Punch (72.1877)

66 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [February 17, 1877.

TRUE ARTISTIC REFINEMENT.

" Died of a colour, in aesthetic pain."

Hostess. "We're going down to Supper, Mr. Mirabel. Let me introduce you to Miss Chalmers."
Mr. Mirabel. " A—pardon me—is that the tall Young Lady standing by your Husband ?"
Hostess. "Yes. She's the most charming Girl I know."

Mr. Mirabel. "I've no doubt. Bdt—a—she affects aniline Dyes, don't you know? I weally couldn't go down to
Suppah with a Young Lady who wears Mauve Twimmings in her Skirt, and Magenta "Wibbons in Her Hair!"

MATEKFAMILTAS ON THE MEAT QUESTION.

Sixpence a pound ! A blessed thought! I hope this time it's no
vain vision.

Ah! bring; the Butchers down a bit, and house-keeping might be
Elysian;

But what with those blue-coated wolves, and trade in such a state
as trade is,

A prudent woman to venture beyond Australian tinned afraid is,

Yet from your preserved meats, preserve me !—/never could con-
ceit 'em;

And servants—drat their dainty ways!—declared they'd sooner

starve than eat 'em.
But these American frozen joints—though freezing victuals does

seem funny,—

By all accounts, are good and cheap, and that's the market for my
money.

Cheap! "Word of comfort to a wife! And yet it almost sounds like
mocking,

For prices keep on going up to an extent that's really shocking.
And prices, like that rash young man in Mr. Longfellow's sad ditty,
When once they take to rising, ivonH come down again—more's the
pity.

Excelsior is the Butchers' cry; at rising they 're as smart as rockets :
And show themselves natural enemies of every woman's peace and

pockets:

And if so be this frozen beef should only bring the brutes to book a
bit,

I'd breathe a blessing on those Yankees, every time I had to cook a
bit.

But if they 're going to buy it cheap and pocket the extra profit,
Like those Scotch cheats, 1 can't say I see much good folks are like
to get off it.

They '11 raise a cry and say, no doubt, they 're froze out, like

gardeners,—drat 'em !
But much I fear they 're far too sly to let us buyers tit-for-tat 'em.

They've always got some fine excuse—flood, drought, war, rinder-
pest, and so on;

Don't tell me ! Government ought to stop the way these Butchers
go on.

Thousands of tons of Yankee meat imported monthly ? The more
surprising,

Spite of States' beef and Canadian too, my bills should still keep
rising!__

"Wearing of the Green."

The following is an extract from The Irish Times of February G,
1877 :—

"Speaking of his Grace reminds me that his noble Lad}', the Duchess,
created quite a sensation last week by driving down Grafton Street, preceded
by two outriders, in a pale-green silk dress. Her reception all along the way
was very warm, the people being evidently pleased at the marked compliment
meant to be paid to Ireland by the colour of the dress."

What a pity the people of Ireland are not oftener put in a good-
humour when it takes so little to please them !

a aUESTION of sex.

" Eques " wants to know whether the horse christened " Manage-
ment " in our last Cartoon should not have been a filly, and named
Mis-Management f