Gleefully Gaby Gliding, young as the youngest girl.
We may not laugh at our mothers, for (between me and you)
They can out-dance us often—get all our partners too.
THE "BUNNY-HUG"
Modern Youth (to Terpsichore): "My hug, I think." Mr. Punch: "My kick, I know!"
Matron v. Maid
This, however, was no new thing. It was only the latest manifestation of a "movement" which runs right through the social history of the whole of this period, and which may be alternatively described as the Emancipation or the Apotheosis of Middle Age. The earliest references to the change link it up with the coming of the New Woman. For example, in 1894, in a "Song of the Twentieth Century," Punch describes the man of the family as relegated to the shelf by his more energetic female relatives:—
Aunt Jane is a popular preacher,