Punch (79.1880)

Octobee 2, 1880.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 155

CONSIDERATE.

Stout Equestrienne (regarding toll-ticket). “ Dear me, my good Man, this must surely be a Mistake. ‘ Horse and Load,
Threepence’! ”

Tollman. “ Noa, noa, Mem—I’ve strook oot tr’ Penny. I hevn’t charged for the Load.”


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THE WHEELS OE HEATH.

Ho ! Shareholders, assemble and hear with bated breath
The mournful lay I sing to-day, ground from the Wheels of Death.
From city and from hamlet still the sad story comes
Of orphan child and widowed wife,

Of shattered sense and lifeless life,

And swiftly stricken homes.

Hark 1 at it smashing and crashing and mashing,

Blending them all in one huge gory pile,

First class and worst class, call all a curst class,

Bought by the Yampire of so much a mile.

See, there go eager workers, with eyes made dim by toil,
Beguiled away for one brief day
To see the sunlit waters play,

Or watch the billows boil,

Beguiled by gaudy placard and bill with colour bright,

Come soon, come late, they ’ll meet the fate
That claims them ere the night.

Hark! at it smashing and crashing and mashing,

Blending them all in one huge gory pile,

Not sent by coercion, but lured by “ Excursion ”

Bought by the Yampire of so much a mile.

And there parts wife from husband, and there goes friend from
friend ;

They little know the road they go,

The fierce and unrelentless foe,

That drags them to their end ;

They little know that fate wills so,

They may not meet again.

Hark at it smashing, and crashing, and mashing,

Blending them all in one huge gory pile;

Maidens and mothers, fathers and brothers,

Bought by the Yampire of so much a mile.

Ho ! shareholders, directors, who rule the iron way,
Whence dead men cry and vainly try,

To stem the death-wheels drawing nigh,

Can endless slaughter pay f
If so, raise high and higher the holocaust of crime,
Let rich and poor, and old and young,

Into the Yampire’s jaws be flung,

For money, money, must be won,

Till the Red Race for aye is run,

And spent and finished Time!

Hark at.it, smashing, and crashing, and mashing,
Blending them all into one gory pile!

First-class and worst class, call all a curst class,
Doomed for the Vampire of so much a mile !

CHINA AND ENGLAND.

“The foot is so squeezed upward
that in walking only the ball of the
great toe touches the ground. . . .
During the first year the pain is so
intense that the sufferer can do no-
thing, and for about two years the
foot aches continually, and is the seat
of a pain which is like the pricking of
sharp needles. With continued rigo-
rous binding, the foot in two years
becomes dead, and ceases to ache. . . .
When once formed, the ‘golden lily,’
as the Chinese lady calls her delicate
little foot, can never recover its ori-
ginal shape.”

The Times, Sept. 22, 1880.
On, benighted Orientals!

“ The waist is so squeezed in, that
whether in walking or riding, the
action of the victim is alike painful
and ludicrous. . . .Not only during
the first year, but for ever the pain is
so intense, that the sufferer can do
nothing without undergoing tortures.
The figure is spoilt, and the damage
done to internal organs is of the
gravest character. The lungs are
contracted, and the heart is griev-
ously affected. . . . When once formed
the ‘wasp waist,’ as the English
lady calls her delicate little waist, can
never recover its original shape.”

Any Medical Book, 1880.

Courtship to re Avoided.—County Courtship.