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Aphil 26, 1873.) PUNCH, OK THE LONDON C&ARIVARL
" I looked—and saw Young- Hyson— Church, or the Army, or the Navy, or the Law, or the Medical
I saw him * * * i Profession, but that he intends going into the Mine. Could he do
better ?
SHORTEN YOUR DINNERS.
Sympathising Mr. Punch,
That melancholy time of year is now full upon us when
overworked humanity is sentenced to its annual three months of
hard labour, in the way of driving", dressing, dining, dancing, and
generally doing all sorts of disappointing and health-destroying
things.
Now, you and I, and other fellow social sufferers, would not so
bitterly complain of the hardness of our lot, were our punishment
confined within the limits of the period assigned for its duration.
But, so lasting are the injuries it causes to our health, that, even
by the very carefullest of living, we are barely able to restore our
shattered nerves and battered constitutions, ere the time for the
recurrence of our suffering returns.
To you and me, and others whose dancing days are over, dinners
are undoubtedly the worst part of our punishment, and I rejoice to
see that efforts are bravely being made, in certaiu influential quar-
ters, to procure for us some respite of the labours that afflict us.
How sorely tbis is needed may be guessed from this sad groan from
one of your contemporaries, which rarely is constrained to murmur
at such matters :—
" It is only necessary to watch, the habits of what is termed ' society,' in
order to arrive at the conclusion that they are quite sufficient to account for
more than half the illnesses suffered by those who indulge in them. . . . To
say nothing of the late hour at which people dine, many of them having eaten
too much luncheon, or none at all, what an enormous variety of food they
swallow, or are expected to swallow, before they get up from the dinner table.
They could assuage their hunger and slake their thirsc comfortably in half an
hour, yet for an hour and a half or two hours they go on eating and drinking,
night after night, and at the end of the London season find themselves, as
they express it, ' thoroughly worn out with business.' "
On sanitary grounds, then, let us humbly pray Society—the Jug-
gernaut we worship—to spare us from the sacrifice which its fashion
of big dinners entails upon our health. Life is short, and banquets
of ten courses are decidedly too long to be undergone without im-
perilling one's strength. Abolish then your entrees, 0 my dinner-
giving friends, and let us have plain roast and boiled, like our
A contemporE_T £^V^£ coal- grandfathers of yore Good soup good fish, good meat with a
salad for a relish, and a morsel or good cheese, is all that man
A-ah ! I see !
0, spare me, fine Young Hyson—
Have —mercy—upon—me !
0, 0 ! not that cup of pizen!
Help! help! help! help!'"
" I see,
You 've got Delirium Tea-mens
From drinking too much tea."
owners also anE ^^7AvS^ riter 8alaa t0T a rellsn> ana a morsel or good cneese, is alt mat man
having'stated tl— vJl Y^S with' recluires when he sits at home to dine, and why need cooks give him
wins'to the wtE w lould more wnen he is tempted to dine out? A surfeit clogs his system,
ome across a diE— »*a««a_>«>_^^^_^^_ i lOe ana destroys his sleep; and when slowly and sadly he lays him
down to rest, depend on it he hears the hoofs of coming nightmares,
and thinks bitterly of the morrow, and his visit to the doctor.
That we may ere long have the sense to cast aside our Juggernaut,
and to prolong our lives by shortening our dinners, is the fervent
aspiration of yours piously,
The Hermitage, Mayfair. Podagra.
come across a g~
to 15s. a dav v—
— o
p 03
mme, wuere tu^-
nated by the DE t \
could be seen, E— \J ®
derided. He e= a:
necessary for hijrz- "TT
and dog-fightiiE oo >^
amusement, he = S>—
economy, above-
Economy in <E~ C 5
has not led hi— s o
about his looks,= >J ©
admonish him t— t \ r
opinion of their = >-/
income. Here::z-J?
a medical man, —
soever, are alwi=- /in
which Society e= £~ §j
costume, residi—— <d
inhabit a hovel = <5
— co
06
Z3
A. boy not boi^E ^
brought up in (=-S? f\
he intends to d<=: ^
c
a
0
E
= E
— o
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT.
Mr. Punch has not the presumption to pretend to understand this
advertisement, but it is far too lovely to be lost. The fair adver-
tiser proclaims the merits of her '' Governesses' Institute" in
Dublin. Something unwelcome seems to have happened, but that
is all over, and there is formed in the heaven's sight one arch of peace
and loveliness. Subjoined, be it explained, is a list of distinguished
patronesses:—
MISS O'BOROO is happy to announce that her Establishment—the
first of its name—is now, and will be in future, tiie only one in Ste-
phen's Green. So, should another strange cloud venture, even to the sur-
roundings of this, the "brightest prospect" of Dublin, the generous breaths
of the undersigned, like so many refreshing Zephyrs, will at once send it
back to its region, truly known by its smoke-like effusions.
Sense in " Le Follet."
" One thing should always be borne in mind, that the material and colour
that would constitute a robe simple for a married lady, is perfectly admissible
as a toilet pare'e for a young unmarried girl. Tbis is a fact seldom lost sight
of by our fashionable modistes, who know that it is the cut and fagon of a
toilette that constitutes its real elegance, and not the amount of money spent
on it."
Paterfamilias, who has copied this extract from the Fashions for
each of his four young unmarried daughters, is delighted to find
that the Paris modistes hold such sensible opinions, and earnestly
hopes the London dressmakers may imitate them, and come to the
same economical conclusion.
" I looked—and saw Young- Hyson— Church, or the Army, or the Navy, or the Law, or the Medical
I saw him * * * i Profession, but that he intends going into the Mine. Could he do
better ?
SHORTEN YOUR DINNERS.
Sympathising Mr. Punch,
That melancholy time of year is now full upon us when
overworked humanity is sentenced to its annual three months of
hard labour, in the way of driving", dressing, dining, dancing, and
generally doing all sorts of disappointing and health-destroying
things.
Now, you and I, and other fellow social sufferers, would not so
bitterly complain of the hardness of our lot, were our punishment
confined within the limits of the period assigned for its duration.
But, so lasting are the injuries it causes to our health, that, even
by the very carefullest of living, we are barely able to restore our
shattered nerves and battered constitutions, ere the time for the
recurrence of our suffering returns.
To you and me, and others whose dancing days are over, dinners
are undoubtedly the worst part of our punishment, and I rejoice to
see that efforts are bravely being made, in certaiu influential quar-
ters, to procure for us some respite of the labours that afflict us.
How sorely tbis is needed may be guessed from this sad groan from
one of your contemporaries, which rarely is constrained to murmur
at such matters :—
" It is only necessary to watch, the habits of what is termed ' society,' in
order to arrive at the conclusion that they are quite sufficient to account for
more than half the illnesses suffered by those who indulge in them. . . . To
say nothing of the late hour at which people dine, many of them having eaten
too much luncheon, or none at all, what an enormous variety of food they
swallow, or are expected to swallow, before they get up from the dinner table.
They could assuage their hunger and slake their thirsc comfortably in half an
hour, yet for an hour and a half or two hours they go on eating and drinking,
night after night, and at the end of the London season find themselves, as
they express it, ' thoroughly worn out with business.' "
On sanitary grounds, then, let us humbly pray Society—the Jug-
gernaut we worship—to spare us from the sacrifice which its fashion
of big dinners entails upon our health. Life is short, and banquets
of ten courses are decidedly too long to be undergone without im-
perilling one's strength. Abolish then your entrees, 0 my dinner-
giving friends, and let us have plain roast and boiled, like our
A contemporE_T £^V^£ coal- grandfathers of yore Good soup good fish, good meat with a
salad for a relish, and a morsel or good cheese, is all that man
A-ah ! I see !
0, spare me, fine Young Hyson—
Have —mercy—upon—me !
0, 0 ! not that cup of pizen!
Help! help! help! help!'"
" I see,
You 've got Delirium Tea-mens
From drinking too much tea."
owners also anE ^^7AvS^ riter 8alaa t0T a rellsn> ana a morsel or good cneese, is alt mat man
having'stated tl— vJl Y^S with' recluires when he sits at home to dine, and why need cooks give him
wins'to the wtE w lould more wnen he is tempted to dine out? A surfeit clogs his system,
ome across a diE— »*a««a_>«>_^^^_^^_ i lOe ana destroys his sleep; and when slowly and sadly he lays him
down to rest, depend on it he hears the hoofs of coming nightmares,
and thinks bitterly of the morrow, and his visit to the doctor.
That we may ere long have the sense to cast aside our Juggernaut,
and to prolong our lives by shortening our dinners, is the fervent
aspiration of yours piously,
The Hermitage, Mayfair. Podagra.
come across a g~
to 15s. a dav v—
— o
p 03
mme, wuere tu^-
nated by the DE t \
could be seen, E— \J ®
derided. He e= a:
necessary for hijrz- "TT
and dog-fightiiE oo >^
amusement, he = S>—
economy, above-
Economy in <E~ C 5
has not led hi— s o
about his looks,= >J ©
admonish him t— t \ r
opinion of their = >-/
income. Here::z-J?
a medical man, —
soever, are alwi=- /in
which Society e= £~ §j
costume, residi—— <d
inhabit a hovel = <5
— co
06
Z3
A. boy not boi^E ^
brought up in (=-S? f\
he intends to d<=: ^
c
a
0
E
= E
— o
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT.
Mr. Punch has not the presumption to pretend to understand this
advertisement, but it is far too lovely to be lost. The fair adver-
tiser proclaims the merits of her '' Governesses' Institute" in
Dublin. Something unwelcome seems to have happened, but that
is all over, and there is formed in the heaven's sight one arch of peace
and loveliness. Subjoined, be it explained, is a list of distinguished
patronesses:—
MISS O'BOROO is happy to announce that her Establishment—the
first of its name—is now, and will be in future, tiie only one in Ste-
phen's Green. So, should another strange cloud venture, even to the sur-
roundings of this, the "brightest prospect" of Dublin, the generous breaths
of the undersigned, like so many refreshing Zephyrs, will at once send it
back to its region, truly known by its smoke-like effusions.
Sense in " Le Follet."
" One thing should always be borne in mind, that the material and colour
that would constitute a robe simple for a married lady, is perfectly admissible
as a toilet pare'e for a young unmarried girl. Tbis is a fact seldom lost sight
of by our fashionable modistes, who know that it is the cut and fagon of a
toilette that constitutes its real elegance, and not the amount of money spent
on it."
Paterfamilias, who has copied this extract from the Fashions for
each of his four young unmarried daughters, is delighted to find
that the Paris modistes hold such sensible opinions, and earnestly
hopes the London dressmakers may imitate them, and come to the
same economical conclusion.