. Punch . edicine VendoiSole Proprietors, T. Roberts & Co., S, Crane CoalFleet Street, London. V Ask for PARRS LIFE PILLS. February 2, PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 43 THE CLERICAL MOUSTACHE MOVEMENT. O Shave or not to Shave ?that is the questionwhich is just now agita-ting the Parsonic tis better inthe throat to suffer thestings and torments of aninflamed swallow, or totake armour gainst ahost of troubles, and bynot shaving end them ? Certainly, at firstthought, one hardlyseems to fancy a Parsonin moustaches, and wouldalmost as soon look tosee a Quaker in , afte
. Punch . edicine VendoiSole Proprietors, T. Roberts & Co., S, Crane CoalFleet Street, London. V Ask for PARRS LIFE PILLS. February 2, PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 43 THE CLERICAL MOUSTACHE MOVEMENT. O Shave or not to Shave ?that is the questionwhich is just now agita-ting the Parsonic tis better inthe throat to suffer thestings and torments of aninflamed swallow, or totake armour gainst ahost of troubles, and bynot shaving end them ? Certainly, at firstthought, one hardlyseems to fancy a Parsonin moustaches, and wouldalmost as soon look tosee a Quaker in , after all, we cannotsee why the former shouldnot wear them, at leastprovided always thatthey suit his style of associate moustacheswith military men; butthen do not Clergymenbelong to the ChurchMilitant ? All we fearis, if the movement begenerally followed, that pet Parsons, if they join in it, will givethemselves more (h)airs than they do at present, and we think thereare enough apparent as it OUR ROVING CORRESPONDENT. My dear Ponch, The severity of the late weather, which had nearly frozen upmy energies as well as the contents of my inkstand, is past, and I takeadvantage of the thaw, when ones ideas seem to flow more easily, todrop you a few lines, which I will preface with a hope that you haveenjoyed your Christmas. For my part I always await that festive season with feelings ofpleasure not altogether unalloyed. I am not thinking now of thoseprovoking results of simple addition with which my bootmaker and tailormake a point of favouring me. I am not alluding to the playful eccen-tricities of my nephew Tom (get. 7h) iu whose company I was condemnedto dine on the 25th of last month, who, in the exuberance of boyishspirits, is wont to treat my hair as a practicable bell-pull, and acting onthis ingenious hypothesis proceeds to unbutton my waistcoat by wayof a street-door. I forgive the Waits, although they played Oh,Willie, we have missed you under my bed-room window to
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