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APRIL otu, 1885. NO. 119. 1155 Broapway, NEw York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, ro cents, Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., 50 cents per number ; Vol. II., 25 cents per number; Vols. III. and IV., at regular ‘rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. Notice is hereby given that no person is authorized to solicit | subscriptions or advertisements for this paper without written authority from the publishers. (2 One dollar per copy will be paid at this office for Nos. 7 and 10 of Lire. Copies must be in good condition and may be sent by mail. CONTEMPORARY asks : Why don’t the Hunt clubs ! come together and organize a good strong cavalry regiment, combined with or without the Hussars? And says further: The majority of their members are experienced and trained horsemen, and of unexceptionable social position, and a little concert of action could produce from the ma- terial in them a cavalry regiment that would be an honor and an ornament to the city and State. The above is a very good suggestion, which it is hoped | these hunters of unexceptionable social position will act upon. The pride and glory of the nations of Europe are their cavalry regiments, and it is but right that we too should have ours, especially as those who should compose the corps are already specially endowed by nature with that innate com- ponent of the perfect Hussar, unexceptionable social posi- tion, We tremble to think of the terror a veteran cavalry corps of an European nation would evince when, in case of an invasion of our country, it were met on the battery by the leaders of New York society decked out in full hunting costume. What a sanguinary conflict would ensue between the body- guard, for instance, of the Emperor William and a company of the Mounted Social Life Guards, under the command of a popular leader of the German. And, to use a slang term, would n’t it beat the Dutch the way the foreign invader would scamper back to his native clime when he beheld the imposing front of the Dude Con- tingent, every man sucking the top of his sword and saying in clarion tones: Now you go home. You atn't in sasstety. Add to this the extraordinary mental qualifications which | are needed to give a man unexceptionable social position | in New York, and the vision of our country's future awe- inspirers to foreign invaders becomes terrible to contem- plate. Yes, indeed! together and organize ? - Why don’t the hunt clubs come . . APTAIN WILLIAMS claimed recently that he had endeavored to suppress all gambling in his district. In what district was it that one leader of New York | society slapped the face of another leader of New York society, for calling him a thief and a scoundrel, when playing whist for five dollars a point? ° * . UR European friends need not compliment themselves on having a monopoly in the traffic of war. The way we bustle up over the knocking of Colon into a | semi-Colon shows that we are not to be trifled with, even if we sink our Navy. True, our representative at the scene had no ammunition other than blank saluting cartridges to pour into the rebel horde, but an American salute, backed by the possibility of the Zal/apoosa's arrival, was sufficient to quell a howling mob. . . . HE season of self-denial is over, and we again “ swear on” the vices for which we were noted before the Lenten season began. A retrospective view of Lent is certainly consoling to those who have stuck to their vows. The man who has denied himself the privilege of ten cigars a day, with naught but the consolation of twenty cigarettes, no doubt feels much surer of a clement hereafter than the one who makes up his mind to be moderate all the year round. The young girl who has given up dancing and dinners for six weeks, and devoted her time to such charitable enterprises as badminton and progressive euchre, undoubtedly has a large load of sin lifted from her conscience. The father of the family, who has made a special effort to get tochurch once a week, and wish he was home all the time he was there, has an idea that some of his dark little business transactions are more likely to be overlooked at the final accounting because of the forty days of self-punishment. The mother, who has sworn off Worcestershire sauce and comedy for tomato catsup and Irving, walks her way with a holier than thou cast of countenance, which shows just how | she feels about her future. And so it is with all. Those of us who have had no desire to swear off anything, have eased our conscience by strict attention to religious duties. Others, who have deprived themselves of something of which they were very fond, have taken up other things equally pleasant, and the only real sinner who cannot find comfort in the closing of the season of self-denial, is he who has been accustomed to do so little of everything that there was nothing for him to give up, comicbooks.com