. Punch . is Mother Church, and that the anonymous individual addressed isa parson who has run away, and, it is feared, means to go over toRome. This clerical fugitive we suppose it is that Diz. implores towrite, and begs him to think of his mother. Ingenious Idea. We know a Paterfamilias, who being disappointed of his ChristmasTree, went furtively into his wifes bed-room, and brought down herSunday Crinoline, which he cleverly hung up in the middle of theroom, and made it do duty for a tree. Ornamented with drums, crackers,wooden apples and pears, and the usual Noahs Ark variety of zoolo-gica
. Punch . is Mother Church, and that the anonymous individual addressed isa parson who has run away, and, it is feared, means to go over toRome. This clerical fugitive we suppose it is that Diz. implores towrite, and begs him to think of his mother. Ingenious Idea. We know a Paterfamilias, who being disappointed of his ChristmasTree, went furtively into his wifes bed-room, and brought down herSunday Crinoline, which he cleverly hung up in the middle of theroom, and made it do duty for a tree. Ornamented with drums, crackers,wooden apples and pears, and the usual Noahs Ark variety of zoolo-gical bonbon-cases, and illumined with hundreds of little wax-tapers,the effect was quite a bit of fairy-land, and certainly no Crinoline everlooked lighter. Unlike other Crinolines, it was not in any ones wayeither, though it shared ultimately the fate of all Crinolines, inasmuchas every ones hand was raised against it until it was regularly pickedto pieces. PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.—January 19, DIVORCE A VINCULO. Mrs. Carolina Asserts her Right to Larrup her Mgger. January 19, 18G1.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 29 makeNature wellthermometer fallsthat she will take THE FACE OF NATURE. have notbeen out of town,and therefore cannotform a very accurateopinion, but we thinkthe face of Na-ture must be get-ting rather dirty,seeing it is fourweeks since the frostset in, and daring allthat time she canthave had it is true there wasa thaw for some fewhours a fortnightsince, but judgingfrom the filthy dirtymess this made inLondon, we cannotthink the face ofNature can havebeen much cleanedby it. Snow hasfallen in some places,and there the faceof Nature mustundoubtedly lookwhite; but this is nomore a sure proofthat her face is reallyclean, than the chalkupon Clowns cheeksis an indication thatthey are so. Per-haps the washingthat she had duringthe past year maydispense with any more at present, and while thenightly down to zero, we cannot of course expec
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