Puck — February 5, 1879 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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DISSIPATION. PART I. And consoles himself with a hair of the dog Most of the Punch is in the gentleman on itn mC | ii i But a super-sensitive tail is a bad thing for a Babe Monier taking 9 look, at the rest. monkey who goes too deeply into the rum- punch business. It was Ovid who said that we ought to check | J HH : the beginning of evil. AUD SMT But that monkey had never read Ovid. This was bad for Ovid. Because blowing on it affords but a partial But it was worse for the monkey. _ relief. And no human being can tell how it The beginnings of evil, in this instance, | hurts to have a burn on a two-foot tail, in the didn’t taste badly. tenderest part of the quarter-stretch. \ YEOH toute" And in a short time conceived a decided lik- There is balm in Gilead, however. ing for ram-punch, The monkey feels a little better. Here endeth the first lesson. And then turns a somersault, regardless of So he went to work systematically. consequences. OTHELLO.—A TRAGEDY. sational. A respectable young woman is brutally, | of one Cassio. He came to Venice, which was —— coarsely murdered in the presence of a supposed | what Paris is now, the city of pleasure, the gay By WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. audience, merely because she lost an old hand- | capital of Venus—hence its name, Venice. kerchief given to her husband by an old Egyp- | Fact. Othello at the opening of the play, like [From the Bladensburg Post—Hon. Esau Bulligator, | tian! We ask boldly, is this an adequate, esthe- | most carpet-baggers, had just been guilty of a Sole Editor and only Proprietor.) tic cause for a classic tragedy? A handkerchief | theft, and was caught in the very first act. He is, of course, an essentially vulgar object, and | had stolen Mr. Senator Brabantio’s only daugh- Book Reviews. art should always avoid the vulgar, the common: | ter, the old gentleman having forgotten to lock Tus work, sent us by the Messrs. Hopper | place. But let us give a brief synopsis of the plot. | his front hall-door. If there be any moral in & Co., is gotten up in their usual elegant style | Othello, a Moor, comes to Venice in search of ; this tragedy, it is the danger a white girl incurs as to binding and large clear type, and reflects | an office, and, by his colossal assurance, gets | in being deluded into a marriage with one of vast credit on that enterprising firm. We praise | one. He is said to have been of noble, aye, even | colored character. The elopement scene is them. It is not absolutely necessary that one | of royal origin, but we only have his word for | wretchedly mismanaged, almost as much so as should be able to read Sanscrit in the Asiatic | this. He had no letters as to character, and | some of our theatres. There are no details, no original, or to decipher the hieroglyphics of | gave no references at his boarding-house. He | rope-ladders, no waiting gondola in the dark Nilotic obelisks, in order to understand this | may have left a wife and half-a-dozen assistant | shadow of the lordly palace—or palazzo, as ancient English author, though you might infer | wives at home, for he was a carpet-bagger—a | they say in Italy—no richly turbaned Moor to as much from reading some of his commenta- | Morocco carpet-bagger. And though he said | lure with cooing amorous voice to clasping arms, tors. As to the moral of this play we regret to | he was a Moor, he was in fact an African, and | Fatal defect. Error of past centuries. Evidently * that it is thoroughly bad. And we say this | therefore a colored man. He had a strawberry | the author had never been in Venice, and thus Ne risk of disagrecing with our brother | mark on his left handkerchief, which seems to | knew not the Sppsceunities to elope artistically, ja two hemispheres. It is sickeningly sen- ! have been left by a designing person in the room | Art leaves something to the imagination. Art comicbooks.com