DOI Heft:
October 16, 1880
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PUNCH, OH THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [October 16, 1880.
“ LES EILFAN3 AJJ BESSOUS EE SEPT ANS PAYENT MOITIE PLACE.”
“ Off, YOU SPEAK ENGLISH, DO YOU ? AND WHAT IS YOUR AGE, MlSSY ? ”
“ Vjgh Age ? Maman says I have Two Ages. Ven I am in ze Railway, I am
Six and a Alf ; and yen I am at Ome, I am Eight ! ”
LECTURETTES.
_ “ At the annual meeting of the Worcestershire
Union of Clubs and Institutes, Sir Edmund
Lechmere suggested lecturettes in the place of
lectures.”
We know that lectures are a bore,
And often make folks fret,
But now it seems they ’ll soon be o’er,
Eor here’s the Lecturette.
Long letters take too long to read.
We speedily forget
What they contain, and so we plead
Eor Lamb’s Epistolette.
’Tis very hard to read at ease
, Long columns, therefore let
The leader henceforth, if you please,
Be just the Leaderette.
And lengthy sermons take up time,
With scant attention met.
Oh, preachers! here’s a thought sublime!
Give us the Sermonette.
KTovel Anticipations.
_ The Sour Gooseberry. By the Author of
Cherry Pipe.
Between Two Paving-Stones. By the
Author of Under Two Flags.
Photographed at the Creation. By the
Author of Taken at the Flood.
Old Boots. Sequel to Bead Men’s Shoes.
Walk to Skye. By the Author of Pun to
Earth.
The Black Bottle. A companion to The
Love that Kills.
NEW SONG.
“ Winter Begins,” by the Composer of
“Autumn Leaves.” Also
“ The Bungler ,” a companion to “ The
Bugler.”
Two Opposition Election Agents.—
“ Par Nobble-t FratrumP
SCHOOL-BOARDS OR BOOL BOARDS ?
The men who undertake to teach or regulate the teaching of the
multitude, should not require teaching. It should not be possible
for an impartial looker-on, like Punch, to write them down asses,
and. something worse. Who is the Rev. H. M. Sorley ? An influ-
ential member of the Tottenham School-Board, regulating the educa-
tional affairs of Would-be-Green. Would-be-Green is blessed or
cursed, according to the view you take, with a rival educational
establishment, or sink of iniquity, called the Alexandra Palace.
This palace, unlike most palaces, pays enormous rates and taxes,
instead of consuming national money, and employs a number of
children. How does it employ them ? The Rev. TL M. Sorley (it
ought to be printed “Surly”) thinks very badly. He understood
“that one young child came on at the Palace as Mr. Gladstone,
another as Lord Beaconsfield, and a third as Napoleon Bonaparte.
They ought to he learning to spell instead of being allowed to repre-
sent such exalted individuals, the doing of which would have the
effect of puffing them up with such notions of their own superiority
that they would come to the conclusion that they could do without
education altogether.”
Surely the spirit of the late lamented Bumble inspired this
speech. Is there no “puffing up” in the School-Board scheme of
education ? Has the Rev. Mr. Sorley, who carried his point with
the aid of another Rnverend, instructed the Would-be-Green school-
master to avoid all historical and political teaching, all allusions to
Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell, for fear of “ puffing up ” his
pupils ? Has he been told to go back to the rustic simplicity of the
“ three R’s,” and to avoid everything which the School-Board was
established to teach P
There are School-Boards and School Bores, the latter having been
dragged from Vestry-Halls and obscure pulpits to administer a
system they neither understand nor appreciate. Having brought
Local Self-Government into contempt, and made the Gospel unpopu-
lar, they are now doing their best to strangle compulsory education.
They know nothing of life, of human nature, of the struggle for
bare existence in the homes of the multitude. They count the
crammed heads, and care nothing for the empty stomachs under-
neath them. The famished child may come and go as long as he can
aspirate his h’s. They are great at prosecutions, and unflinching in
the application of their bye-laws. They have no elasticity—no give
and take in their disposition ; and if they fail in exacting fines from
the poorest of the poor, it is due to the superior humanity of the
Stipendiary Magistrates. If Compulsory Education is to live and
move and do its work, it must first be applied to the minds and
hearts of its Directors.
THE MEMORIAL OBSTRUCTION.
(Discussed Thursday, October 7, in Court of Common Council.)
Says Mr. Bedford, “ Cost P Oh, I expect
Five thousand, say, or six, to be correct—
At least so states the City Architect.”
They call the City Architect, and then
Says he, “ This work of Art, 0 Council Men,
Cannot be done at all for less than ten.”
Some loudly cry, “ Rescind the Resolution! ”
More shout, “ No! that’s against our Constitution !
We sinned at first, we know ; to that we ’re pinned,
Never shall it be said that we re-sinned.”
Form of Telegram to tour Shoemaker.—Make me another pair
exactly like my last.
PUNCH, OH THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [October 16, 1880.
“ LES EILFAN3 AJJ BESSOUS EE SEPT ANS PAYENT MOITIE PLACE.”
“ Off, YOU SPEAK ENGLISH, DO YOU ? AND WHAT IS YOUR AGE, MlSSY ? ”
“ Vjgh Age ? Maman says I have Two Ages. Ven I am in ze Railway, I am
Six and a Alf ; and yen I am at Ome, I am Eight ! ”
LECTURETTES.
_ “ At the annual meeting of the Worcestershire
Union of Clubs and Institutes, Sir Edmund
Lechmere suggested lecturettes in the place of
lectures.”
We know that lectures are a bore,
And often make folks fret,
But now it seems they ’ll soon be o’er,
Eor here’s the Lecturette.
Long letters take too long to read.
We speedily forget
What they contain, and so we plead
Eor Lamb’s Epistolette.
’Tis very hard to read at ease
, Long columns, therefore let
The leader henceforth, if you please,
Be just the Leaderette.
And lengthy sermons take up time,
With scant attention met.
Oh, preachers! here’s a thought sublime!
Give us the Sermonette.
KTovel Anticipations.
_ The Sour Gooseberry. By the Author of
Cherry Pipe.
Between Two Paving-Stones. By the
Author of Under Two Flags.
Photographed at the Creation. By the
Author of Taken at the Flood.
Old Boots. Sequel to Bead Men’s Shoes.
Walk to Skye. By the Author of Pun to
Earth.
The Black Bottle. A companion to The
Love that Kills.
NEW SONG.
“ Winter Begins,” by the Composer of
“Autumn Leaves.” Also
“ The Bungler ,” a companion to “ The
Bugler.”
Two Opposition Election Agents.—
“ Par Nobble-t FratrumP
SCHOOL-BOARDS OR BOOL BOARDS ?
The men who undertake to teach or regulate the teaching of the
multitude, should not require teaching. It should not be possible
for an impartial looker-on, like Punch, to write them down asses,
and. something worse. Who is the Rev. H. M. Sorley ? An influ-
ential member of the Tottenham School-Board, regulating the educa-
tional affairs of Would-be-Green. Would-be-Green is blessed or
cursed, according to the view you take, with a rival educational
establishment, or sink of iniquity, called the Alexandra Palace.
This palace, unlike most palaces, pays enormous rates and taxes,
instead of consuming national money, and employs a number of
children. How does it employ them ? The Rev. TL M. Sorley (it
ought to be printed “Surly”) thinks very badly. He understood
“that one young child came on at the Palace as Mr. Gladstone,
another as Lord Beaconsfield, and a third as Napoleon Bonaparte.
They ought to he learning to spell instead of being allowed to repre-
sent such exalted individuals, the doing of which would have the
effect of puffing them up with such notions of their own superiority
that they would come to the conclusion that they could do without
education altogether.”
Surely the spirit of the late lamented Bumble inspired this
speech. Is there no “puffing up” in the School-Board scheme of
education ? Has the Rev. Mr. Sorley, who carried his point with
the aid of another Rnverend, instructed the Would-be-Green school-
master to avoid all historical and political teaching, all allusions to
Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell, for fear of “ puffing up ” his
pupils ? Has he been told to go back to the rustic simplicity of the
“ three R’s,” and to avoid everything which the School-Board was
established to teach P
There are School-Boards and School Bores, the latter having been
dragged from Vestry-Halls and obscure pulpits to administer a
system they neither understand nor appreciate. Having brought
Local Self-Government into contempt, and made the Gospel unpopu-
lar, they are now doing their best to strangle compulsory education.
They know nothing of life, of human nature, of the struggle for
bare existence in the homes of the multitude. They count the
crammed heads, and care nothing for the empty stomachs under-
neath them. The famished child may come and go as long as he can
aspirate his h’s. They are great at prosecutions, and unflinching in
the application of their bye-laws. They have no elasticity—no give
and take in their disposition ; and if they fail in exacting fines from
the poorest of the poor, it is due to the superior humanity of the
Stipendiary Magistrates. If Compulsory Education is to live and
move and do its work, it must first be applied to the minds and
hearts of its Directors.
THE MEMORIAL OBSTRUCTION.
(Discussed Thursday, October 7, in Court of Common Council.)
Says Mr. Bedford, “ Cost P Oh, I expect
Five thousand, say, or six, to be correct—
At least so states the City Architect.”
They call the City Architect, and then
Says he, “ This work of Art, 0 Council Men,
Cannot be done at all for less than ten.”
Some loudly cry, “ Rescind the Resolution! ”
More shout, “ No! that’s against our Constitution !
We sinned at first, we know ; to that we ’re pinned,
Never shall it be said that we re-sinned.”
Form of Telegram to tour Shoemaker.—Make me another pair
exactly like my last.