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    • IN THE SMOKING-ROOM.
    • MUSIC HATH CHARMS ?
    • THIMBLE-RIG.
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      ~ July Ii , 1868.] The Tomaha Wk. 17 __

      ~ july ii , 1868 . ] THE TOMAHA WK . 17 __

      In The Smoking-Room.

      IN THE SMOKING-ROOM .

      ^Mhv^-M^M* * Present. H.R.H. F D M L The...

      ^ MHV ^ -M ^ M * * Present . H . R . H . F D M L THE D OF C BR—E . General Sir R t N R , G . C . B ., K . S . I . The D OF C E . —Well , General , my boy , I ' m glad to of see those you back cussed again niggers , especiall . y after giving so good an account praise SIR is R most T flattering ( towing . ) . — I I'm shall sure preserve your it Royal in . my Hi bosom ghness as 's the most cherished heirloom of my family ! The D OF C e . —Nonsense , General ! Remember , you ain ' t answering a deputation this time ! You ' re only having a little bit of a chat with poor old Cammy—tough old Cammy , manding General , - as in-Chief tough as and ever as you simp 'd le meet an on old a Field long -Marshal summer ' s Com day - . So no gammon with tne i General , about family , heirlooms , and the rest of it ! " . Sir R T . —Well , your Royal The D OF C E { interrupting ) . —Call me Cammy , General . Sir R T ( smiling ) . —Well , —Cammy if your Royal ( a frown jrom the D )—if Cammy insists upon it—I trust the Royal Family are " happy and glorious " ( to quote the National Anthem ) . Of Her Majesty , I myself can speak ; when I had the honour of an audience with her she was looking in the best of health .

      I he JLJ of < ~ E . —un yes , my cousin's uncommonly well . She ' s been quite gay this year . Gave an evening breaktail fast at coats Bucking , indigestible ham Palace comestibles , consisting , and chiefl pleasure y of li boats ght trousers . Alex- , andra is getting quite strong again , and is awfully popular : so she should be , for she's a kind-hearted , lively , and highprincipled girl . Albert Edward is as fond of his cigar as ever . Take him . all in all he ' s far from a bad sort of fellow . Alfred is all right again—of course you heard of the dastardly attempt upon the poor lad ' s life ? And as for Arthur , he ' s becoming such a swell in engineering that if you don ' t take precious good care General he . will , one of these days , cut even you out , Master Sir R t { smiling )— . And the young ladies ? ^ The D—— OF C E . —Loo , an awful swell in sculpture ( got a bust of her brother into the Academy this year ); Beatrice going on nicely with her French ; Helena happy , and Alice growing more like her mother every day . Viccy is a great gentlemanl favourite in y Berlin young , and fellow Mary Teck , you . know Of course , has married you know that very that Christian has turned out a very mad wag Royal Sir Academy R t ( smiling Dinner . )— . And Oh , yes the ; theatres I read ? his speech at the The D of C E . —Nothing worth seeing , except Schneider foh . she is so erood V \ and Clavton t the last anoears in

      an Strand awfull burlesque y stupid is piece rather , and funny is wretchedl . y supported . Oh , the Sir R t . —Anything worth reading anywhere ? The D of C e . —A little work called What Should we Drink is merely an advertisement of the Greek wines . John Sprouts is simply " Mrs . Brown" without even her at fun— Ox so for d is may the imagine essence how of dull sillynes the s affair . The is . magazines Boating Li are fe article nothing upon very the great " Beefsteak . Belgravia Club awfull , " which y stupid is simp —especiall ly nauseous y an . of The the au dreariest thor serves and up most for the venerable reader's of amusemen Joe Millerisms t (?) half . -a- These dozen club witticisms ! The (?) present are given members as a specimen of the " B of . S the . " should brilliancy prosecute of the the som author e crude lines libel b y Lon a m a on n si Society gning h worse imself than "Blanc bad— Bee especially . " It's View something " serie about s ( written the "Zoo by Arthur , " and is a simp 'Beckett ly one , I of think the ) " out Dissolving of the Leaaer is better , spoilt than usual and turned —an article into halting by Meason rhyme far . irom The Broadway bad . St . Pau is up l's to has its a average funny . article And upon now private I " think theatricals I ' ve told and you Tins all t l he ey few news men . Answe in Ab r yssinia me one ? question : How is it that you lost so Sir The R x ( smiling C ) . e — . — Wh Theodore y , we had ? only one thing to fear .

      ¦ Sir R t . —No , that the troops would die of laughing at the jokes of the Tomahawk ! write The for D it myself OF . C I alway E . s — answer Oh , ain the ' t it acrostics good . in I should the " Maniac like to ' s Column , " under the title of— ( whispers to SIR R T . ) Sir R T . —Not really ? been The very D good OF I will C stand E . — you Yes , a I ' seat do , to but see come Schneider , as you . have ( Exeunt to the Pit of the St . James ' s to see "La Grand Ditchesse" )

      Music Hath Charms ?

      MUSIC HATH CHARMS ?

      There Has Been A Good Deal Of Grumbling ...

      There has been a good deal of grumbling on the part of musical enthusiasts , not to say of the public at large , at the very meagre support vouchsafed by Royalty to the late Handel pense Festival , large . Although enough not a state onl - y box to was contain prepared the whole , regardless of our Royal of exfamily , but all the Royal families of Europe in a body , only on the one concert occasion s , was and it then tenanted only . during The Princess the second Louis part of Hesse of one on of the last day , honoured the Crystal Palace with her presence , but the visit was evidently one of duty rather than of pleasure , and with this exception no " Royalty" came near the place . honestl The grumblers y be urged grumble as an , too extenuating , all the more circumstance because it that cannot our the Princes occasion and of Princesses -Madame are Schneider unmusical 's debut in th s . ei t r the tastes St . , James for on ' s every august personage within hail of London was present at the performance . Moreover , for two consecutive Saturdays dinary the Prince opera of concert Wales , with at the a Crystal large party Palace , has ; true attended , on both the occa or- - sions the entertainment concluded with a display of fireworks , but Patti and Mario were listened to none the less attentively on that account . Is it that a triennial Handel Festival is a little too much ? We fear there is no doubt about it . Handel has been voted a bore , and Offenbach has cut him out .

      Thimble-Rig.

      THIMBLE-RIG .

      Sulting In Private His Enemies Life When...

      sulting In private his enemies life when , and a man boasting takes about to cajoling his own his mora friends l reck , in - - however lessness , , Society as a public is quickl man y , down do thing on s him a . good He deal is cut worse . Let than him , these , and a very different fate awaits him . He becomes the hero of millions , and his unscrupulousness at most excites but a laug court h . a civil He may war , sow and the plunge seeds his of dissolution country to of the a great very neck empire in , blood , but people will tolerate him all the same . Let him be vice only versd caustic t and and he funny , set call the great world things on fire by before little he names will , and unpopular . This , at may all events , is the way of things in England grow , hon and our it . is not very complimentary to British dignity , sense or By a natural and easy transition from such reflections one " finds Old oneself DizzyV asking Possibl the y those question who , Wh hav y e made is Mr . th Disraeli at remarkable called statesman ' s career their study can answer it entirely to their own satisfaction . For the moment we have nothing to say . As , however , " the man of the day" has gone to the very extent damned of his own his rope opponents in the about matter as of roundl self-congratulation y as is consistent , and with has his position as Premier , we have merely to call attention to the status quo . An empire riven irom end to end on the deadliest of all issues—a religious one . An Upper House in collision with the representatives of the people , and that by an ominously large majority . An act of simple justice dangled before the eyes of held five millions . It is of of course men ripe a great for revolution satisfaction —dang to know led , and that then , as with a set - off against this condition of things , a Tory Government have had ample opportunity of filling their own pockets and those of their perhap friends s to be able and to to those chuckle who heartil relish y over the joke the , it fact is something that " Old Dizzy has been at it again . "

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), July 11, 1868, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_11071868/page/9/