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      T H E T O M A H A W K. A Saturday Journa...

      T H E T O M A H A W K . A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . 0 OEtiitit ) tip & rtt ) UT a'Becfeett * " INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PRETERIT . "

      No. 149.] London, March 12, 1870. [Price...

      No . 149 . ] LONDON , MARCH 12 , 1870 . [ Price Twopence .

      Fashionable Auctions.

      FASHIONABLE AUCTIONS .

      No One Really Loves The Saturday Review....

      No one really loves the Saturday Review . This lively publication is the very Mephistopheles of the press . It is cynical , clever , sharp , everything but amiable . People fond of gall and wormwood can purchase those pleasant articles in sixpenny doses at the close of every week . It suits the taste of

      everybody , more or less . An attack upon the Pope will please Mr . Whalley early in the month , while a slashing charge upon Mr . Spurgeon will warm the heart of Sir George Bowyer before the twenty-eight days are over . Men are held up to execration for the benefit of womenwhile womenin the— ir turnare libelled , , ,

      for the edification of men . The motto of this publication seems to consist in the following : — " There is but one Sahcrday Review , and sixpence is its profit ! .. " True to his principles a year since , Mephistopheles took to abusing the fair sex . In an article entitled " The Girl of the

      Period , " woman ( to quote the song ) , " lovely woman , " was held up to the execration of the world . There was nothing bad enough for her . She was bold , heartless—as a girl a Phryne , as a mother a fiend . People read the article with pleasure . It was very " dreadful , " and " improper ^^^ ^ B , M " but p ^ M ~ leasant ^^ — . It ^^ was " — —

      satisfactory for women to compare themselves with the Sadducees ; it was delightful for men to find a cause for the irksomeness of their marriage chain , or an excuse for their bachelor selfishness . So people bought the number containing the article by thousands ; and the Saturday Reviewtaking

      advantage of the shower of gold , raised its price to a , shilling . So everybody was pleased—the women , the men , and the proprietors . However , everybody more or less agreed that the statements in the article savoured of falsehood . " Women were certainly

      bad , and Miss Dash infamous , but then it was a little too strong . " So said the virtuous females , who had never had an opportunity of being found out , for the simple reason that their virtue , from circumstances over which they had no control ( an ugly face and — — a bad — ~^ figure ^ t ^ J ™^ ^^ ™ , for ~~ ¦ ™~ * ¦ " ™~ instance ~~ ~~ m- —~ ¦¦ » r — — ^^ ¦ - ^ m- ) j , v had mm ^» - ^ ^^*^ m ^ never m > " ^™ ^ mW W ^ MW ^™ been w ™^ m ^ B * ^^ 0 ^ H ^ B put WmW ^ W ^^ to ^ V ^ Hmr the ^^ <• mm ^^^ test ^ m * ^ mm * " ™^ ^ m * . ^ f

      ii It was overdone , altho' the little Threestars certainly had been guilty of this and that indiscretion last season , " said the men , puffing at their cigars in the smoking-room and drinking their I but brandy smiled and and sodas took . in So the both Saturday women Review and men with condemned charming ,,

      ( to the proprietors , ) regularity , in the r hope of coming - . acros ® « j » articles equally as " improper " in tone , equally as true in matter . " Girl of the Period" coats , dresses , shirts appeared , and were successful , even a " Girl of the Period " Magazine ( which was

      to literature what the ballet is to the British drama ) , came out , and prospered ( so it is rumoured ) for a month or so on pictures of fast women and inane men . A reaction followed , and then we all of us came to the conclusion that there was not a scrap of truth in the article . It

      was proved without a doubt , that in spite of Madame Rachel , no one enamelled—in the face of advertising perruquiers , no one used golden hair dye or blanc de fierle . This was rather pleasant and satisfactory . It was , therefore , a pity , that in the midst of the pious rejoicing , such a case as the Mordaunt Trial

      should have come into court . The Saturday Review , gradually embracing the goody-goody code , plucked up courage , threw off its bondage , and last week actually bristled all over with "improper " articles and leaders , usually alluded to by men by the savoury term of " spicy . "

      We must admit that , indignant at the outrage upon decency , and seeing our way to a very effective cartoon , we took up the popular side . With an eloquence scathing in its noble appeal to the good and the beautiful , we denounced the Saturday Re-• vienv in large typeand pictures as highly coloured in tint as

      , they were chivalrous in signification . Our contemporary we called a prurient old woman . For the moment we worshipped at the shrine of Eve . Venus had given up Mars—had never known the warlike god—and was all that was pure and angelic . We are sure that many of our readers must have absolutely

      wept over our heartfelt essays . It is unpleasant—particularly unpleasant—to have to own ourselves in the wrong ; but there is : no help for it . This is a great season for mortification , and penance is a good thing for the soul . So , taking advantage of the recommendation of the Churchto confess our faults during

      , Lent ( see the Commination Service—Prayer Book , page 29 ) , we own that we made a great mistake when we cried up women to the skies , forgetting , for the moment , that the clouds are the exclusive property of those ( we are sure ) manly creatures , the ; angels . We proceed to make reparation .

      i The doings of the ladies recently have opened our eyes to their faults . Emphatically , ladies are fallible—very fallible—so fallible that we are not surprised that the Clubs are filled with confirmed young bachelors , and the Church of St . George ' s , Hanover square , almost destitute of marriage parties . With

      the Mordaunt case staring us in the face—with the proceedings of those creatures who " go in" for the Contagious Diseases Question filling the papers , how can we counsel young St . John to take to himself a wife ?—middle-ag-ed Portlington to look out for a partner ? Always willing to improve the world , in spite of the stinging

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), March 12, 1870, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_12031870/page/1/