Sizing Them Up

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 17, 23 April 1903, Page 18

Sizing Them Up

The clever caricaturist, like the skilled comedian, holds the mirror up to nature. Both exaggerate, each in his own way, and yet their pictures of current manners are, in the main, tru,e %$ life. Such is the clever skit which appeared in a recent issue of the Cumberland ' Herald ' in the course of its description of the purport of an anti' Catholic lecture by a notorious female in Parramatta :—: —

' Owing to a heavy snowstorm in Iceland, a very small audience turned up at the Town Hall on Thursday, 19th instant. The idea of the story goes like this :— Nuns are boiled girls with tacks driven in their fleet. They are denied hairpins, and submitted to other hardships. The Rev. Mother pokes her finger in their eyes daily for a week. The priest then mixes six bushels of broken glass with 100 gallons of nuns, and runs a steam roller over the lot, crushing well. After two hours' simmering in boiling oil, the lot is spilled down stairs, and then strained through a rabbit-proof fence. After being allowed to cool gradually in an equinoxial gale, it is then cut up in blocks, and labelled like anything. Protestants were to be pitied for not knowing this

recipe, as! tf&j^Mayrated^ Cathofifes have all the ton ia themselves.