude for strict

i.’

brandy and sherry was dictated rather by a
temperance than by a spirit of mean economy.

Jewell’s Apology.—Paste.