Punch 1891-01-31: Vol 100 Iss 2586

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Jaxvary 31, 1891.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI 49

VOCES POPULI. A ROW IN THE PIT; OR, THE OBSTRUCTIVE HAT, Scene—The Pit during Pantomime Time. The Overture is beginning An Over-heated Matron (to her Husband). Well, they don’t give you much room in ’ere, I must say. Still, we done better than | expected, after all that ‘crushing. ‘thought my ribs was gone once —but it was on’y the umbrella’s. ; You comfortable where you are, eh, Father ? M Father, Oh, I ’mrightenough, | T; Tam. Jimmy (their Son ; a small boy, with a piping voice). If Father is, it’ s more nor tZIam. I can’t see, Mother, I can’t! His Mother. Lor’ bless the 1 there ain’t nothen to see "ll see well enough | t Curting goes up. (Cur- » tain rises on ). round ad Jrumy, ain’t nice, now? All them himps dancin’ round, real fire comin’ out of the pot—which I ’ope it’s quite ssfe—and there’s a beautiful fairy just come on, dr 80 g too ! Jimmy. I can’t see no fairy—nor yet no himps—no nothen! pare . [ He whimpers. His (annoy ever such a take enywtgeeat "Bet qatt do don’t and lok, erating ‘oy Jimmy, I ia lady in Mother. It ain’t my ae this yin front om a re m ith thea the’ ants) boy ag vean't see where he is _ connae a Well, Z can’t Yelp the ’at, oan 1? it, that’s all! "Mother. No—but I thoug’ ou wouldn't mind changing places taller than i 0 tt wouldn’t be in your way rior sl life, I am. » Wether, L. pow s hat in f nt must =e up with ’arf so muc Father. It’s alwepe Bee the wa: Well, pass the ovate) Wan Will my “Fath a hat, hich he TEN edge for Father’ 1 oeteant “) —— the at! apa iegion lady sodldwrt on veal off ir poy ot hor? ' y wou t i you Father. At’! (He touches The << the Hat on Excuse me, Mum, but met ‘§ tae the li of ae remove your ‘at ? wher of the Hat : Father (more pa ou ’ave any o' me by taking off your ’at, Fn gg loans result.) I don’t know you ’eard me, Mum, but I’ve asked twice, civil that ’at of yours off. I’m a playin’ ’Ide and Seek be’ind it ‘ere! No answer. The Mother. People didn’t ought to be allowed in the Pit with sech ’ats! Callin’ ’erself a lady—and settin’ there in a great ‘at and tented hives a "Ighlander’s, and never mo more nor a a Father “ite Husband of The Owner of the Hat). Will you tell a Looe to take her ’at off, a, please ? aS Oona of the Hat (to her Husband). Don’t you do nothing of the sort, Sam, or you'll ’ear of it! The Mother, Some people are perlite, I must say. Parties might beyare as ladies when they ome in fa the Pit! It’s a pity her ’usband can’t teach her manners The Father. ’ Im teach het "E knows better. Ot he and Owner o Go Hat. Sam, are you going to set b hear me insulted like this f 2 . pt. poten feesaiag round tremulously). I—I’ll trouble you to vee OT, A ’at, Sir. oe onthehiy impossible to listen to what’s going on on the stage, wi all these remarks be’ind ! The Father. Not more nor it is to see what’s going on on the stage with that 'at in front! I paid ’arf-a-crown to see the Panter- mime, I did; not to ave a view of your wife’s at! ... ’Ere, Mant, blowed if I can stand this ’ere any Jnaxy must change places again, and if he can't sh, be sues ctand up en tho seat, that’ sall! (Jimmy is trans erred to his original place, and mounts upon the seat. Jmomr’s Father with an A Pittite be Jimmy (touching umloelia). Will you tell your down, glean, and not block the view like this? Ty, 7 eotiefied, yew ain’t! Changing | with a smile that oe, ’E’s got a Tartar i

Jii that lady in front to take off her ’at, Fad BR Saal na naan Jimmy. The Piite bind, Well 1 m a a that all = rises, yo behind him (sternly). Set down there, will Jimmy. Father, the ae mh aes boy’s tr ne ‘ Put that boy down ! 4 ie Turn’em out! Shame! ina —or to his Wife). Take standing allowed on the seats—you're dis- ‘an ys ‘ou know! weeps silently ; the hubbub Owner of the Hat triumphe— ; sball have Moth ae the er’ s moment. Jaste Mother. Never lady ’as reasons regi TS I dessay, if for keeping her ‘at ey Boe The Father. never thought o’ that. So she may. Very Minely bas at i ti b without her ’air The Mother. well, we mnan't be "ard ca her, if that’s so. the obstruction). L’ope you’re satisfied never, Mum, and we t ha’ done it at fust, the ’at than wha t you ’ . (mollified), Sam, ask the gentleman behind if his ld like a ginger-nut. [ This olive-branch is accepted ; compliments peso cordiality is he Pantomime proceeds without further

SOMETHING LIKE A SUBSCRIPTION! (A Page from the Book of Philanthropy.) Tue Committee waited impatiently the arrival of the Great and Good Man. It was their duty to obtain a donation—an ample one — from the Millionnaire whose charity was renowned far and wide, peg y ape a ph other. ‘weet for ?” he asked, abeolately shone with ** Name it!” cried the Deputation i in a breath. ‘* The simplest thing in the world,” continued the Millionnaire. “ I will give you five thousand bogs on the condition that you get ninety-nine other fellows to do the same. Nay, youshall thank m when all is collected. I can wait till then.” The chavo words were spoken more than thirty years ng Bince then the tation have been waiting for the other fellows—and so has the Millionnaire !

Professor v. Professor. Prorgeson Vracnow seems by no means Koch-sure about the tuberculosis remedy. Indeed Professor Kocn finds that there is not only ‘‘ much virtue in an ‘if,’” but much “* if” ina Vincnow! He is inclined to sing with SwInBURNE :-— “ Come down, and redeem us from Vrncnow.”

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[January 31, 1891. THE FRIEND OF IRELAND AND THE WORDY KNIFE-GRINDER. (Imitation Sapphics some way after Canning and Frere.) — " 4 Z 3 Me a ‘i Wordy Knife-Grinder, ** Stony! Gop BLEss you! I BAVE NONE TO TELL, Sin!” Friend of Ireland :— ** Tell me, Knife-Grinder, what your little game is, **Worpy Knife-Grinder! Whither are you going ? Do you mean playing straight with me and Dark is your “= —your wheel looks out of order others ? ers Mitchelstown , and there seems no more spell in Or would you jocky Erin like a confounded O’ Buien’s breeches! Saxon attorney ? ** Wordy Kaife-Grinder, little think the proud ones, ** Give us a glimpse of that same Memorandum ! Who in their speeches prate about their U sion- Pledge yourself to what needs no explaining! lem, what hard work ’tis to keep a Party Prove that your plan is not quite a sham, sly-whittled Tightly together ' Down into nullity !

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January 31, 1891.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARLI. “ Ere I depart (if go I must, Tm Heaty) Give me a pledge that I’m not sold sold for nothing. Tell us in plain round wads « without evasion, the Hawarden story.” Knife- wows “Story! God bless yer! I have none to tell, Sir! ever tell stories, 1; ’tis my sole b usiness This Wheel to turn with treadle and ery, * Knives and Scissors to grind O ! ‘* Constabulary ? Question of Land Purchase ? Number of Irish Members due in justice ? Never said aught about ’em; don’t intend to— Not for the present. “*T shall be glad to do what honour urgeth ; Grind on alone, if you will give me carte-blanche, Make room for Justin, and forbear to meddle With politics, Sir!” Friend of Ireland, ** T give thee carte-blanche ? I will see thee blowed first— Fraud! whom no frank ng can —~ to frankness — Sophist, evasive, garrulous, word-web- — Subtle Old Soles Tr [Kicks the Knife-Grinder, overturns his Wheel, and exit in a Sury of patriotic enthusiasm and Sorcible language. CAPITAL AND™LABOUR FORECAST; Or, Six of One and Half-a-Dozen of te O:her. THovea . some quarters a better feeling was reported to have till, according to latest neu Oo the —— can scarcely regarded r satisfactory. A meeting o En- gineering Tram-Drivers’ Mutual Stand- Si alder-to Shonlder Stran- gulation Society was held on Glasgow Green La anaes afternoon, at which, amid a good deal of boisterous interruption, several delegates addressed the assembled audience and naeetel their recent ex- ‘aoe np up to date. There were still 1700 of the Company’s old ands out m find 9 and though, thanks to the th: ‘their just cause” had excited amidst the e Societies in the South, by which, owing to subscriptions from no less important — than the Bootmak Benevolent Grand Association Superannuated Undertakers’ Orphan Society, they had been able to to stay out and defy the Company, wf all the o while, a wena man of them, a stipend of 3s. 9d. mabe - Sax Set almost come to the end of resources, and all that they in hand towards next week’s fund for distribution, was £1 13s. 7hd., received in coppers from the pn ale oe = 9 of the Metropolitan Boys’ Boot- blacking Bread, accom panied with an intimation that that help must be regarded psy ey oa quarter. Under these circumstances it became a question whether it was not almost time to consider some terms of compromise. In the above ponte one of the speakers addressed the opting, but he was speedily f by another, who insisted that, ‘ what might,” they would stick to their latest terms, which Pinay a three-hours’ day— (loud cheers)—and time-and-three-quarters for md wt expected after three o’clock in the afternoon. Prolonged ¢. —_ Delsy egate here rose, and said it was all very well their ae es could they get it? (A Voice, * We'll ao: ”) For his part, the perl e had had ‘enough of trying. With wife and at home, he had only one course open to him, and that meta = | to the Company Fr wpa ey ol day, if they would have him. (Groans, amid which the Speaker had his hat knocked over his eyes, and was kicked out of the assembly.) The m was then continued, much in the same vein, and eventually culminated in - pos ht, in which the Chairman got his head broken, on d otion further limiting the work- ing day to two hours a half, was lost by a narrow Yesterda ejoury and al walt by 9 Anti-Labour Labou. Protection were put, pro formd, and nd pase, & and, amid a general manifestation of gloomy satisfaction, the meeting was further adj ““A Salvage Man.” Ropyarp Krpcire has hit on a picturesque plan ; He describes in athe savage in Man.” Whilst amongst the conventions he raids and he ravages. We'd like just a leetle more “‘ Man” in his savages. IN SELF-DEFENCE. Jones (who has just told his best Story, and been rewarded with a gentle smile), ‘‘Uron M¥ worD, WOMEN HAVEN'T GOT THE REAL SENSE OF Homovurn! Way, waen I! HARD THAT STORY FOR THE FIRST TIME, ONLY LAST Week, I SIMPLY ROARED !” Miss Smith. ‘So pip I—onty it was Last Year!” FROM OUR MUSICAL BOX, WE sent our Musical Box (Cox being unable to accompany him on the piano or any instrument, by reason of the severe weather) to hear SravenHacEn at St. James's "Hall, Thursday last, the 22nd. Our Musical B. was nearly turned out of the hall, he was in such ecstasies of delight over a Beethovenly i—e which “bangs Banagher,” he said, subsequently translating the expression by explaining, ‘that is, beats Beernoven.” Our M. B. wept over a enza omqant by the perience, 6 and was only restored by the firat—of SrA VENHAGEN, who gave some- body’ ’s grand scena far better, probably, than that somebody could have given it himself, set as it was to fine descriptive music age clever STAVENHAGEN, which hted all especially who were Liszt-eners. er,”’ writes our Musical Aart 76 very big success. Music is thirsty work. I am now about to a symphony in B. and 8.” VICE VERSA, A Port in the Forum asks the question, **Is Verse in Danger?” ’Tis a wild pappeetien | Is Verse in Danger? Nay, that ‘s not curse ; Danger (of utter boredom) te in V. in Verse! “Opp Maw Ovr.”—On Saturday last, the last among the theatri- cal advertisements in the Daily Telegraph was the mysterious one, **Me. Cuarntes Svepen at Liserry,” and then followed his address. *‘ At Liberty!” What does it mean? Has he been—it isa little difficult to choose the right word, but let us say immured—has he been immured in some cell '—for it does sound like a “* sell” of another has he at last effected a escape? No doubt —— our friend, will be able to offer the public a satis- —— when he re-appears on the Stage which ers is a ce.

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52 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARL [January 31, 1891. PLAYING OLD GOOSEBERRY AT THE HAYMARKET; Or, The Dook, the Dancing Girl, and the Little Lame Duck. Waar is to be admired in Exery Havrnor Jones is not so much his work but his plack,—for has he not, in the first place, overcome the dery of the Lord Chamberlain’s Li Department, and, in the cosend lace, has he not introduced on the bounds of the Hay- ket a good old-f Melodram t ** up to date,” and disgeised in ? Walk tn, Lndics end Gentlemen, disguised in a Comedy and see The Dancing Girl, a Comedy-Drama frais, nis the“ eeted Benunet, "how ahabeel: under th juke,—uce the “wi ” now as e ducal rank will suit us nowadays, iv tyin Provinatsl family, an honest bumpkin lover, a of a dancing woman who lives a double-shuffling eta, _ smaaeen a on of course, can’t cut capers goes in for —a » - cipled, and caleula kind (of aol she is to, but a audience that loves Melodrama motive,—a town swell in the country more or land-agent, and . honest “hea type, with a good old-f at the right moment, the pontine Me which eyes of elderly'playgoer on hearing the old familiar formula, in the old familiar situation, reproduced on the of the modern Haymarket as if through the medium of ———_ " : At all events, Drusilla Ives, alias ‘‘ the Dancing Girl” —though as to Pinat Tapiezav, Act L “O does not a Meeting (House) like this make amends? ” Ham Christison (Clown), “ Ullo! Oh my! I’m a looking at yer!” where she dances, how she dances, and when she dances, we are left pretty well in the dark, as she only gives so slight a taste of her ish i quality that it seemed like a very imitation of Miss Kate AU@HAN in her best day,— Drusilla Ives is the mistress, neither pure nor simple, of the Duke of Guisebury,—a title which is evidently artfully intended by ‘the, at present, “ Only Jones” to be a com- ound of o a ae “ _ . English ** 4 from is way of going on playing berry with his property, might have been thus styled with : and so henceforth let us think and speak of him as His Grace or His Disgrace the Duke | ca of Gooseberry. This Duke of Gooseberry visits, ‘‘ quite unbeknown,”— being, for this occasion only, the Dake of Disguisebury,—his own property the Island of St. Endellion, just to see, we su , what sort of pore the Quaker family may be from which his mistress, the Jancing Quakeress (and how funny she used to be at the Music Halls and at the Gaiety !), has sprang. For some reason or other, the Dancing Quakeress has gone to stay a few weeks with her family in the country, and while this hypocritical Daughter of Hexopias is} i with her Quaker belongings at prayers in the Meeting House, the spirit moveth her to come out, and to come out uncommonly strong, as, within a yard or so of the building, she laughs and talks loudly with Gooseberry, and then in a light-hearted way she treats the Dook to some amateur imitations fies tone, finishing up with areminiscence of Kare Vavenan; all of which al freseo entertainment is given for the benefit of the afore- said Gooseberry within sound of the sermon and within —— the Meeting House windows. Suddenly her rustic Quaker » a kind of Ham Peggotty, lounges out of the Conventicle, which, | i as these persons seem to leave and enter just when it suits them, ought rather to be called a (Be we F he § like the clown that he is, says in effect, ‘‘ I’m a-looking at yer! I’ve caught yer at it!” Dismay of Dook and Dancer!! then Curtain on a most emphatically effective situation. The Second Act is far away the best of the lot, damaged, however, by vain repetitions of words and actions. To the house where Miss / / Two “ Regular Dawgs” having a t/le-d-té(e. Dancing Girl is openly living under the protection of Gooseberry, the Duke's worthy Steward actually brings his virtuous and ingenuous oung daughter! If ever there were a pair of artful, contriving, cheat “humbugs, it is this worthy cou Because the Duke esved her from being sun over by his ows therefore she con- siders herself at liberty to lim him, and round him, and about him, on possible m, to say sharp, ish things to him, to make to him, and in the Third Act so y to manage ma ad ee gee | of poison, which a soliloquy i Sones eat Curtain, and a dramatic situation. ~ obody can den It is in this seme Third Act that the fine old crusted melodramatic curse is uncorked, and a impe- marvellous o the supperless, for no cause, or expli- t JaNUA Philistin been a h and the to die of Mr. Tr where h inish 0 chair

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Jasvary 31, 1891.) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. Philistine of the Philistines could possibly wish. It would have been a human y in poor t , JACK’S APPEAL. d the girl whose life he had saved had arrived just too late, only “ Ty is impossi toll net to die of a broken heart. But that “is quite another story.” ted chadiiiivestoes P compared Tih poled Kedah in the The piece is well played all round, especially by the men. | Army, and it must be very difficult to persuade them that the two cases are #0 Mr. Tuee is cneeenh, Sues in the ‘altra- melodramatic parts, cenentially dierent 0 to 2Aord no veal ground for sriovance."— The" Times,” where he ia too, naley, Pe wey Sas thing he Suse fo t | on “ An Earnest Appeal on Behalf of the Rank and File of the Navy.’’| inish of the Secon when, without a word, ; i chair before the fire lost in dism: This is Jack Tar to Tommy Atkins, loquitur :— Tommy prep, Pony ATKINS, penmen write tine Of the Wooden Walls of and likeways the Thin Red Line ; But for those as form that Line, mate, or for those as man them Walls, Scribes don’t seem so precious anxious to kick up their lyric equalls. Not a bit of it, my hearty ; for one reason— it don’t pay ; There is small my Tommy, for a Drnprn in our day. Oh, I know that arter your M.P.’s can up and quote Tasty tit-bits from old Cuanter, which they all reel off by rote ; But if there is a cherub up aloft to watch poor Jack, That there cherub ain’t a poet,—bards are on another tack. Tommy Arxins, Tommy Arxrys, Butt is sweet on te toasts,” And he spends his millions freely on his equadrons and his hosts, ,| Bat there isn’t much on’t, messmate, not so fur as J can see, Whether ’tis rant or rhino, that gets spent on you and me. Still the 7imes has took our case up,—werry handsome o’ the Times /— I have heard it charged with prejudice, class-hate, and similar But it shows it’s got fair sperret and a buzzum as can fee! When it backs us with a “* Leader” arter ting our ** A pe as fur. Frvat TaBeav. ’Tain’t encouraging, my hearty. As for me, I’m old and grey Triumph of the Artful Agent and bis lame Duck of a Daughter, Sybil Slyboots, | Tis too late now for promotion if it chanced to come my way ; r alias Becky Sharp, afterwards the Merry Duchess of Gooseberry. And my knowledge, and my patter, and my manners— I as perfect in its dramatic force as it is true to nature. It is! They mage’ be percisely fitted for a dandy ward-room mess. without exception the best thing in the whole piece. Mr. F., Kenn | But the Navy of the Future, Tommy Arxins, is our care, | as Reginald Slingsby, achieves a success unequalled since Mr. Ban-| We have nts through eo A changes, and for others must prepare. | crorr played the parvenu swell Havwirze. It should be borne in It will e the Navy r, more prospect of advance ; a mind that Mr. Ker only recently played admirably the poor stutter- | And what I say is, Tommyr,—let the young wns have a chance ! ing shabby lover in Struggle for Life. I ira loin, ce bon | Some I know will ery * Impossible, and slate the scheme like fun. M. Keer. Miss Jucra Nerison looks the part to the life: when | Most good things are ‘‘ impossible,” my Tommy,—till they're done . she has ceased to give occasional imitations of Miss Exzen Terrr, | Qaarter-decks won't fill from fokesels, not to any great extent bet’ and can really play the as “= as she looks it, then acies Bat, ee gue men a better chance! I guess that’s all that’s 0 i esired. others good need ’ mes : : _— T ~ _— dh cated =o - ” As the Times says, werry sensible and kind-like, prejudice aa a at firet, dies quickly, melts away like thaw- | struck ice; THE BOGEY, MAN! is every | eave French soldier, with U knapenek on ble back, , . “ ” ‘ay find a Marshal's baton at t tom of that pack, (Retort of @ Lady- Player who plays “' fur love.") Why should not a true British Tar, with pluck, and luck, and wit, (‘No game was ever vet invented which held the female mind in thrall! p; “ ” : : 5 thie bei save by indizect moana Whose weal esoqest have boon, co far an the Lalas Find at last a “* Loff's” commission wissen somewheres in his kit f were concerned, without ite Curates, or (Apye its Ae ae P 7 If men played for nothing, they would find it dull enough.””"—James Parn F : A ‘Tis mighty well for Menfolk at Womankind to gibe, WAKING THEM UP. And swear they do not care for games without some lure or bribe, | Fly-lcaf from an Energetic Kaiser's Diary. Bat e’en in James Payn’s armour there seems some weakish joints ; : ’ He does not care for *‘glorious Whist ” unless for ‘‘ sixpenny points!” wet Spock 6 Coons ond Sh nies OS) ae a Whist! Whist! Whist! It charms the Bogey, Man: | drive to station. Am Ante and i called out. | —— = : ; cial train is Whist! Whist! Whist! He’ll play it when he can. ; he pe payed ot ind ~—w | But * pointless Whist,” as Pars admits, is not at all his plan; | 2ive them the slip, and get into « horse-box of third-class omnibus ? You must have “* money on” to please the Bogey, Man! nr | 10 i5 P.M. te 320 4 w.— Bull is hezeo- box. seme ati Now, Ladies like to play “‘ for love,” a fault male hucksters b 245 4 M.— ata big town. Hurry out. or e Bat only condi anal aby te hy ney “ saad ~~ _ a | Throw off disguise of somebody else’s overcoat, and declare myself. | Man's vulgarer ambition ’s not just to play well and win ; Guard called out to escort me. When they are looking the other His eye is ever on the stakes, his interest on the “‘ tia.” way, hide under refreshment-counter, and get out of station unob- | Whist! Whist! Whist! That blatant Bogey, Man! served on all-fours. Am collared by policeman. Again have to | Whist! Whist! Whist! He'll flout us when he can. | declage anges, Give pellcemen tesnty maces, Dad Da ae | “Indirect means” though, after all, are portions of his plan ; | end borrow his offotal leak Bint. ov up the whole household, | For all his brag he loves the ‘‘ swag,” the Bogey, Man! 4 aM. to 54..—Find out the Archbishop. Bang at his front doer till ho pate hie heed out of window cad wants to now * What Mum’s the Word! on earth’s the matter?” corner. same (Mr. CHAMBERLAIN presided lately at a Deaf-and-Dumb Meeting. } business, with more or less success, at the residence of the Chief J he Justice. then at that of the Clerk of the Peace, and at those of any osEPH reflecteth :— other officials I can call to mind, ing up by « regular row Dear-mutes make the best audience, I see ; at that of the General in Command. comes out. Take They gave me no rude flood of gibes to stem. True, they were deaf, and so could not hear me, Bat they were dumb, so J could not hear them! ‘tation, Gateh, earl 5 a.M.—Haurry back to station. early cattle-train ging i Pp and declare myself. ire . on m down line, and tear away with the cattle, at seventy nites an hour, getting back to Berlin just in time for breakfast. Fancy I woke them up! Altogether, a very enjoyable outing. Mapame Rotanp Re-Eprrep (from a sham-Japanese point of he eee what caemes (hateasinn things are done in y name

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“ROUGE ET NOIR!” Oe, JowaTHan’s Peeartexixe PaosieM, (Some Way afler Hovwa Biglow’s ** Jonathan to John") J mathan (who has been reading the Articles on “* The Negro Question wn the United States,” in the English ** Times’’) log : — Ir may be ez you’re right, Joun, And both my hands are fall; You know ez | can fight, Jour, (I’ve wiped out ** Sitting Bull’. Ole Uncle 8 sez he, * I guess We see our fix,” sez he. **The* Thunderer’s’ paw lays down the law, Acoordin’ to J. B. To square it’s left to me | Blood ain't so cool as ink, Jomw ; Big words are easy wrote ; The “ coons”—well, you don’t think, Jomy, [ll let ’em cut my throat. Ole Unele 8. sez he, “I guess Ghost-dance must stop,” sz he. * Sa the ‘ braves’ and black « x-slaves Hed b’ longed to ole J. B. Insted of unto me ?”’ Ten art’cles in your Times, Jouy, ev giv me vice. I mind th’ old Slavery crimes, Jouy. I don’t need tellin’ twice. Ole Unele 8. sez he, “* I guess, I only guees,”’ sez he, ** Seven million blacks on his fulks’ backs Would kind o’ rile J. B. Ez much ez it riles me!’

The Red Man,—well, I s’pose, Jou, We’ ll hev to wipe Aim aout. Sech pizonous trash «z those, Jon, The world kin do without. Ole Unele 8. sez he, * I guees Injuns must go,” sez he. ** Cooper's Man won’t fit our plan, Though he once witched J. B. As once he fetched e’en me !” The Black Man! Ah, that’s wus-, Jony. Che chaps wuz right, ay joost, Who said the Slavery cuss, Jon, Wud yet come home to roost. Ole Unele 8. sez he, **I ~~ The problem set,” sez he, ; ** By that derned Nig. is black and big, And fairl zzles me, Ez it oul J, B.” Your 7imes would right our wrongs, Jony. an 8 wuz sweet on — at on dilemma’s p OuN, To fix me don’t on tein, “ —— ~o, he, “I ——, hough physic ’s good,”’ sez he. ** It doesn’t foller that he can sw:ller Prescriptions si - B. Put up by you for me!” Thet swaggerin’ black buck Nig., Jouy, mt a peated a : d as a— OHN, When doin’ wut! *s bid. Ole Unele 8. sez he, “‘ I guess He’s hateful when he ’s free. ; Eqnal with Aim, that dark-skinn'd limb ? No; that will not suit me, More than it wad J. B.!”

Emigrate the whole lot, Jou ? ell, that’s a tallish task ! In Afrie’s centre hot, Joun, Send ’em to breed and bask ? Ole Uncle 8. sez he, ** I guess I’d be right glad,” sez he, ** Bat—toill they go? ’Taiu’t done, you As easy as J. B. [know, Wud settle it—for me!”’ Rouge—there I see my way, Joun. But Noir—thet’s hard to front! It wun't be no child’s play, Jonn, Seven million Nigs to p beg Ole Unele 8. sez he, ‘*I We've a hard row,” sez he, ** To hoe just now, but thet, somehow, I fancy, friend J. B., Your Times may leave to me !” [Left cons:dering it.

WELCOME BACK! (Mr. Sawrier, who has been long absent in Australia, reappeared at St. James’s Hall on Jan. 19, and was received with great enthusiasm. } Back from your Australian trip! Punch, =! CHARLEs, your fist must grip. You have lighted on a time When we're all chill, choke, and grime. ’T were no marvel, © great baritone, Did you find your voice had nary tone. But there ’s none like you can sing * To Anthea,” ** The Erl-King.” Scuusert, Gounop, English Hatron, Equally your Fine Art’s pat on. Punch can never praise you scantly. A votre santé, good CaaRies Santiey !

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Janvary 31, 1891.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. OUR SPORT AND ART EXHIBITION. va dG > = = . * me -——__— 8 Ne? QW ka Vy 7 NMA Mawar wy Mire Nwir Acc /\\ ; 7g Ss \/ ~~ a “ON THE SCENT.” FOR BETTER—OR WORSE. [At the Anti-Gambling Demonstration recently held in Exeter Hall, Sir | Richanp Wenster, the Attorney-General, said that it was sup by coming uld therefore like to add, not for the | purpose of holding himself up as an example, that, during his entire interest many that it was impossible to eo pursuits without interested in a pecuniary sense. He in sports of all kinds, he had never made a bet.] Au! these are days when Recklessness, bereft of ready cash, Will strive to remedy the void by speculative splash ; It is a salutary sight for Bankruptcy and Debt— Our good Attorney-General who never made a bet. His interest in manly sports, an interest immense, Was ne'er d to a mere “‘ pecuniary sense ;” His boyhood’s love of marbles leaves him nothing to regret— Our good Attorney-General who never made a bet. Next, when a youth, the cricket-bat he first to wield, And “* Heads or Tails?” re-echoed for the i Our good Attorney-General who never made a bet. And when, an Undergraduate, he swiftly skimmed his mile, - —- staked = confidence on ie a little pile, le em not on his account in gambling ways to get— This good Attorney-General who never made a bet. To play for money ruins whist: and seldom can his Club Persuade him to put counters (coins for Zulus!) on the rub ; He has been known for lozenges to dabble with piquet ; He wasn’t Chief Attorney then, nor was it quite a bet. His wise profession’s ornament, he looks on all such Far otherwise than Russext does, than Locxwoop. For pure platonic love of play he stands unequalled yet— Our good Attorney-General who never made a bet. St. Stephen’s, too, thinks much of him ; but ah! his soul it pains To know that Speculation o’er the lobby sometimes ; He’s chided Ocp Moratrry and Rawpoiru and the Beseeching them on bended knees to never make « bet. We all are fond of him, in short, the Boxes with the Gods ; That he’s a first-rate fellow we would gladly lay the odds. But no !—himself would veto that. We must not wound our pet Attorney-General who never made a bet. THE ARISTOTELIAN TREASURE-TROVE. Aut have heard of ‘‘ a Manuscript found in a Bottle,”’ But here is a waif with romance yet more fraught : A newly-found treatise by old ARIsrorLe Is fi indeed from Ocean of Thought. Oh, happy discoverer, lucky Museum ! Not this time the forei scores off Jouw Butt. i lift, for such luck, their Ze Deum ! ; , hopes, such a triumph to dull! May it all turn out right! Further details won’t tire us. We may get some straight-tips from that Coptic papyrus! ROBERT ON SKATIN’, i to neggo with Gam on tape, end cage So cn \ t noboddy can reelly tell what is reel grand injiy- Ui they tye, and tage it Sesaly, ane gazes 38 8 chance. I remembers how I used to try and li ikkit, when I was much yunger than I am now, and stuck to it in spite of several black eyes stood pint, and shouts of, ‘‘ Now then, Butter-Fingers!” till a serten werry fast Bowler sent me away from and blew legs, and then I guvit up. I and have never attem not bin a shivering thre long bm ae I in a shivering ime, direckted to the strange fack that, whilst engaged in a cussin and swarin at slippery sno, ewerybody else seemed to like wun-a-clock. Now it so appened that when waiting upon the y: swell I have before spoken of, at the ‘* Grand ’Otel, he was jined by another swell, who told him what a glorius day’s skating he had been avin in Hide Park! and how he ment to go agen to-morrer, “if the luvly frost wood but continue!” So my cureosety was naterally egsited, and nex day off I gos to Hide Park, and there I seed the xplanation of what had serprised me so much. For there was hunderds and hunderds of not only spectably drest Gents, but also of reel-lookin Ladys, a skatin away like fun, and a ying theiree ves jest as if larfing away and inj it had bin a nice Summer's day. Presently I append to find myself bel looking i o cunts bt Re man, with a i eral-looking chair, and seweral pares of Skates; and presently he says to me, quite permiscus-like, “‘They all seems to be a injying theirselves, don’t they, Sir?” which they most suttenly dias and then he says to me, says he, * Do ou skate, Sir?” to which my natral made me reply, through the | eid, He sternly scorned to toss the coin, howe’er his friends might fret— or JAMES; ide ‘Not much!” ‘* Will you have a pair on, Bir,” “ve he, *‘ jest for atrial?” ‘Is there any fear of a axident?” says I. “Oh no, Sir,” eays he, “ not if you follers my hinstrucshuns.” So I acshally sets | myself down in his chair, and lets him put me on a pair of Skates! The first differculty was, how to get up, which I found as I coudn’t | manage at all without his asistance ; for, to say, both of my | feet insisted on going quite contrary ways. Howewer by | on him — tite round his waste, I at last | three or four slides, and then I returned to the ¢ ‘thort { was figger Hencouraged by his truthfool go of him and try a few slides by myse hadmerably, but my_ bootif ; falling, slided rite away from me in a most and down I came on my onerabel seat, with such foreteen stun ra a cocked-ha' sah u TG FREE es rt i BS g A

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A FREEZING POINT. (By a Frozen-out Lover.) THEY ad me thou art cold, my A fact, that t scarcely odd is. Gales half so eruel never beat Against human bodies. Cupid's attire is far too light To weather Thirty Fahrenheit. How cana glow the soul entrance, When frostbite nips the finger, And blushes quit the countenance To nigh the nostril linger ! Warmth were a miracle, in sight And grip of Thirty Fahrenheit. Chill! chill to me, my Paradise! ! I’ll not com lain or curse on. One cannot well be otherwise T rtal > eee cmbaleah, we fight Mere a Ferocious Thirty Fahrenheit. Cold art thou? Not so cold as I—

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Nought | could be colder. I’m far too cold to sob or sigh, Still less in passion smoulder. I’m turning fast to something quite As numb as Thirty Fabrenbeit. IsrormaTion Requirep.—“ Sir, I F ~ ey Sermons. 1 should be to know where these are ho” as that’s the place for | yours truly, One wHo Syorzs,” Naw Boox OF ‘Tnen Li IFE.— The Bedad's Sons, By the Author of the tale of Indian Life, The Begum’s | Daughters.

THE DELIGHTS OF TRIAL BY JURY. TsaEset GENTLI MEN ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN A JupicrAL Frame or MIND AFTER HAXGING ABOUT THE PRECINCTS OF 1H# C /URT FOR SEVERAL Days, UNDER PENALTY OF A Heavy Fine, waiue THEIR Private Business iN THE CITY AND ELSEWHERE IS GOING TO THE Dogs, OFFICERS DO THE WoBK, AND RELIEVE Busy Men ?) (Way sHouLD nor HauF-Pay

ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P. ITvuse of Commons, Thursday, January 22.—Both Houses met to-dey after Christmas Recess. No (QcgEn’s Speech ; no moving and seconding of Address; no Royal y gh of Spzaxen to iam, strange, an sirt generally a little Only Rosert FowLer rises circumstances superior aes Sout eh Labty a e y like Boreas,” says Cavs- TON “Only not so rude,” sa Harry Lawson, jealous ~ the reputation of M etropo- Members, even though A some sit on the Benches posite. With folded hands thrast. behind oat - bene stride, voice, and blooming comn- tenance, Sir Ropert D a tively pervades the Lobby. Personally receives Porx Hennessy; shakes hands litan M body ; and finally | cocked Ming Ss moment under - lit archway leading into House, presents and attractive King Yah! Yah! the Glorified Al. Seotch Members take possession of Commess $0: to-night. Anvocate brings in B iding new machinery f ate legis- lation ; the Seotch M er > ane fall san sonpendl, Uns Commission and pro- | his

tear it to ribbons. Meanwhile other Members troop off to Lords, where is provided which beats the pantomimes into fits. Two new Peers to take their seats ; procession formed in back room outside; enters from below Bar. First comes Black Rod, with nothing mg ye pie ie center Sing <0 ham, hiseye, end personage, ve feet high, with a dangerous gleam in his ey the Royal "Arm of England quartered { in scarlet and blue and manly Behind, in red cloaks slashed with ermine, oor Baron aa er escort of two brother Peers. There being no r room for them to advance in due procession, they fall into me file, make their way to the Woolsack, where sits that pink of ivalry, that mould of fashion, that perfection of form, the Lozp Hicu New Peer on one knee, presents bundle of paper to Lozp Cuascettor. L, C., coyly turning his head on one side, ginger! takes roll, hands it to Attendant. New Peer gets up; bundles back to table; here in wig and gown gabbles from long | t. New Peer writes his goeemting subscription towards ~at-Arms ‘ ides for so to | CHANCELLOR, the door ; passes x - Follow-my-leader. Garter King ~-y ww bel’ up Gangway to row of cone Hew Per ted; tells them to pu r ; counts ten; nods to them; they rise to feet, = cocked-hats in direction ‘of Loxrp CHANCELLOR on Woolsack. He raises his in return of salute. be mages ym again. Garter King counts ten ; pods | B they get salute Loup yy ot eit onee more. ee —four —ten,” Garter King mumbles to himself. Gor rise; salute Loxp og exuion then Garter King leading the way, they march back to Garter King now introduces new Member to Lonp CaHancetion. and’ L. C. starts as if he had never seen him before; then extends right

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— 60 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARL {Janvany 31, 1891, ‘aesithe Site Beas dastes ession reformed, walks out behind Bar. A f Re i HIC hand ; New Peer shakes it, proc all h-— ; done owe again. Impressive, THE FRIEZE OF THE PARTHENON. oe 4 ae monotonous, and as soon as possible after its conclusion Noble Ewetaxp to ATHENS :— ards ome, to done.—In Commons, Private Bill Legislation Bill read a Second Time. © Qeune of Cities, ee Friday.—W™. O’ Bares, standing with tear- stained face on pier at Boulogne By fraud and = re 0! we Ganseat i ’ waving wet handkerchief across the main, has drawn away JUSTIN ay Buried in dust, —— 1 with the oom bh "t be back till Mond: PARNELL was to have come down to-da ~~ a believe to be still Leader of Vaited Crates the bad of the Parhenon; i operation of Drimes Act. Buen Fox ingly looked in shortly after Speaker took the ir. ‘Seen Burger Rassrr anywhere about, Tony ?” he asked. . I'up and told bim about McCarrny’s mt Oh inde, Paid’ Bems Fox; ‘if that’s | the case, I think I won’t trou Howe | My as you ae. sutel beve toa | but as long as Baer Raserr comes here, {| must be on spot to vindicate my position. So I'll say ta-ta. No—never mind rin for fire-escape ; can walk down the steps tor da Tins there being no Irish Leader on the and hardly any Irish Members, a rare chance for a ing to British business. CHANNING py = on os ¢ working Overtime on the Railways ; Mother of heroes, Athens, nought availed Dr. Channing in the Pulpit. Resolution invoking inte seanenel Peand The Macedonian’s triumph, or the chain Trade. Question a little awkward for Government: Conde ad afford to Beard of| Of Rome; the conquering i failed, Railway Directors, yet wouldn’t do to flout numerous body of working-men, | His myriad poate have trampled thee in _— chiefly voters. Proposed to shelve business by appointment of Select Committee. | They for thy deathless body raised the p Opposition not going to let them off so roe tg Debate poet up all night, wind- And held the torch, but Heaven forbade the fire. ing up with critical Division ; Government majority only 17. * And this,” said Op Moratrry, with injared look, “after Puowxer’s thm didst os _ i, atone Sy bands, brilliant oration on the time-tables of the London and North-Western Railway urst in war's thunder on horde, Company! If he'd only illustrated it with magic-lantern, things would have Who shrank appalled before thee, a hands Gone’ difterently, But he was obstinate ; said there would be be difficulty in Wielded again the i — ble cont arranging the ides, and so rejected proposal. The sword that aS e Persian when he came, Business done.—Cuanntne's Resolution about Overtime on Railways negatived Countless as sand, thy virgin might to tame. by 141 Votes against 124. Mother of freemen, Athens, thou art free, Free as the spirits of thy mighty dead ; DI HOMAGE TO SIR JAMES HANNEN. And Freedom’s northern daug’ ter calls to thee, o i ter | Con tains , =r —As the , egnieed — 41 of Ss me pe ny Ny SF. a eo | rs) ee oe Tele then ae coe thy head, | Fer DIA! o ress you’ It is common knowledge t within the ew days the - ” * Corte Right Honourable Sir James Hawwew has been raised to a dignity greater Cas I who - free, to deck ey marble brow ai that he has been able to claim for the last eighteen years, when has sa’ | President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High art ATHENS REPLIES :— of Justice. On leaving the Court i in which so many of us were known to him, Shot-dinted, but defiant of decay, GE he was kind enough to say, “ Those eighteen years had Rg otghioen You so of | Stand my gaunt columns in a tragic line, Devo happiness to him, chiefly arising from the advantage he had The shatter relics of a glorious day, naect before him habitually practising in that Court Barristers who had felt nd Mute guardians of the lost ‘Athena s shrine. their part was just as important as his in the administration of Justice, and The flame of hope, that ray) to despair who had assisted him enormously. Without their assistance, his task would Ere Hellas burst her chains, is imaged there. have ieee an arduous ne, whereas it had been an he had ald, an agrenable m one.” As I personally have had the honour of appearing before his Fegems Gage wes whe cane Sean erin. for many years, I t thik that it is only right that I should make some ecknewe Ere yet the — of her d were run ; : ledgment of this it tion of my services. And with harsh zeal defaced ruined fane It is quite true — I have felt, as Sir Jawes Hawwen suggests, that my Full in the blazing I light of Hellas’ sun. part (humble as it may have been) has been just as important as his in the g my home with sacrilegious hand, THE administration of Justice. But it is gratifying to me beyond measure to learn e bore his captives to a foreign land. that my invariable custom of bowi to his Lordship on the commencement Ilissus mourns his tutelary ree n and conelusion of each day’s forensic tLL".. has been the limit of my Theseus in some far city recline : ‘we: * habitual tice’ in the Probate Division—should ‘ have assisted him enor- Lost is the Horse of Night that erstwhile trod mously.” I can =v . that, thanks to his un kindness and courtesy, My hall; the god-like shapes that once were mine | ne my daily reo his greetings from the ch, instead of being an Call to me, “ Mother save us ere we die, ngs arduous task, AN A a be I have the honour to remain, Sir, Far from thy arms beneath a sunless sky.” ie your very obedient re (Signed) A. Burertess, Juror. - . me oe ted J Pump- Handle Court, January 24, 1891, ot answer arms 3 ’ - Their ancent home fast upon the + rock- pa See a FI ens yearn * Pro-pieious!” —In last Sunday’ s Observer we read that at St. Peters- a) all in vain pel Aer alles ween’? a mA A burg Madame Mena, as Juliette, ‘‘was recalled thirty-one times before the Must the indignant shade of Pu1p1as mourn HORS proscentum,’ The italics are ours, rather! If this sort of thing is to be For his dear city, free but how forlorn ? oe puted during the Opera season here, and each gifted singer is recalled in Write te proportion to his or her merits, Lahey tS away till the following eae seaeie Nay, I turn to thee, tase Wi morning. Juliette must have said pn ev oceasion, ‘* a and pray thee, from thy northern throne rae fh is wach sweet sorrow, That 1 could say ‘good-night’ until to-morrow.” A Step and hearken, give them back to me, the usual chorus of operatic Aabitués will be, ‘‘ We won’t go home till morning, O generous sister, give me back mine own. IL a ae appear!” with refrain, “ For—she (or he)’s a jolly good Thy jewelled forehead needs no alien gem singer, ad infinitum, or “‘ ad infl-next-nightum.” Torn from a hapless sister’s diadem. FOR « (> NOTICE.—Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, wil! THe Pk in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by « Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper. To this rule Inuit there will be no exception Speeial

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