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310 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [January 4, 1879.

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heads of either Miss Jessie or Miss Victoria, and seems to say, "It's my fate, I must do it, I
can't help it, I must use my legs like this—it's only once a year—bless you—it can't be helped—it's
of no consequence "—and exeunt omnes.

There is one genuinely artistic bit in Miss Victoria's performance of Cinderella. It is this.
When the family have gone to the ball, she, left disconsolate at home, the drudge in the kitchen,
dresses up two chairs, and "makes believe very much," like the immortal 3farchioness with the
orange-peel—that they are her partners in a dance ; then she sets to them, and dances with them;
but at last, unable to keep up the farce any longer, the thoughts of her father's and her sisters'
cruelty overcome her, and sinking on the chair her pent-up sorrow finds relief in tears.1,

That great pantomimic artist, Grimaldi, could, it is said, draw tears from his audience as easily
as he could make them split their sides with laughter. Were it only for this one most admirable
touch of nature on the part of Miss Victoria Vokes, the Drury Lane Pantomime would be well
worth a visit. So make your arrangements for seeing Cinderella as soon as possible, and write
to your friends, everybody, to " Meet you at the Lane when the Clock strikes Seven-fifteen," as very
soon after half - past the Annual commences, and of course, not for worlds could anyone miss a note
of the Overture, at least, that is the feeling of Your Representative.

The Shoein Time.—As soon as the streets are frozen hard,—but not till then, of course-
lose no time in taking the proper steps to have your horses provided with screw-pegs—against
the approaching thaw.

CYPRUS-THE IDEAL AND
THE REAL.

" Lawn—as white as driven snow ;
Cypru6—black as any crow,"

sings Autolycus.

Lord Beaconsfield improves on his
great original, and sings "Cyprus,
white as driven snow." Strange
that so astute a man, and so prac-
tised a tactician, should go out of his
way to paint for his Frisco admirers
a picture of Cyprus in couleur de
rose,_ which lies open to the flat con-
tradiction of facts, and the correction
of every dispassionate and intelligent
observer. Look at the fancy-picture
painted by Lord Beaconsfield in
his speech on the presentation of the
San Franoiseo casket, by the side of
the closely studied sketch from na-
ture of Thomas Brassey, M.P., in
the Times of a few days ago, if you
want to know how rash and reck-
less in assertion unresisted and un-
contradicted supremacy in Court
and Cabinet, and contempt of the
public together, can make a long-
headed politician, and a master of all
the arts of speech and the tricks of
party steering.

Read too, Mr. Brassey's letter, all
you who believe that the lessons of
Crimean blundering and Crimean
disaster have borne fruit in better
arrangements, or more sensible or-
ders from the War-Office authori-
ties, and more efficient execution of
them by their employes.

The Duke of Cambridge complains
that the British public ivill treat
the official heads of the Army as
fools. After reading Mr. Brassey's
account of the sanitary blunders and
commissariat stupidities at Cyprus,
can the Duke wonder at it ?

When one thinks of the precious
lives sacrificed, and the good men
left with shattered constitutions, by
the imbecile mismanagement which
disgraced the installation of our
troops in Cyprus—always allowing
for the cold-blooded sacrifice of the
health, comfort, and convenience of
ten thousand to the momentary
triumph of one great political player
at the game of brag,—Punch feels
apt to fall back into the impatient
wrath of Crimean times, and to ask,
with all respect for our well-meaning
Commander-in-Chief—"whom shall
we get rid of?"; if not, totidem
verbis,—"whom shall we hang ?"

Woman's Right of Bights.

When Stansfeld woman's ques-
tions weighs,
Her "rights" Punch won't dis-
parage,

But for nine out of ten, he says,
The highest Rite is marriage!

Parallels.

Lines, that !may be prolonged, ad
infinitum, without ever meeting, as
ex. gr. Views on—

1. The Eastern Question.

2. The Roofing of St. Alban's Abbey.

Retrospect and Prospect.—Look
back—Black! Look ahead—Red!

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