Punch (96.1889)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [January 5, 1889.

GOOD RESOLUTIONS FOR 1889.

Mr. Punch (to John Bull.) “ Now, John, Your. First Mem—An Efficient Navy."

What ! opening yonr new Diary, dear Bull?

Well, at this special season “we all do it.”
Strange things may happen ere that book is full!

One “ resolution ” make, or you will rue it.
Hems : many will, no doubt, fill the first page ;
Things to be done, avoided, altered, mended ;

But whatsoe’er to settle you engage,

Whatever ’s to be saved or be expended,

Take Mr. Punch's most particular “tip,”—■

That ’tis a wise one you may take your davy—

The first resolve, never to he let slip,

Should be this “ MemGet an Efeicient Navy !!! ”

“ Hashin.” ■—-Instead of going to the Handoub district, our
cavalry have gone on an aimless skirmish in the direction of
Hashin, a name of ill omen, for we ’re always hashin’ our Egyptian
business.

Who Said It ?—I don’t know, but it is worth recording here. My

authority was Edmundus Ed. Mundi. An old stager, laudator tem-
poris Macreadi, remarked that Henry Irving did not possess the
physique necessary for the part of Macbeth. ‘ ‘ He has Shakspeare’s
authority for doing without it,” was Somebody’s reply; “for doesn’t
he make Macbeth himself exclaim, ‘ Throw physique to the dogs, I ’ll
none of it! ’ ” Lovely! says Jack out oe the Box.