THE ARTIST'S SUNDAY IN.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 158, 22 September 1883, Page 14

THE ARTIST'S SUNDAY IN.

Bobbt : When jfche enterprising bobby's not parading, All: % '■-' Not.parading, Bobbt : His manly form and ogling tfte gells, All: The sells, Bobbt : Ho lifcea to put down wicfced Sunday-traiding; All : ■;, / » Sunday-trading, Bobby : And landsome Wicked artist in the cells, All: ■ • ■■ •$, /j^e cc i] 3i Bobbt : When the artist art is seeking arter, All : Seeking 1 arter, Bobbt : A taking pretty pictures in the sun, All : In the sun, Bobbt : He doesn't know that Act of Charles the Martyr All : . The martyr, Bobbt : And the artist's lot is not a happy one. The other day, in — well, in Mtidopolis— old Shylock Abrahams met Tubal Solomon, whereupon the following conversation : — " Hello Sbylock, ole man, and how you vas ? I hears your poy Herman vas doin a pi*? peesness up at dot country stores." " Herman has left dat blace," said the other sadly ; " you see peesness rushed off a lestle at first, bud den it drop avay un doan bay expenses." " Veil, veil," cried Tubal, "un so Herman gone shtone proke agen." " Vhell it gomes to bretty much de same ting Dubai; you shee der fire didn't get a fair start pefore dey prings der tamd't engines along, un squirts id out on 'iin. Poor Herman ! he vas knock gompletely sthiff yen dey fines der boxes o' shavins in de corners, un de keroshene shmeared all ofer de gounters ! He vas so young you see, un he doan understhan der peesness. Goot day, Dubai." Huxley, who rode The Drummer in the Metrop., and came in last,, was asked what was the matter with his horse. " Wanted time," was the reply. —The winner of tha Metrop. is a Gem of the first wafer, while First Demon was only a good second on this occasion.— Why will there be a burst up in the Melbourne Cup betting P Because a Despot and a First Demon are struggling for supremacy.— A good name for the next Epigram— Legend colt ? Do you give it up? It's a conundrum. As an Assyrian won the Cup lnst year, a' Zulu the year before— why, of course, can't you see it ? No. .Why, a Britisher, of course. I Professor Bernard's complimentary party to his pupils, and their parents and friends on Wednesday night was a great success. About seventy couples were present, besides a large number of spectators. The dancing of the children was very much admired, especially that of the youngest, a little girl of about seven years of age. Soon after 10 o'clock tbe children dispersed, and dancing was kept up by the elders till after midnight. A first-class supper was provided by Mr G. .Robsou, of the Commercial Dining Rooms, to which all did ample justice. Profess r BerLnrd may bo complimented on the efficient manner in which the children took part in the dancing. There was a brave soldier a Colonel, , Who swore in a way most infolonel ; But he never once thought As a Christian man ought, He imperilled his own life etolonel. 'Twas the fault of his father patolonel, That during his youth bright and volQnel, This Colonel so fair, Had learned so to swear,' And saddened his mother matolonel. We hare received the appended epistle from Messrs " Gilb'yand Richardson, lateW. A. Richardson," of Cambridge, '-The name of .the senior member of the firm was printed " Gilry "in our last issue, for which error their own cheaply-printed circular is responsible : — " Sir,— We begto.apologise for the mistake we made m believing you to be a gentleman, and to tender our thanks for the grandadvertisement you so kindly gave us in the last issue of your paper, and remain, yours, etc., Gilbt and Richardson." The following is our reply :— " Gentlemen,— We beg to apologise for not havin" made any mistake in supposing you to be asses.and tender our thanks for your acknowledgement of the fact, and remain, yours, &c. (ah! that etcetera!), Editor." We- are getting awfully fastidious in these days. Not for worlds would we mingle in the mazy dance with anyone under the ranks of a marquis or a duchess. We would prefer to sit in the gallery among the gods and look on, as the ladies are sometimes permitted to do at swell banquets. These remarks are apropos of a select' hop, where everything was en regeh, down to the dancing-pumps. It was understood to be given as a compliment to the pupils and their immediate relatives and friends. Many of the first-men-tioned, in the innocence of their guileless hearts, provided themselves with orthodox evening costume, but unfortunately omitted to obtain the necessary tickets. They were therefore relegated to the gallery, aiiiou:? the " spectators," and graciously permitted to feist \neir eyes on the beauty and chivalry gathered there but they were denied any particpatlon in the not iesa substantial- supper that followed. Henceforth, we shall draw tue line at invitation hops, where there is nothing to iregaie one's self but spectacular effects.

" Not only in this age is there freethought, bufc a good deal of free living, too."— Bishop Peabson. Free living !.. Well'!' we guess you're right— A good round yearly screw ; Suit of fine black, shirt front snow white, And nothing- much to do. A tnble dress'd with dainty care, Decanters glowing red ; The price — a prosy pious prayer — Another's sermon read ! Wo his-ber truth could lips e'er tell, Nothing- could plainer be, Than that," the cloth " oft study well The art of " living free !" There is something peculiai'ly amusing in the Great Bashaw's horror of the rod, and it is pretty evident that in the course of his distinguished services as a lay reader he has quite overlooked that adage of Solomon the Wise. It was not always thus. Once in the not remote past the Grand Bashaw (Powers eternal ! such names mingled 1) wielded the weapon of a mighty flagelator, as man.) youngsters now growing up to manhood will remember to their dying day. brown is perhaps a victim to those new ideas which are tbe result of long experience, if not repentance, as well as to the rigid tee-total element in the Board of Education. There seems to be no doubt *hat after school hours one evening, be imbibed a trifle more of liquid inspiration than is good, even for the most case-hardened pedagogne, and that he neglected the proper precaution of the old stagers'— to take a hair of the dog that bit him. He doesn't deny this much. But the heinousness of poor Brown's sin consists in the fact that he was found out; ; If he had retired to his lodgings and sipped his whisky over a novel, he might probably have had '• a reviver" in' the morning, and squeezed through without attracting the notice of one or two mischievous and saucy ' boys, or the heavy displeasure of his senior, Dominie Snmpson. But, of course, Brown will now don the blue ribbon, religiously swear off, get pale with dyspepsia, be the object of saucy hoys' mingled admiration and dread, and succeed in the world. Nil Desperandum I