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    TH E TOMAHAWK: A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SAT...

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    No. 71.] LONDON, SEPTEMBER 12, 1868. [Pr...

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    WOMAN AND HER MISTRESS.

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    No I.—Concerning "the Greatest Plague in...

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    Th E Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sat...

    TH E TOMAHAWK : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE" INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PRETERIT . "

    No. 71.] London, September 12, 1868. [Pr...

    No . 71 . ] LONDON , SEPTEMBER 12 , 1868 . [ Price Twopence .

    Woman And Her Mistress.

    WOMAN AND HER MISTRESS .

    No I.—Concerning "The Greatest Plague In...

    No I . —Concerning " the Greatest Plague in Life . " in which Everybody John Leech remembers satirized with the del affectations ight the of humourous " servant-galism pictures . " with Eyerbod anything y who has deli had ght , to what emp sad loy truth " servant lay behind gals " that remembers humour , . thing It is much towards to be abolishing doubted abuses whether . One Leech very ' s satire requisite ever element did any of - satireparticularly in this of rhinoceros-hided morality

    perseverance so irrepressible , he certainly a quality possessed , th age at it . threw But a geniality sunshine was over in him the , abolish in darkest fact , the p the ictures abuse satire of that human was provoked so foll char y and ming it . wickedness , one scarcel which y wished he drew ; This — - ' - — — — ' by " ~— f the ^^^ ^^ way w w » 1 ; j but w V ¦ * _ ¦ certain ^^ V M _ ¦ « _ ^ _ ^ it ^ is Jb _^ that ** Wy _» servant _*^^ Jb W _^» » _ _ ¦ girls > M *^ *_* cy are f * ^^ none A _ ^^ 4 * ^^

    the garity better , insolence for all , John and dishonesty Leech ' s powerful . sketches of their vulthe This day . question It is not is limited one of the to most such important narrow interests social as questions the com of - lodgers fort of and householders bachelors . and It is heads a most of seriou families s question —we for may those add who , of welfare profess to of be women so violentl . Domestic y concern service ed for is the the ph one ysical great , and branch social , whether of industry in the which higher lies grades open , without of house any -keeper restrictions , nurse , , confidential to women ;

    kitchen adviser adviser - of of maid the the , and toilet toilet drudge chamber chamber -of- . , all & & -work c c . , or or . in in Those the the lowest lowest philanthropists grades srrades of of , whose and ears hearts dail are encounter wrung by know the hideous that from sorrow irls that in service their eyes the ranks of the vicious y and the , miserablewho g infest our streets large are hourl clas y s of recruited our fellow . How -creature to raise s is a the , very moral difficult status problem of this , , solve but one . which everyone , who has any humanity , must yearn to The The education ordinary —she servant # - sses girl is is just not a enough very elevated to enable ¦» «• creature her to .

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    the light light equalled vigour iin n the the by and Reformed Reformed their apparent futility Church Church solemnity and , , real fo for r of if blasp her yo vou u protestations he acc accuse my us . e h her e The r of of are a a fate fa fault only ult of ., oath Ananias is so and sacred Sapp , b ut ra she she can invok clench es with a lie frantic with it . readiness Yet she has no and one she redeeming shows her point fondness —she is by very cramming fond of dogs both with and babi the un es -

    poison wholesomest them . stuff she can , her notion of kindness being to herself mistaken Her great dumb for ambition a and lady then ; to is invisible effect , when which she . No goes end man she out can oug of a look ht Sunday first at to her , make to but be looked she immediatel atand , does y beg not ins take to g the iggle initiative , if , indeed by , sni she ggering waits , which to be b she lind takes that , for modest an expression y pulls down of modesty to show , whereas she is not it at is the home sort . of If worthless

    soldier she is ug who ly , trades she buys upon her the young only soldierlike man , probably thing a about him , her his uniform with , gaudy ; or bonnets , if she , is and pretty sham , perh jewell aps ery her . young The more man ambi buys - tious and sham are sensible millinery enoug , and h insist to know upon the having difference everything between just real like their them known mistress with to them wage , real selves s of lace . twelve , Few real of or kid this fourteen -gloves latter , & pounds c kind . How stay a-year they in , service is obtain best long ; or rather , they give a month ' s warning on the the the slightest

    provocation vocation in black . , , and and take take a a long Ions en engagement gagement with with --, , gentleman gentleman not This a true may one see . m It a is hard a fearful and thing cruel to picture see the ; we sewer wish of vice it were fed to from shake streams our heads that should at the be icture pure as what crystal can . we It do is to not mend enoug it h ? do What to rescue can all the , whether wretched heads p silly of creatures families , who or simp are drifting individuals to the ,

    and dark dark alas ocean ocean ! drowned where where so so in many manv vain of of ; for their their thoug sisters sisters h their hav have e whitened been been drowned drowned bones ,. lie It on , is the at their shore home , yet no when one heeds they have their one warning in the . fullest sense of the word , that the , foundation of all girls' moral charactersand girls vanity , more is than the boys result , — of must the be injudicious laid . Much encouragement of this affectation , which well meaning parents give their farmer daughters house , to in desp the ise their

    there as station their are in own the life kitchen old . Go couple into the bright any father and is clean to ' s bed , but earl plain and and country homel earl y ; such ev cleaning and erything parents always , scrubbing herself must working — have cooking everywhere ; ; frugal the mother the , industrious , never dinner watchfull above , attending children any y y superintending labour . to Ask the up ; surel dairy them y y , , portrai about their t of a children young man —their , dressed faces just glow like with a gentleman honest pride , is ; John that , " of He learning is up in —an Lunnon d that , ' s Jane ! he ' that doing fine very u well , lady and has would a deal you

    like So you to see go Jane , and s ' ee room Jane ' s room Oh , . And ' instead afraid yong , of she th , e neat ' t mind un . " - pretending cheap orname clean nts ness not pretending the old folks to be ' room anything , with but its common common trashy and cheap picture , you find , false taw jewellery dry curtains , everything , Brummagem pretending toilet fittings to be , cence something and grander reaching , and nothin costlier g further than it than is , aiming vulgar ostentation at magnifi- . ad Poor miration , peop that le ! li it hts is hard their i to good check faces *** mv ^ the rm * they honest think ________ smile these of

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Sept. 12, 1868, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_12091868/page/1/