Puck — November 27, 1878 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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xmehe-yermer 4 PUCK. No. 13 North William Street, New York. FOR SALE BY ALL NEWS DEALERS. Terms Jo Supscripers. k.osreatep py. JOS. KEPPLERA postwmss M, HWAKZMANN. {snes eames H.C. BUNNER: SPECIAL NOTICES! Puck will hereafter be on Sale in London, at the News Agency of Messrs. HENRY. F. GILLIG & CO., 449, Strand, Charing Cross. Amencans m Paris, hitherto reduced to ‘‘Punch."* Fun"? and **Judy."* will now find thelr natural paper on file at the “Herald” Office, 49 Avenue de I'Opéra. ‘We cannot undertake to return rejected communications, and ‘to this rule we can make no exception. ‘sey- Remittances by Money Order, etc., are to be addressed to Kerrier & SCHWARZMANN. gar Our advertising ‘friends are only required to pay bills presented on the biltheads of Puck, with our stamp mrnessep thereon. KEPPLER & SCHWARZMANN. full of trade-nickels, while the drunkard goeth out hungry and penniless, is not the way to make this country. a\**temperance”’ country. Perhaps it would be better if we dropped the noun temperance as an adjective and were ‘more grammatical, as well as more sensible, to be and to call ourselves ‘temperate’ men. The scenes of the t rrible examples whom Mr. Murphy parades before the public as brands saved from the burning of gin are not healthy, encouraging, nor do they forward the cause of temperance. But, Murphy, go on! A country which pays for the humbug of a Beecher, which rejoices in the antics of a Talmage, and selects Comstock as its art critic, will assuredly sup- port you in your temperance crusade at prices ranging from $75 to $300 per week, all expenses paid for you, your choir, and that boy—who ought to be at work. When these receipts fail, Bro. Murphy, there is always one resort left to you—you can Open a Bar-room. You know the biz. PUCK’S THANKSGIVING TURKEY. We wish you a Merry—what is it? No, a CONTENTS. Brother Murphy's Work Green Jones's Lottery Ticket— Pocx’s Thanksgiving Turkey. | “—illus Of Corset Is. The Mystery. Pucksxinos. The Seasons—poem. The Resurrection of the Body. | Eli Perkin’s Nowhere. Frrenoonty 1m Axanica, LXV, | Soste Sociat Frenps, See that My Grave's Kept ‘Ihe Fiend of the Button-hole, jean—poem. ‘The Theatres, The Great Sensation. Axswans rox Tee Axxiovs. Fashion's Follics—illus. Norice—Venv PaRTicuLaR. ‘The Raging Rinos-soreus —| A Portrait — poem,.— Mastex ‘poem. Tell Aunt Rhody—illus. ‘Stm-pex. Bianca. Post Mortem Luck. Grandfather's Clock (another one). Pucx’s Excnancas, BROTHER MURPHY'S WORK. Gree bless anybody who saves a drunkard from a drunkard’s grave! God bless Francis Murph—hold on, pen! We won't call down any blessings on Mr. Murphy for a few moments until we reflect a bit. To get drunk is bad; to be a drunkard is very much worse. To save a real live drunkard, is the noblest work of man. But it strikes us very forcibly that this i: what Mr. Francis Murphy does nof do. As far as heard from he is a man who encourages the Pees drunkard to sign a pledge, put a piece of ue ribbon on his coat and retire to the back- ground while the Brothers and Sisters shout “Amen, Hallelujah!” and the contribution- box is passed around for Bro, Murphy’s benefit. For first-class hotel board is expensive. Where wanders the drunkard? Homeless, with no food in his stomach, with no loving voice to encourage him to a new life, he has only his bit of blue ribbon to comfort him, In Binghamton, in this State, and in Boston, there are reformatories for inebriates where all love and kindness are shown the unfortunates who seek asylum there. And according to current reports the patient and earnest Superintendents of such institutions receive less remuneration in @ year than Mr. Murphy receives in a month, But they save their patients, while Murph: vertises his—and they advertise him. Which isvery much bullier for Murphy than for his terrible examples, In any city in this country a man can get good board and lodging for $6 pet week; $200 a year will clothe, hat, shoe and laundry any man; and in these hard times $1,000 per annum profit is ‘a healthy credit to one’s account. That sum totally amounts to something less _ than thirty dollarsa week. Now, if Mr. Murphy, " only wants to savejsoulsifrom. ito _ drunkard can entersthe kingdom of Heaven, Jet him go to work on this plan. To stuff his ‘stomach full of On toast, and his pockets Happy New Y—. No, what is it? O, Thanks- giving. Aha! That's it! We wish all our readers a jolly turkey and may good digestion wait on appetite. We have our own turkey that we have been carving for many months past; the work we have done upon him may be seen among his feathers, in his body, and in his head and neck. But Puck is generous. He doesn’t gobble his gobbler. He serves him up to the public. For the turkey is strong, and Puck has struggled hard to kill him. And his name is Humbug. As the year glides softly away into the tomb of years, and the bright and happy holidays approach, we hope that the Turkey which we kill on this Thanksgiving Eve may rest quietly in his grave. Hereafter, it is to be trusted that no crimes, no political frauds, no religious humbugs, no social wrongs, will be known among the American people. Then Puck will rest from his war @ foulrance and will merely publish pretty chromos and nice little funny pictures. But if the turkey comes to life again, and shakes his feathers of Hypocrisy to the breeze, we cry: ‘“ Have at ye, there!” and with pen and pencil shall do our devoir like a true knight. OF CORSET IS. BROOKLYN, Noy, 21, 1878. Dear Puck: I noticed in this week's issue of your very interesting and amusing paper quite a glaring error, and, as I supposed you were always anx- ious to correct mistakes, thought I would point it out to you. . Itisin the cartoon on the last page—that of ‘Charles the Fifth Entering Ant- werp.”). ‘The figure next the curtain’ has her corsets (please excuse my speaking plainly) out- side of her—other garment, while they are al- ways worn the other way, the latter outside the former. Please pardon my seeming want of delicacy in writing such a thing, but.I thought you ought to be told, and did not know who would tell you if I did not, Yours, A Lapy Wuo Apsures) or Puck, Puck is under great obligations.to his fair friend. He did not know this important fact. It could not be expected that he should, . He isan innocent and unsophisticated young man, and quite unmarried. What should he know of such) things? .Itis somewhat to his credit, in- deed, that’he was able to delineate correctly an article 0, unfamiliar to him.” Next time he will try to locace it rightly. Putkerings. “Russia says peace is her great object.” Yes—a piece of British India. Tue worm and the barrel-hoop are very much alike in this respect, that they turn when trod upon. Mr. Hurcert, of the World, has often been advised to Hire a Hall. We are glad to see he has done it. Tue Rothschilds are; one after another, be- coming Christians, This is in order that they may stay next season at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga. Woutpn'r it be well to name some of our ocean steamers ‘‘Incog.”? It would give ‘em so much business fur bankers and cashiers who like to go abroad that way, “A sort answer turneth away wrath,” but a tough anser turneth away the carving-fork, slides all over the dish, and covers the head of the family with gravy and confusion. Cot. InceRsoLt never tries to coerce his children; he lets them do just as they please. They can even come in and go out of the world according to their own sweet will. Jupcinc by the manner the “lady friends” of Mapleson's ‘ Don Giovanni" wade into the feast in the last scene of that opera, it is not déjeiner 4 la fourchette, but souper au couteau. Tue Danbury Mews wants to know the dif- ference between a turkey and Thanksgiving Day. Never knew of any difference between them. They always agreed well enough while we were around, Tue tender solicitude with which a mother cherishes her first-born is considerably less than nothing to the affectionate care which the bar- ber’s boy bestows on your silk hat just as you are about to leave the studio. Herr Avoust Witnetm), the celebrated violin virtwoso, has taken critical New York by storm, and is playing to large, refined and en- thusiastic audiences. Of course he is delighted. “Be virtuouso and you will be happy,” you know. Wuen Sammy was questioned as to why his engagement with Miss H. had been broken of, he rolled his eyes, looked very much pained, and groaned, “Oh! she turned out a deceiver.” But he forgot to mention that he was the de- ceiver whom she had turned out. Ir is most wickedly presumptnous to ques- tion the equity of laws fixed by an all-wise Providence; though they appear unjust, they are all meant for the best. And yet we know some worthy church members who wish that there was some palpable reason given for the immutable law which provides that a cat, fall- ing out of a third-story window, shall alight on its feet, while a baby, under similar’circum- stances, is bound to strike on its head. Tue sneak-thief came down like’a wolf’on the old, While.the"folks in the basement were dining, And"took from the rack a coat scarce three days old, Quite replendent in fine satin lining— Utterly ignoring the one left over from” last year, which Mr. Smiley had brought down, in- tend:ng'to sell it fur two dollars to the first old- clothes. man that.chanced around. comicbooks.com