Puck — August 15, 1877 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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1. M.le Professeur Aristide Hippolyte Blanc has come to Vassar to teach the young ladies the art of elocution “on ze systéme Delsarte.” “ Zis ees Contemplation. M. Marius on of Car-r-r-rtazhe.” + ze Tain FITZNOODLE IN AMERICA. XXI. SARATOGA~—IIL. Ya.as, you see I am aw still at Sar- | watoga, and man- | age to kill time tol- erwably fairly. Everwybody i hotel here is c: a guest—doosid widiculous to call a fellaw a guest when he has to pay gweenbacks to the landlord for his wooms and wine and pwog. A_gweat many people have | the horwible habit of eating in the middle of the day for dinnaw. I simply can't do it. So after I’ve taken some luncheon, we aw take a dwive, ‘There are not an extwaordinarwy num- ber of woads to dwive on, or places to dwive to. ‘Iwo or thrwee miles fwom the hotels, on a verwy wough and uninterwesting woad, there is a lake, and a wefweshment-saloon near it. Fellaws go there and eat fwied potatoes—cur- wious custom—and dwink champagne. By the way, talking of champagne, Amerwicans call | wine champagne. If a fellaw says he thinks | betways. PUCK. THE PROFESSOR OF « You see, Mesdemoiselles, ze action must be suit to ze word!” « Ze calm grandeur of dess-s-spair. Ze dernier Mohiquan.” A glass of dwy champagne is all verwy well; but asa wule it's only fit for wo- men and childwen. He-ah it’s dwunk in a | most weckless manner. ‘There are two or thrwee scrwew steamers which steam about the lake, which is of fwesh water, and fellaws can take twips in them. I dwove tandem to this place, and people on the woad looked as if they'd nevah seen anything like it before. I take a west when I weturn to the hotel, and then dwess for dinnah, which we have at a pwivate table — couldn't weally put up with people who stuff their table-napkins down their necks, and make their thrwoats and mouths sheaths for knives—a sort of Indian sword-twick, yer know. I am told it is in weal- ity the national Amerwican pwactice. After dinnah we stwoll about a little more, can girls of the wepublican arwistocwacy, pwin- cipally danghters of fellaws in some kind of twade, Jack Carnegie said that a gweat many of these young women were desperwately anx- ious to be intwoduced aw to me. I dessay they are, Still, after all, yer know, I can sometimes fwitter away a wearwy hour or so in talking to the soft Amerwican cweatures, and listening to their pwattle. | In the evening there is dancing in the ball- he'll take some wine, the waitaw always bwings champagne. What horwible ignorwance this majorwity of fellaws wear shooting-jackets to | hop in- as they call it. and I find I’m obliged to talk to some Amerwi- | wooms; but, yer know, I aw don’t dance. The | 6. “Ze dying Gladiateur!” No further representations this season. | looks wather jolly at night when the moon -is bwight, and all that sort of thing, and the lamps are glimmerwing and_shimmer- wing on the verwandahs, and people wander about pwomiscuously among the differwent | hotels, I want to say something about the cwowd at Sarwatoga—'ai pollo, yer know, and what appears to aw interwest them. A mem- | ber of the Amerwican New York State House | of Lords is a doosid queer-looking sort of | fellaw. He has something to do with waces and a club. I feel tired now, so shall take | some bwandy-and-sodah and go to bed, and may make more wemarks about Sarwatoga at a future perwiod. A STATESMAN HEARD FROM. ‘THe Free-Soil party held a meeting at Downer’s Landing, Mass., on the gth inst. | ‘To the 12 men of '48, there congregated, the following letter from John G. Whittier was read. It was in prose: “Greeting To THY MEN oF “48: Thanks toa Divine Providence which has enabled’ us to see the end for which we labored 30 years ago. The slave States are free. Let us draw them closer to us by a generous con- fidence and kind offices. When the word “offices” reached the ears of Charles Francis Adams, he leapt seven. feet into the air, and exclaimed: ‘ Why was I not ‘ told of this before ?” comicbooks.com