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August 20, 1892, by Various

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Title: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, August 20, 1892

Author: Various

Release Date: February 14, 2005 [EBook #15049]

Language: English

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PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 103.

August 20, 1892.

AD PUELLAM.

["Detective cameras have become favourite playthings with
ladies of fashion."--_Ladies' Paper_.]

You used to prate of plates and prints
And "quick developers" before,
In spite of not unfrequent hints
That these in time become a bore;
But then this photographic craze
Seemed little but a foolish fad,
While now its very latest phase
Appears to me distinctly bad.

Since even your devoted friends
At sight of you were wont to fly,
You manage still to gain your ends,
And photograph them on the sly;
The muff, the cloak with ample folds,
The parcel, and the biscuit-tin,
I know that each discreetly holds
Detective lenses hid within.

Should CROESUS greet you with a smile,
A "bromide" will record the fact;
Should STREPHON help you o'er a stile,
The film will take him in the act.
Yet this renown, if truth be said,
Is fame they'd rather be without;
Nor, I assure you, will they wed
A lady photographic tout.

* * * * *

ANTIQUITY OF GOLF.

That Golf was a game probably known to and played by pre-Adamite Man
(whoever he may have been; name and address not given) is evidenced by
the learned Canon TRISTRAM's observation in the Biology Section of
the British Association Meeting last week, to the effect that "he (the
Canon) had never seen a better collection of these Links connecting
the present with the past world." This must be most interesting to all
Golf-players.

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[Illustration: NOT MEMBERS OF "BRITISH ASSOCIATION."

_First Passenger_ (_reading Morning Paper_). "'PSYCHICAL CHARA