Life — February 18, 1886 — page 12: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Maid (who has just been discharged): 1°D MAKE HIM PROPOSE TO-NIGHT, MA'AM; YOU AINT GOT NO TIME FOR FOOLIN'—AT YOUR AGE, FOREIGN ITEMS. R. PARNELL understands the Irish as thoroughly as if he had been born ‘and raised in America. Tess sentiment is opposed to the admission of Tammany members to the future Irish Parlia- ment, F the Greeks go to war, they will probably conscript their mu- tilated classic statues ; and this may lead to another grand Cesnola Res- toration, HE London Punch had an obituary notice of Alfonso’s death, but the Queen took it for a | joke and laughed herself into a fit, ME, X., who had just lost I her husband, was receiving the consolations of a lady friend. “Come! my dear! a little reason. | One should bear up against sorrow. Take courage!" “Oh! do not alarm yourself, my dear,” groaned the widow, wiping her eyes. “In reality I am quite resigned. But you know my nerves —a mere nothing upsets them !" FROM THE FRENCH. HE other evening a theatre party, rather literary in character, attended a performance by Modjeska. A popular poet-critic, who was present, seeing two well- developed and somewhat mature females beneath boys’ cos- tumes, come upon the stage, inquired of his lady companion as to what rd/es they were supposed to fill. “ Why, those are pages,” was the reply. “ Pages?” retorted the critic. ‘I should call them whole, volumes.” ° . * PARIS journal gives the following description of the new style of “dude” that has recently appeared in the French capital, and has taken the place of the pschutteux and gommeux. The name décarre means, literally, a “na- tural” in music, as distinguished from a flat or a sharp: “A man is d¢écarre when he dresses at half-past six in the evening and goes out. The dé¢carre has pointed shoes, At table, it is décarre not to open one’s mouth unless for the purpose of putting something into it.” He wears tight pants and a very open white vest. He only wears one glove, on the left hand, and no jewelry. The bécarre is sedate, very erect, very grave, very English and very tightly laced. His shirt collar is very high and stiff and encircled with a narrow cravate tied in a knot. He permits himself a mustache, but no whiskers, The décarre never sups; he retires early in order to be able to rise early and take horseback exercise in the Bois. It is not déarre to be gay and expansive. On the contrary, concentration is the distinctive sign of the genus. IN ARCADY. E walked that day in Arcady | When woods were green and meadows gay, In fine it was we found the way To Arcady, to Arcady. And now, though flower-time is by And coldly gleams a winter sky, Yet still we walk, my love and I, In Arcady, in Arcady. | WE HAD A VERY FINE MALTESE. CAT PRESENTED TO US LAST WEEK, B.W.G. | 1LustRAation GIVES A FAINT IDEA OF OUR BACK FENCE ON ST, VALENTINE'S Day. AND THE ABOVE comicbooks.com