BITS FROM PUNCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 113, 27 March 1862, Page 3

BITS FROM PUNCH

"No Caw>s —V\o ob trie tint our su mli'c ftiemlb in biutUnd ire adopting a \er\ mi c p' n When a hippy pur ha* Letu made i happ couple the announcement is rhih iv me ill tlie pape , n i aftei the notification tint Aidubild Cameioii l^c farlane lias been wedded to Jessie Flora Farquhaisori, comes the second notification "No Cards." This is, Mr: flinch repeats, a very proper thing. The tomfoolery of a couple of cards, fastened togethei- with a bit ot glorified twine, lias, we believe, descended to the inferior creation : but cards are still sent, ami the consequence is, that at every wedding mortal offence is sure to be given to somebody, who has been accidentally forgotten in the excitement, and who has read in the book of Etiquette that; the 'non-reception of cards . implies that you are to be dropped—j-ou are not a sort of person whom the husband wishes tho wife to know. But, if no cards are sent, no grievance can arise... Mr. Punch only! wishes that people Would have the : sense to apply a similar rule in tho case of vi:-its, and that it was not thought necessary to go rushing over the Province;of Brick 'called. London to leave a piece of pasteboard; at a door which you have not the least idea of entering. Why not do away with the card nonsense 1 At all events", if the.-ere-minders are necessary,., why not, make Sir Rowland Hill carry them?. Surely it is a higher compliment tt) send- a card by a knight than to hand it to your vassal.. . Let us post our cards until we abandon them altogether. Then, the ladies will have time to ;go to such a number of pleasant places with their husbands, instead of; being obliged.to. irritate the latter by eternal refusals, based on .the necessity of leaving cards at the De Bore's, or the FitzbebJiers'. Mrs. Punch means, henceforth, to send all her csuds by the post, and invites all her lady friends to imitate her example until the time when No Cards shall be the universalrule.— Punch. ~:..■...■:. , ,