Punch (72.1877)

AphiL 7, 1577.]

THE ROUND OF THE STUDIOS.

^Esthetic Party (to Child of thelEouse.) "Tell me, Little Boy, was it your
Father who Painted this exquisite Copy of one oe Luca Signorelli's
most exquisite masterpieces ? "

Child of the House (in great trepidation). " Boo-hoo-oo-oo—i want Nursey ! "

SOMEBODY'S ENGAGEMENTS.

During the Easter Holidays Mr. Gladstone will
deliver Addresses on the Burials Bill, the Permissive
Question, and William Caxton.

It has transpired (through a keyhole) that Mr. Glad-
stone is about to make his appearance in an entirely new
arena of distinction. His spare moments are all devoted to
the completion of a large oil painting (an Homeric Subject)
which he will contribute to the new Grosvenor Gallery.

Immediately after the recess, Mr. Gladstone will hold
a conference with the members of the Stock Exchange
on their present position and future prospects.

Mr. Gladstone is busy with a paper for the New Shaks
peare Society on " Shakspeare's Political Opinions."
' Mr. Gladstone's next Lecture to the Members of the
Hawarden Mechanics' Institute will deal with that dis
puted question, " The Botany of the Moon."
w One of the Friday Evening Meetings of the Royal
Institution will probably be given up to a paper by
Mr. Gladstone on "Easter Eggs, and the Way to
Hatch 'Em."

As' President of the Hawarden Cricket Club, Mr
Gladstone has undertaken to revise and remodel the
Rules of that body.

"Pulpits and Preachers" is the attractive title of the
Lecture which Mr. Gladstone will deliver in Exeter
Hall in May, to the Young Men's Mutual Edification
Society.

Mr. Gladstone's journey to Sweden, to investigate
the Gothemburg,system as advocated by Mr. Chamber
lain, M.P., is postponed until the summer.

Negotiations are pending with Mr. Gladstone for an
Address to be spoken on the opening of Her Majesty's
Theatre.

Mr. Gladstone's next article in the Enlightened
Review, will be on "Welsh Mammalia, including the
Rabbit."

Letters from Mr. Gladstone in answer to corre
spondents on Easter Dues, Churchwardens' Elections,
the respective merits of Apollinaris and Taunus Water,
the Folk-Lore of Hot Cross Buns, Deep-Sea Soundings
the rival claims of Scotch and Irish Whiskey, the exact
meaning of Protocol, the proper pronunciation of Igna
tieef, cvc, will shortly appear in the public papers.

Celebrities I Don't Want to Know.

That scandal-loving old sinner Mrs. Grundy.
Duke Humphry's Lhefde Cuisine. _
The President of the Hanging Committee—Jack Ketch.
And the Lion-Comique, the flatness of whose voice is
only equalled by the staleness of his matter.

IN ME MORI AM.

fane f Ipbt| Bnxm.

Died, aged forty-eight, at 98, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, on Saturday,
March 24; Buried at Woking Cemetery, Mo?iday, March 26.

Mrs. Senior, sister of Thomas Hughes, Q.C., and daughter-in-
law of the late Nassau W. Senior, was appointed by the Right
Honourable James Stansfeld, President of the Local Government
Board, first, in February, 1873, temporary Assistant Inspector, and
in January, 1874, permanent Inspector of the Department, to
inquire, and report, especially, on the female departments of
Workhouses and Workhouse Schools, and the care and education
of .female pauper girls and the nursing of infants. She was forced
by the illness of which she died to resign this employment in
November, 1874. Mrs. Senior was the first woman ever employed
in such a capacity.

Not for the bright face we shall see no more,
Not for the sweet voice we no more shall hear;

Not for the heart with kindness brimming o'er,
Large charity, and sympathy sincere.

These are not things that ask a public pen

To blazon its memorial o'er her name ;
But, that in public work she wrought with men,

And faced their frowns, and over-lived their blame.

Yet never swerved a hair's breadth from the line
Of woman's softness, gentleness, and grace;

But brought from these an influence to refine

Rough tasks and squalid, and there leave its trace.

Honour to him who in a sneering age,
Braved quip and carp and cavil, and proclaimed

A woman's fitness pauper needs to gauge,—
In purpose strong, in purity unshamed.

For paupers too have sex : the workhouse walls
Hold mothers, maidens, and girl-babes, on whom

A woman's eye with woman's insight falls,
Sees its own ways for sunlight to their gloom.

And so this noble and brave lady turned
From glad life, luxury, and thronging friends

That hung on her sweet voice, and only yearned
To guide her holy work to useful ends.

But Death to Life begrudged her, striking down
The task unfinished from her willing hands,

Leaving to women yet to come the crown
Of her left life's-work, that for others stands.

Then lay and leave her in her quiet grave,
Where the sun shines undimmed, the rain falls clear,

And birches bend, and deodaras wave
Evergreen arms of welcome o'er her bier.

intra et extra.

They are talking about a newly-discovered Intra- Mercurial
Planet. We are watching the last-discovered -EWra-Mercurial
Planet. It is called, " Gladstone."

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