MrPunch's history of modern England . apers,writes in ironic vein respecting that den of abominationwhich, I am told, has been established in some clubs, called 2l8 Tobacco Tabooed the Smoking Room. The embargo on pipes was not re-moved for many years. A well-known judge removed hisname from a well-known club about the year 1890 because thecommittee refused to tolerate pipe-smoking on their early ranged himself on the side of liberty, and in 1856was greatly incensed against the British Anti-Tobacco Society,as against all Antis, who, not content with hating balls,plays, and othe
MrPunch's history of modern England . apers,writes in ironic vein respecting that den of abominationwhich, I am told, has been established in some clubs, called 2l8 Tobacco Tabooed the Smoking Room. The embargo on pipes was not re-moved for many years. A well-known judge removed hisname from a well-known club about the year 1890 because thecommittee refused to tolerate pipe-smoking on their early ranged himself on the side of liberty, and in 1856was greatly incensed against the British Anti-Tobacco Society,as against all Antis, who, not content with hating balls,plays, and other amusements themselves, want to enforcetheir small antipathies on the rest of us. The relaxations of men of fashion, if less multitudinous thanto-day, were at least tolerably varied. The golden age of thedandies had passed, but the breed was still not quite extinctin 1849; witness Thackerays picture of Lord Hugo Alley, at the Opera, was one of their favouriteresorts; and its attractions are summed up, during the season. GROUP IN THEATRE BOX 2ig Mr. Piiuclis History of Modern England of 1844, in the last stanza of a Song of the SuperiorClasses : — Blest ballet, soul-entrancing, Who would not rather gazeOn youth and beauty dancing Than one of Shakespeares plays?Give me the haunt of Fashion, And let the Dramas shrineEngross the vulgars passion ; Fops Alley, thou art mine. Robuster natures found distraction in knocker-wrenchingand organizing- parties to witness executions, but it would beas unfair to judge the manners of the high life of the timefrom the exploits of the mad Marquess of Waterford as itwould be to base ones estimate on the achievements of LordShaftesbury. Thackeray, in The Newcomes, written in 1853,gives a somewhat lurid account of the entertainment at theCoal Hole, from which the indignant colonel abruptly with-drew with his son Clive. The moral atmosphere of CyderCellars and similar places of entertainment was not exactlyrarefied, but Punch makes a
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