Show mr Pun punchs clis jubilee new york 1 ork tribune fifty years ago there came full gr thrown own into this vale of teara tears the laughing gainni grinning ng hunchback whose familiar features made ira im mortal by the inspired pencil of richard doyle have shone on us every week of these in the famous frontispiece of punchy punch 0 oc C the london charipar Cha charivari nobody cares for second titles now unless indeed mr gilbert who has an all odd fancy that way and the good 0 natured rogue has long since rid himself of the strange alias he bor rowed from paris as well as of the rough tricks and manners ascribed to his italian original As a briton and a it householder with mr to hia his name only his solemn dog toby is left to remind him of the ancient and mythical days and nights when he cultivated the wild oat on the sunny slope of theA the andt and thought houg t it fun full to beat his wife the ho luckless judy to to tos s the baby out of the window to wallop the family doctor and craftily to hang the common hang man all to the te squeaking of cracked pipes since he lie took up his abode in historic fleet street where dr samual johnson mada made the sorry jest in latin on tho the traitors heads and where his ghost is is still stil supposed to walk 0 nights mr punch ha has found or made Boad ohis his fun in in other ways four pour gen generations crati of prime ministers stera and aud lesier mi ministers anter of ex ministers and would be ministers of fops and flunkies flun kies of frauds and dribbles bles have alood in awe of ochia his wit he kept alive the distrust that dogged the latter days of peel and he long made disraeli impossible and to the last absurd and theatrical on the other hand band he be greatly helped to create palmerston an and d how has he not laughed and made others laugh at gladstone wit without h out hunting him a bit at hu his vast rut collars and his yet more stupendous dous energy at gladstone who laughs a at t no nothing t 09 whereat his great rival laughed at everything little bonnets and big hoops lord mayors and stockjobbers stock jobbers sir gorgius midas and beame yellow plush the prince I 1 consort and the I 1 edall edd I 1 LL stock that choked private thomas atkins mrs de tom cyns and the ruffian of white chape lall these thoe and a hundred more have winced under the whole flome some cracking of that ready lash through it all like the true humorist he is be hebah everdeen ever been the friend of goodness and the enemy of evil he has never stooped I 1 to lully bully the weak or to cringe to the powerful to this country he has not always been fair but let that go before he bad been seen the fairness of bis his latest pet the american girl leech made him not without I 1 great help from doyle and thackeray benniel and jerrold lemon and a dozen or a score of others who brought their good pens and pencils to the famous weekly dinners where the cartoon was settled over the claret but leech made the success from the first retook betook be took with the town and tickled the funny bones of the dull countryside he ile founded a school of caricature in which to this thris day he be stands almost without arival a rival certainly without a superior superior before hi him in it was deemed deeme essential that e even ve U t the he best carrica ture should be angly and almost ea eapen lial I 1 that it should be savage after leech the artist did no not hesitate to draw a it good looking woman or a 9 well br bred 1 d horse of all these great ones the founders benniel alone remains perhaps tb the e greatest of them all what a work his has been the history of england for fifty years is in those wonderful cartoons it is the fashion especially with men of faded tastes to gay say that punch has gone off B but ut when had bad he anything better to offer than the fare that da du manner and harry furniss linley an and benniel provide us every wednesday As for benniel himself how often as even he surpassed sur surpassed passe athe the great cartoon cat toon dismissing the pilot in which so lately be drew the fall of bismarck thrice it may be but by any tiny one else it stands standa unequalled unequal led so heres to mr punch and bis family may they live long and prosper POP erl |