MrPunch's history of modern England . OFFENDED DIGNITY Small Swell (who has just finished a quadrille): Hm, thank goodnessthats over. Dont give me your bread-and-butter Misses to dance with—Iprefer grown Women of the World! ( The bread-and-butter Miss had asked him how old he was, and whenhe went back to school.) punsters and conundrum makers. In the main he was astrenuous supporter of education, especially elementary educa-tion, and the recognition and reward of men of science andletters, but, along with his general support of literary andscientific institutions, he seldom missed a chance
MrPunch's history of modern England . OFFENDED DIGNITY Small Swell (who has just finished a quadrille): Hm, thank goodnessthats over. Dont give me your bread-and-butter Misses to dance with—Iprefer grown Women of the World! ( The bread-and-butter Miss had asked him how old he was, and whenhe went back to school.) punsters and conundrum makers. In the main he was astrenuous supporter of education, especially elementary educa-tion, and the recognition and reward of men of science andletters, but, along with his general support of literary andscientific institutions, he seldom missed a chance of makinggame of learned societies, beginning with the British Associa-p—1 225 Mr. Pline lis History of Modern England tion. Ihe ignorance of candidates for appointments in theCivil Service does not escape his reforming zeal, when in 1857no fewer than 44 per cent, were rejected for bad spelling;yet in 1852 we find him publishing a picture of a Japaneseas a black man. Spiritualism invaded England from America at the end of. ^^c TWO WORDS TO A BARGAIN Japanese: We wont have Free Trade. Our ports are closed, and shallremain so. American: Then we will open our ports, and convince you that yourewrong. the forties; the mania for table-turning dates from 1852, andin 1855 the famous medium Daniel Dunglas Home (the ori-ginal of Brownings Sludge) paid his first visit to the very first Punchs attitude was hostile, sceptical, evenderisive; and he was one of the first to condemn the harryingof humble fortune-tellers while fashionable and expensive ex-ponents of clairvoyance w^ere immune from prosecution. Crystal-gazing is mentioned in 1851. Playing upon words, in the 226 Exploiting the Dead Almanack for 1852 we read : It is related as astonishing thatthere are some clairvoyants who can see right through anybody ;but that is not so very strange. The wonder is that there shouldbe anybody who cannot see through the clairvoyant. In1853 it was seriously suggested by a mesmerist
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