“Come unto me, come unto me, my dear.”
Dress at the Curzon Wedding.
“Princess —— wore a black hat, a cloak of tailless ermine, and a black and silver toque.”—Daily Telegraph.
“Then came Mrs. —— in a dull golf hat.”—Daily Graphic.
As a protest, we suppose, against the other lady’s extravagance in wearing a couple of hats.
“John ——, a coloured man, was charged with using obscure language in Maria Street. The magistrates fined him 5s.”—Welsh Paper.
Most unfair! Lots of men do the very same thing in Parliament and get paid four hundred pounds a year for it.
Heading from pp. 516, 517 of Punch’s official rival, The Telephone Directory: