Hostess: "And do you really believe in Christian Science?"
Visitor: "Well, you see, I've been getting rather stouter lately, and it's such a comfort to know that I really have no body!"
Sabbatarianism gave Punch little or no chance, save for a mild protest against the action of the L.C.C. with regard to the Queen's Hall Concerts in 1898. The change is accurately reflected in the opening lines:—
Ah! County C., why stop our glee?
For bigotry is dead;
The broader mind can nowhere find
Remotest cause to dread
An instant fall of scruples all
If Sunday's gloom should flee;