Puck — December 31, 1879 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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696. PUCK. —- PUCK. Nos. 21 & 23 WARREN STREET. FOR SALE BY ALL NEWS DEALERS. Tzrus To Susscihinens dn the United States and Canada, a year, or $2 qumbers... Soy meres or sa numbers . ths, or 26 numbers --..- ths, or 13 oumbers Inctupme Post [WARZMANN, -H, C, BUNNER. SFECIAL NOTICES. Bp Remitrnces by Money Order, etc. are to be addressed to KEPPLER & SCHWARZMANN. ‘We cannot undertake to return rejected communications, and to this rule we can make no exception. treet: 15 Boulevard a Otice, 49 Avenue del" Germany at F. A. BROCKHAUS'S. Leipzig, Berlin Vienna. CONTENTS. ‘The New Light and the New | Shakspere Studi ‘Year. ‘A Prohibition Pe Pio-Money and Needle-Money. | American Art ‘The Irish Miich Cow. ‘The Belated Mosquito—poem. joliday Fashions, 1880—(No. | The Ash-Barrel Stampede—ill's. 11).—itlus, Where Indeed?—poe RINGS. | Let Us Get This Right. New Year's Reflections of Cap- | American Art. adura Hardtack, Esq. Coarse: but Correct. Prohibition Proverbs.—F. Blake Literary Notes. ion, The Theatres. Feesmoopis m Aummica— | Axswaxs ron Te Ayniovs. ‘No. CXX. The Adventures of Colonel Lie- A Uteral Construction —iltus,. | bi Lo Love's Bird-on (poem)— H.C. | Puc Dodge. The second edition of PUCK'S ANNUAL having been exhausted, we have now in pressa THIRD EDITION, which, we hope, will by ready by the first of next week, Keppcer & SCHWARZMANN, THE NEW LIGHT AND THE NEW YEAR. Tue great American Eagle feels very much inclined to spread its wings and scream to the full extent of its lung power at the actual posi- tive no-mistake-about-it completion of the long- waited-for Edison Electric Light, which is to make kerosene, gasmeters, camphene, gasoliers, chandeliers, and every other kind of lier, things of the past. It is a fit triumph for the New Year, and we have pictorially celebrated it in consequence. But stay—we must not bein too great a hurry —Mr. Edison may be wrong. We were disappointed once and may be again; so we will not crow too soon. Indeed ‘we won't crow at all or say more about it, but will simply wait for further developments which we fondly hope will prove that our suggestive cartoon is not so very far out, after all. PIN-MONEY AND NEEDLE-MONEY. EOPLE who have everything they want in the way of luxury rarely, we are sorry to say, even at this alleged happy season, bestow a0, extensive thoughts on the poor wretches who hardly earn enough to sustain life. Our cartoon with the above caption tells its own story. The half-starved needle-woman eee her scanty pay, often mercilessly scaled, m the bloated manufacturer or merchant. She cannot live on it, and ultimately the Potter's Field will prematurely claim her for its own. The rich employer, as he hands to his wife the plethoric pocket-book containing a goodly supply of pin-money to add to the enjoyment of life, entirely ignores the existence of the miserable needle-women to whom he has paid, perhaps, on that day their needle-money. Yet he will be honored and respected, and called a great and good man, and when he dies a noble monument will be erected to his memory. Yes, there is plenty of room for the exercise of charity in New York, There are demands for it on all sides, We Americans are not a mean people, we give freely—but too promis- cuously, We want our charities better organ- ized ; by which means many thousands of worthy sufferers might be enabled to extract some en- joyment from life. THE IRISH MILCH COW. RELAND and its turbulent inhabitants have very frequently given Puck inspiration, both for his pen and pencil. We have handled the subject without gloves, and have consequently said very disagreeable, though none the less true things. Yet we are almost inclined to commiserate the poor unfortunate country. It seems to fare worse at the hands of its so-called friends than at those of its avowed enemies. Its alien landlords squeeze all they can out of their poor unfortunate tenants, and do not pretend to make any bones about it, There is their property, and it must be made to pay if possible, The tenant knows what he has to expect. But it is the praste and the political agitator who are perpetually milking the poor Irish cow under pretence of being its friend. First money is wanted for a local church, then Peter’s-pence for His Holiness the Pope. Now it is for a “skirmishing fund;” and again to pay the expenses of some ruffianly Fenian, or unprincipled, though perhaps enthusiastic agitator, whose only object is to aggrandize himself, entirely regardless of the confiding bog-trotter whose last penny he has perhaps taken for the purpose. Mr. Parnell would do well to ponder on our remarks before endeavoring to get up any ex- citement here on this Irish business, We have a great deal too much of it, as it is at all times. HOLIDAY FASHIONS, (880. Puck's New Year's Hat. Puckerings. * * Bappy NEW Yenr! Shall we not rather praise His lot who, bent with weary weight of days, Creeps slowly to the dusk wherefrom he came, Beyond the reach of mortal praise or blame? The one we crown with roses, hail with songs, Must bear the burden of our woes and wrongs: Ah! happier he for whom the sting is past Of our ingratitude—the happier Last! * * * Wauiskey tod-dy—headache to-morrow. Cincinnatr’s striking packers refuse to “go the whole hog.” We wish Governor Garcelon a Happy New Year—and we hope he may get it. Mr. Cyrus Anpre Fiexp has gone to Eu- rope, to arrange for his spring importation of notabilities. Epison’s Electric Light may triumph in the end; but the Governor of Maine will gas so long as they'll let him. Mr. Crericat E, Stoucuton is to be suc- ceeded by a new U. S, Minister to Russia. We don’t want Van Zandt at all. Boucicautt has been ordered South, We bought some lots in Kerguelen'’s Land, once upon a time, which are very much at Mr. B.'s service, if he will build and take up permanent _ residence. The Present Century, in its issue of last week, seems to know more about Puck than Puck knows about himself; but we have very little reason to find fault with either compliment or criticism, coming from such 2 good-looking and well-edited paper. A PHILADELPHIA man, astray in New York during the last storm, gazed for half a day at the Trinity Church clock, whose hands, weighed down by the falling snow, revolved at the rate of one lap in six hours. Finally, when he had taken it all in, he said softly: ‘‘ This carries me back to Philadelphia.” WE wish we could turn out a little of the reg- ulation gush about 1880; but we really can’t. These New Years are getting stale, so to speak. They are overdoing the business. If they want to be noticed, they have got to make them- selves less cheap, and not come so often as once every twelvemonth. ‘here is a decided reform called for in this direction. Now, young man, three things: Don't put on your evening dress before 6 Pp. m, to-morrow. It is nof good “form”; it is simply vulgar. If you are afraid that people will think you haven’t a swallow-tail, pin a card on your frock-coat announcing your possession of that valuable article, Don't drink in every house that you enter. Nobody will press you to do so, except ill-bred people; and you certainly don’t wish to drink with ill-bred people. Don't say ‘‘ Hap’ Ne’ Year!” to everybody you see, The sentiment is not novel or orig- inal. And by talking pleasantly, naturally and sensibly, you may make this day of conven- tional “calling” less of a bore to the ladies whom it is supposed to honor, Moreover: Study Puck's ANNvAL, article Fitznoodle, for further hints on proper behavior. 4 comicbooks.com