CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4102, 2 May 1892, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

"Caricaturing." [To ma' Editor.] Sir.—Muoh amusement oan ofttiraes be afforded the ignorant and thoughtless, without the employment of muoh wit or talent. In evident knowledge of this fact an itinerant caricaturist who huß taken up his temporary abode with üb, has found in some members of our looul police staff, a prolifio subject for the employment of his ten lucid momenta, In one of his late clem productions he has represented a certain energetic Sergeant of Police as an aged, physically broken down inmate of a public charity institution occupying "a place where he ought to be." Surely the author of this impudent caricature is awjre thfttmer of the moral stump of ho who is thf object of his spiteful art, seldom 01 never have to. fall back on publii ohnrity when overtaken by age. Th< class of men who usually find them selves in this painful predicament an they whose youth and manhood hart been racrificed at the shrine o Bacchus. I would recommend m; artistic friend to seriously reflect upoi this fact, and moreover bear in mini that if some power could and wouh assign all of us to our proper sphere in society; many of us would 6m ourselves located in a more contemp tible institution than that of an " 01 Man's Home"; and further, for hi own benefit he might easily dißcovt more interesting themes fw th employment of his pencil than thos • which be has. publicly exhibited. — am, etc, Resident..