MAYENNAISE VERSUS MAYONNAISE.
(Vide last Number of "Punch.")
Dear Punch, your praise Of Mayonnaise Is certainly most telling: But don't it seem That such a theme Deserves the proper spelling?
I sometimes look At a cookery book By A. Dumas, the younger; And find he says That Mayennaise (A certain cure for hunger)
Should be spelt so; Not with an o, But like Mayenne, that city, Whose siege's fame Supplied the name Mis-spelt now; more's the pity
Maybe D's right, Although it might Be just a yarn he's telling. So hope your bard Won't be too hard And simply "D" my spelling.
'Tother Way About.—Mr. Le Gallienne says, epigrammatically, that "Beauty is the smile on the face of Power." Humph! Gallant Mr. Punch prefers to put it the other way, and say "Power is the smile on the face of Beauty!" Surely that is equally true. But it's a poor rule (or paradox) that won't work both ways.
Motto most Practical for all who are compelled to Travel constantly in our Metropolitan Public Conveyances.—"In Omnibus Caritas."
OUR DECADENTS.
Algy. "What's the matter, Archie? You're not looking well!"
Archie. "You wouldn't look well, if you'd been suffering from Insomnia every Afternoon for a Week!"