Puck — February 19, 1879 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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PUCK. No. 13 Noxrit Wr.1aM Strzet, New Yorx. VOR SALE BY ALL NEWS DEALERS. Terms To SuBscRIBERS. WARZMANN. .-H, C. BUNNER. ~ SPE CIAL NOTICES. Sale ia London, at the News deeney of Messrs. HENRY a GILLIG & CO. fine and BUTE WILEMBR & ROGERS NEWS COMPANY, tr oct verie Street, Fleet Street. We cannot undertake to retura seiected communications, and to this rule we can make no ex Remittances by Money Order, etc., are to be to Kerrier & SCHWARZMANN. Our advertising friends are only required to pay bills apremated onthe bilneads 9 ocr ‘with our stamp mereessxD KEPPLER & SCHWARZMANN. Purchasers of one or more copies of Puck remitting sums under ‘$1.00 are requested to send the amount in postage stamps rather than ja fractional currency. ads PUCK’S PANTHEON. ‘The next figure in Puck's Parrwton will be WM. M. EVARTS, CONTENTS, The L-1-E-derkrant. oor, but Asthetic, Barbery Bhat we Eat and Drink. re ES Sete. snane lligator on Negro My Faye (poem) “A. Host —Filis M. Clarke. Frrenoopes Sen Puck's QUESTIONS: LXXVI. Pucx’s History ov Ometanp. ‘When you have been on a Lark lus. ‘The Theatres. Axswaxs ror rw Arxous. ‘Poem.—Young Brig- | The Body of a Bankru | Pocx’s Kecuunons. ‘Conk Allat the Magwersde—ies APuzsler's ham. THE L-I-E-DERKRANZ, You spell it And pronounce it with a de: And when you goto the Liederkranz, Take along with you your sisters and your cousins and ‘your aunts. He did. He took them all—especially his cousins— and they were a numerous and beautiful crowd. They filled the big Academy on Thursday night, not simply from pit to ceiling; but from the dome to the saloons under the floor; and from ten o'clock in the evening to four o’clock in the adjoining morning, they got as much enjoyment out of the occasion as was com- patible with the managing committee’s stern regard for the proprieties. ra is very difficult, even now, to write ina “consecutive and consistent style about the Lie- derkranz Ball. And if there is one subject in the treatment of which a brilliant incoherency is permissible, that subject is this subject. ‘This remark must serve as an apology for the premature production of a statement which haps should be made further on in this article and properly led up to. But we wish to express our firm conviction that the Germans, as Liederkranz Ballers, have an immense advantage over the native popula- tion. This country is a great and a good country, it is strong in morals and pumpkin- pie and inventive genius; but it doesn’t pan out well in the item of legs. ‘The true American gamb runs to beanpole. It is built on the billiard-cue principle. As to beauty and imposing appearance, it is a beastly failure. Whereas the Teutonic leg is a healthy and well-developed article, well calculated to out all the subtle and delicate beauty of of yellow tights. mce, in part, the success of the Lieder- kranz. It was able to draw on the German element for the full amount of leg necessary to a masked ball. And the draft was honored. ‘The ball was formally opened with a tableau and procession only more brilliant and wonder- ful than the description thereof in the Lieder- kranz Gazette, All this artistic circus was under the charge of Mr. Joseph Keppler, the Atlas on whose shoulders rested a world of Satyrs, Fawns, Bacchantes, Coryphées, Pages, Swedes, Hal- berdiers and all manner o! nondescript indi- viduality.. And when we think that Mr. Keppler was personally responsible for a couple of hundred pairs of legs; and take into considera- tion the vagaries that one simple pair is capable of, we cannot but admire the towering genius that drilled those naturally awkward legs into grace and precision, and made them a thing of beauty and a delight to the eye. Not but what Mr. Keppler had some pretty good material to work on. There was one coryph—but no matter. How superior is the foreign conception of enjoyment to the great Anglo-American idea of making a business of pleasure. Why can't we Yankees learn to put on a checker-board suit and a false nose and sail into a crowd and be irresponsibly jolly? Why can’t we? There is noapparent reason. One can readily see why John Bull could not do any- thing of the sort—because he is an English- man, And he himself has said it. And he thinks it a discredit to make, as he would say, a damn fool of himself. But if you can make adamn fool of yourself gracefully and naturally and artistically, you might as well try it that way. For you're sure to do it, at one time or another, in the plain old-fashioned style. Yes, the Liederkranz Ball was a success. Re- membering one delightful apartment, in a se- cluded corner of the house, where there ap- peared to be an inexhaustible fountain of cham- pagne and adorable Tyrolienne peasantesses, we can lay our hand on our heart and say that the Liederkranz Ball was a success. The press and committee rooms were good in their way; but remembrance holds especially dear that calm elysian retreat back of the proscenium arch. Brandy and soda is a miraculous combina- tion, considered as—but this is not the place for remarks of a general nature. Suffice it to say that Memory, with his opera hat rather on one side and his white tie two or three degrees northeast of his shirt-bosom, pur- sues into the world of shadows no more fond and fair and fleeting vision than the recollec- tion of the last Liederkranz Ball. SMILEY’S GOBBLER. Tuey had a raffle around at Wiske’s saloon Saturday night, and Smiley won the turkey, It looked plump and handsome, indeed, and he beamed all over when he handed it to Mrs. S. “We'll have it to-morrow, my dear, boiled, with oyster sauce.” “ We'll have no such thing, you infernal old idiot!" and she threw the fowl into the ash-box; then added with sarcasm as severe as an Alaska winter: “When you go to Wiske’s, my darling, you had better confine yourself to beer, of which you are an excellent judge, and leave poultry alone. Besides, if you must gamble, you shouldn’t play for such Aigh stakes.” Now that the gas companics—who certainly ought to know—have assured us that Edison’s Electric Light is entirely impratticable, we trust ‘Thomas will not obstinately waste further time upon it, but will turn his attention to the con- struction of some arrangement of springs, le- vers and grappling-irons, which will hold a newspaper firmly in front of you at the break- fast table, and turn its pages from you, the while you hold your cup of coffee in the one hand, and your buttered roll in the other, and spill the crumbs all over your lap. Puckerings. Assott’s so, /a, is heavenly: Remenyi's fiddle is of fine timbre. Tue charge of the Light Brigade—Gas bills. AN ex-pert—Petruchio’s Kate after marriage. Wuat sort of pain proceeds from a hat- rack ? Wuen on an ice-boat, N E wind will blow you south-west. THERE are no girls on the stage: one is either a gal or a guirrel. Do take 'em—both of "em, You can use an additional Sam and Him. A CORRESPONDENT writes to ask: “How can you bare this weather, Mr, Puck?” Wituews-j has not lost one iota in name as yet by the paragraphers poking fun at it. Grant is in Bombay. What could have Hindoostan ex-President to go there? Bos Incersout was too much in a rush when he considered Moses in the light he did. * Tere is a car on the Fast Mail of the N. Y. C. R. R. marked “ Gov. Beveridge." Roman Punch, we suppose. Have we not suffered enough Tilden and Pelton? No subject has been so much be- written since Mary's little lamb, and that too had a pelt on. Pelton might secure a happy engagement with Moody and Sankey, to the benefit of us Keep your face turned towards the glittering firmament, strain your eyes at the distant stars, and you will walk plump into every mud-puddle in your path, and stub your toes on every stone. There are several beautiful lessons to be de- rived from this, For instance—but choose your own moral. This is a free country. Some time ago an indignant Englishman wanted to know, you know, why Puck called H. B. M. “English Vick.” We cannot see anything disrespectful in that. Take old Aeneas, for instance. Whenever he met his sovereign mistress he would extend his right flipper and simply remark: “How Di-do?” It’s bad enough to receive from a Southern correspondent a premature ode to “ Spring,” and we throw it into the fire which we have just heaped up with fresh coals; but the fiendish in- genuity of the wretch could scarcely have sug- gested amore aggravating ag aggregation of insults —he has stuck the enclosed postage stamp so tightly to his letter, that we can’t possibly pull, soak or coax it off, Some people have no consideration at all. Ivotice. No. 9 (issue of May 7th, 1877), No. 14 (issue of Fune +h, 1877), No. 26 (issue of September sth, 1877), ond No. 56 (issue of April zrq 1878) of ** Puck” will be bought at this office, No. 13 North William Street, at 265 Cts, per copy, No's 82, 8gand 85 will be bought at pill price. comicbooks.com