DOI issue:
August 6, 1892
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17694#0055
August 6, 1892.]
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARTVART.
49
DRURIOLANUS IN (MUSIC) AULIS. * ^if^frZ^tht'audience
The Augustan Aare is to be re- <-wr /^O K^ANUWk'f §k ""^^ «jl ^A^Wx:'i turned away will be accommodated
vived at the new Palace Theatre aV^ J//\W Xs ^? **wg-K £n\JzL*T? V\ with seats in the Dtlke of York's
of Varieties, late CakTe's English vm^iM \ W/*\ ^tff V®\ d^*0m\ ''wfcmL' WC C.olumn. He is said to be in nego-
Opera House, for two of the im- "j?,-^*? cawi»* A ^Jf- ' %V $^f*M'W*W 'a ' ;:H Nation for novelties for next years
perial name of Attgtjstus are fore- ^1 v, i |fc -^V JMI $ / t-A Cw 1 London Season in various parts of
most amonsr the Directors of this ft WM jSF- \ %, • A C F£ \ the R1()be- It is possible that he
new enterprise—which word "enter- %}\\\ /J ;^L^® t V .•.■/A '1 -V N \ may bring over the entire " World's
prise" is preferable to "undertak- H (fcS J 1 3SW # CfE^W \M ' Show" from Chicago, to give a
ing." Sir Augustus leads, and W\ W^-Wft >^>^pt^-^^ ^rW^.^j A solitary performance on an eligible
Georgius Augustus follows in the ^Tu^^^'f^^^l T^^^fe A fK l # ; / ^ spot recently acquired for this pur-
cast as Second Director—with or vwt^T^ / % i rfl^C- :-'W> 4 " Pose the neighbourhood of Prim-
without song is not mentioned, ^ W/?f ' „ ( lv:^#/ V^"''> rose HiU- It is not unlikely that he
In comparison with this transfor- r€*rV . , V<: W JBB^;'*ShK^ ^^SH^'S'An majr re-erect the ancient Pyramids
mation of an Opera House into a , Bll,^__^^#'\\ at the back of Olympia, if satis-
Theatre of Varieties, no political M,>.Ci.„ '•^•v^: IfMIIllk H ..m-iU *T* K^M^s^X factory arrangements can be made
combination of anv sort or kind, no fv"% | HHilk ^"^^>y 7$S&ff I With the Egyptian Government
change either in the Ministry or in (. ,. >' , , liHKIIlk ••' V X Y ' Looking to the future it is asserted
our home or foreign policy, is so like- JL* j t|k/r" % HHii -Mk) ^ t\ ^ Jat he ^as undertaken to accept
lv to cause trouble to The Empire ; \m • ^JBIHUK''''' -the stage-direction of the next
i.e.. the Empire in Leicester Square. KJI^MAMHWr: ^ JfcT- \\ . European War with those nations
We understand that Sir Augus- W j»> VJgvv | fether mr,the,1 reat>T (,f the
tits Druriolanus, in addition to ffehfeVj fr/OT^T^^Ml'..!^*^ . W|?fm Triple Alliance. Further-Drurio-
his interest in Covent Garden, CoE^h' jfW ^■■Bifi^fe^ ^^1^ lan us Maximus is considering the
Drury Lane, the Royal English VfWf^H^^MMf''c^^Mv'l tra,nTrt- toJt°»do? XH, N?rth
Opera House, and various enter- ^ ^.^V //^J^MMMMMMS^^^l v Polp, laying the Zoological Gardens
prises in town, country, and a^zTTv/l«/5 jPP^BMBfc contribution for a service of
abroad, is about to turn his atten- WMWrj^^M ,\\ bears to climb it. Sir Drurto-
tion to other matters. On dtt that ^vlf^ ^¥^M^ lanUS mustn't overdo it He holds
be is in treaty for St. Paul's Fwl "1 a handful of cards but he is so good
Cathedral, Westminster ' Abbey, \// \>^J^W — A\ " * prestidigitateur that he is pretty
and the City Temple, for a series ^ «» %C ? sure to transf<»rm them into trumps.
of Sunday Oratorios. It is also ■ Likewise Sir Drurio knows how to
not improbable that he may be- § ^Ik*, MM perform on the I rump of lame,
eome, for a short time, Lessee of
Exeter Hall. Buckingham Palace, ' —^ "*<;":::-;i^o "^^^^^ Toast—We beg to propose the
and the Banqueting - hall of ~ - "^1 health of the liberal-minded pur-
Hampton Court, for a series of chaser of the Althorp Library, who
Popular Picture-Shows. No doubt ' AFTER THE OP'RA IS OVER." intends to keep the books in a build-
he will bring from Russia a new „. . ri , ,i , ing open to all readers, adapting the
and entire Cosmopolitan Opera Sir Augustus Coventgardenensis, the Smging-Bird Showman, bows his toastmaster'sphraseforthe occasion,
Company, to give a performance on Acknowledgments. and giving) Qur Noble Shelves !,s
LAYS OF MODEEN HOME.
No. 4.—CHLOE'S APPROPRIATION CLAWS.
All ye who bless the wedded state
With tributes born of generous blindness,
Bemourn the fate that well may wait
Your gifted kindness.
My Chloe's ultra-modern mind
Transforms your Dresden's grace and
Chelsea's,
The toys for special use designed,
To something else's.
Eor CrrxoE reads each weekly print.
Where Art's resource is blent with Scandal's,
Where decorative females hint
Their cure for Vandals.
Your large, expensive Wedgwood bowls,
She bids her " Lor ! "-exclaiming waitress
To cram with large, expensive coals,
The pretty traitress!
On daintiest overmantel's ledge
She sets enshrined your prosy platter ;
Your salt-cellars she stocks with veg-
etable matter.
And when the Summer comes (if hail
For once not hails the sunny swallows)
Our fenders hold your statues pale
Of chipped Apollos.
With out-of-fashion toilet sets,
Their sprigs of ringstands, bits of boxes,
She picturesques her cabinet's
Quaint heterodoxies.
My blue tobacco-jar she '11 hoard
For party-nights, and on the basket
Whereon my manuscripts are stored
Will throne—a casket!
Ingenious " Chloe, sure, opines
Is Genius' proper derivation;
Appropriate " with her defines
Appropriation.
Poor Strephon, fond, bewildered wight!
He doubts, amazed by changes showy,
If Chloe's own be Strephon quite,
Or Strephon's, Chloe !
BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
[" He (Mr. Gladstone) has not as yet even
secured the spoil, but the Vultures aro already
gathered together." — Mi: Chamberlain at Bir-
mingham.']
The Vultures, dear Joe ? Nay, it needs no
apology
To sav you are out in your new ornithology.
The Vultures are carrion-birds, be it said;
And the Man and the Cause you detest are not
dead!
Much as his decease was desired, he 's alive,
And the Cause is no carcase. So, Joe, you
must strive [All fowls
To get nearer the truth. Shall we help you ?
Are not Vultures. For instance, dear Joe,
there are Owls, [croaking,
(Like Jesse) and Ravens much given to
(In Ulster they 're noisy, though some think
they 're joking),
Then Parrots are plentiful everywhere, Joe,
(They keep on repeating yom- chatter, you
know,
As they did in the days when you railed about
ransom; [handsome);
But Parrots are never wise birds, Joe, though
Then Geese, Jays, and Daws; yet they're
birds of a feather,
And they, my dear Joseph, are gathered
together, [foil,
To hiss, squeal and peck at the Party they'd
But who 're like to secure—as you phrase it—
"the spoil."
Yes, these be the birds most en evidence now;
A nd by Jingo, my Joe, they are raising a row.
They 're full of cacophonous fuss, and loud
spite ; ... [they might.
And they don't take their licking as well as
In fact, they 're a rather contemptible crew;
And—well, of which species, dear Joseph,
are you f
vol. cm.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARTVART.
49
DRURIOLANUS IN (MUSIC) AULIS. * ^if^frZ^tht'audience
The Augustan Aare is to be re- <-wr /^O K^ANUWk'f §k ""^^ «jl ^A^Wx:'i turned away will be accommodated
vived at the new Palace Theatre aV^ J//\W Xs ^? **wg-K £n\JzL*T? V\ with seats in the Dtlke of York's
of Varieties, late CakTe's English vm^iM \ W/*\ ^tff V®\ d^*0m\ ''wfcmL' WC C.olumn. He is said to be in nego-
Opera House, for two of the im- "j?,-^*? cawi»* A ^Jf- ' %V $^f*M'W*W 'a ' ;:H Nation for novelties for next years
perial name of Attgtjstus are fore- ^1 v, i |fc -^V JMI $ / t-A Cw 1 London Season in various parts of
most amonsr the Directors of this ft WM jSF- \ %, • A C F£ \ the R1()be- It is possible that he
new enterprise—which word "enter- %}\\\ /J ;^L^® t V .•.■/A '1 -V N \ may bring over the entire " World's
prise" is preferable to "undertak- H (fcS J 1 3SW # CfE^W \M ' Show" from Chicago, to give a
ing." Sir Augustus leads, and W\ W^-Wft >^>^pt^-^^ ^rW^.^j A solitary performance on an eligible
Georgius Augustus follows in the ^Tu^^^'f^^^l T^^^fe A fK l # ; / ^ spot recently acquired for this pur-
cast as Second Director—with or vwt^T^ / % i rfl^C- :-'W> 4 " Pose the neighbourhood of Prim-
without song is not mentioned, ^ W/?f ' „ ( lv:^#/ V^"''> rose HiU- It is not unlikely that he
In comparison with this transfor- r€*rV . , V<: W JBB^;'*ShK^ ^^SH^'S'An majr re-erect the ancient Pyramids
mation of an Opera House into a , Bll,^__^^#'\\ at the back of Olympia, if satis-
Theatre of Varieties, no political M,>.Ci.„ '•^•v^: IfMIIllk H ..m-iU *T* K^M^s^X factory arrangements can be made
combination of anv sort or kind, no fv"% | HHilk ^"^^>y 7$S&ff I With the Egyptian Government
change either in the Ministry or in (. ,. >' , , liHKIIlk ••' V X Y ' Looking to the future it is asserted
our home or foreign policy, is so like- JL* j t|k/r" % HHii -Mk) ^ t\ ^ Jat he ^as undertaken to accept
lv to cause trouble to The Empire ; \m • ^JBIHUK''''' -the stage-direction of the next
i.e.. the Empire in Leicester Square. KJI^MAMHWr: ^ JfcT- \\ . European War with those nations
We understand that Sir Augus- W j»> VJgvv | fether mr,the,1 reat>T (,f the
tits Druriolanus, in addition to ffehfeVj fr/OT^T^^Ml'..!^*^ . W|?fm Triple Alliance. Further-Drurio-
his interest in Covent Garden, CoE^h' jfW ^■■Bifi^fe^ ^^1^ lan us Maximus is considering the
Drury Lane, the Royal English VfWf^H^^MMf''c^^Mv'l tra,nTrt- toJt°»do? XH, N?rth
Opera House, and various enter- ^ ^.^V //^J^MMMMMMS^^^l v Polp, laying the Zoological Gardens
prises in town, country, and a^zTTv/l«/5 jPP^BMBfc contribution for a service of
abroad, is about to turn his atten- WMWrj^^M ,\\ bears to climb it. Sir Drurto-
tion to other matters. On dtt that ^vlf^ ^¥^M^ lanUS mustn't overdo it He holds
be is in treaty for St. Paul's Fwl "1 a handful of cards but he is so good
Cathedral, Westminster ' Abbey, \// \>^J^W — A\ " * prestidigitateur that he is pretty
and the City Temple, for a series ^ «» %C ? sure to transf<»rm them into trumps.
of Sunday Oratorios. It is also ■ Likewise Sir Drurio knows how to
not improbable that he may be- § ^Ik*, MM perform on the I rump of lame,
eome, for a short time, Lessee of
Exeter Hall. Buckingham Palace, ' —^ "*<;":::-;i^o "^^^^^ Toast—We beg to propose the
and the Banqueting - hall of ~ - "^1 health of the liberal-minded pur-
Hampton Court, for a series of chaser of the Althorp Library, who
Popular Picture-Shows. No doubt ' AFTER THE OP'RA IS OVER." intends to keep the books in a build-
he will bring from Russia a new „. . ri , ,i , ing open to all readers, adapting the
and entire Cosmopolitan Opera Sir Augustus Coventgardenensis, the Smging-Bird Showman, bows his toastmaster'sphraseforthe occasion,
Company, to give a performance on Acknowledgments. and giving) Qur Noble Shelves !,s
LAYS OF MODEEN HOME.
No. 4.—CHLOE'S APPROPRIATION CLAWS.
All ye who bless the wedded state
With tributes born of generous blindness,
Bemourn the fate that well may wait
Your gifted kindness.
My Chloe's ultra-modern mind
Transforms your Dresden's grace and
Chelsea's,
The toys for special use designed,
To something else's.
Eor CrrxoE reads each weekly print.
Where Art's resource is blent with Scandal's,
Where decorative females hint
Their cure for Vandals.
Your large, expensive Wedgwood bowls,
She bids her " Lor ! "-exclaiming waitress
To cram with large, expensive coals,
The pretty traitress!
On daintiest overmantel's ledge
She sets enshrined your prosy platter ;
Your salt-cellars she stocks with veg-
etable matter.
And when the Summer comes (if hail
For once not hails the sunny swallows)
Our fenders hold your statues pale
Of chipped Apollos.
With out-of-fashion toilet sets,
Their sprigs of ringstands, bits of boxes,
She picturesques her cabinet's
Quaint heterodoxies.
My blue tobacco-jar she '11 hoard
For party-nights, and on the basket
Whereon my manuscripts are stored
Will throne—a casket!
Ingenious " Chloe, sure, opines
Is Genius' proper derivation;
Appropriate " with her defines
Appropriation.
Poor Strephon, fond, bewildered wight!
He doubts, amazed by changes showy,
If Chloe's own be Strephon quite,
Or Strephon's, Chloe !
BIRDS OF A FEATHER.
[" He (Mr. Gladstone) has not as yet even
secured the spoil, but the Vultures aro already
gathered together." — Mi: Chamberlain at Bir-
mingham.']
The Vultures, dear Joe ? Nay, it needs no
apology
To sav you are out in your new ornithology.
The Vultures are carrion-birds, be it said;
And the Man and the Cause you detest are not
dead!
Much as his decease was desired, he 's alive,
And the Cause is no carcase. So, Joe, you
must strive [All fowls
To get nearer the truth. Shall we help you ?
Are not Vultures. For instance, dear Joe,
there are Owls, [croaking,
(Like Jesse) and Ravens much given to
(In Ulster they 're noisy, though some think
they 're joking),
Then Parrots are plentiful everywhere, Joe,
(They keep on repeating yom- chatter, you
know,
As they did in the days when you railed about
ransom; [handsome);
But Parrots are never wise birds, Joe, though
Then Geese, Jays, and Daws; yet they're
birds of a feather,
And they, my dear Joseph, are gathered
together, [foil,
To hiss, squeal and peck at the Party they'd
But who 're like to secure—as you phrase it—
"the spoil."
Yes, these be the birds most en evidence now;
A nd by Jingo, my Joe, they are raising a row.
They 're full of cacophonous fuss, and loud
spite ; ... [they might.
And they don't take their licking as well as
In fact, they 're a rather contemptible crew;
And—well, of which species, dear Joseph,
are you f
vol. cm.