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THE TOMAHAWK: A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATI...
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No. 42.] LONDON, FEBRUARY 22y 1868. [Pri...
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MARRIAGE REFORM.
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Bacchanalian Motto for a Quack !—" The K...
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The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sati...
THE TOMAHAWK : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . - "INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PRETERIT . *
No. 42.] London, February 22y 1868. [Pri...
No . 42 . ] LONDON , FEBRUARY 22 y 1868 . [ Price Twopence .
Marriage Reform.
MARRIAGE REFORM .
Collapsed There Before Is Perhaps The Fo...
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her nothing by predestination less than a Divine , it is decree a something , for Leonora she could ' s love not cam escape e to , the she met Count her pluck sister them -soul , asunder flew to / it ' , & grew c , & to c , it and , and so now the you eternal and something sermon goes in on it , , and until that everybod mothers y is are half altogether persuaded the that worst there , and is rejected lovers the worse treated of all created beings . this There sort are of V , reasoning rib no doubt rests bbi , those «¦• ¦» ¦*¦• fcB who » 1 > B » « h a fc"j declare fallacy 4 b that they «¦ aV * the assert M whole MWV that f *> of
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days to sit , next Jack to turns her over at dinner Alice . 's music Then he once thinks or twice what , and a bore happens it is a to joll live y thing alone it and would eat bad be to breakfasts have someb every ody to morning see that , and the what eggs weren thre has w got ' over t , hard how Top more proud heavy than her to once rich dance old a with week uncle him , what is . of Then splendid her , he and turn hair how s Alice over she some rnore music , another rainy day works him up to the requisite than anybody point and in the he suggests world to She Alice on that her he side love has s her alway better
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re-Jack whole takes stage ' s anybody a . idea different Once of this mi predestination and ght particular have more gone pronounced stage in , but love passed that , and character , much of all cours the admitted , bosh e but the to about thing this the therefore sister-souls when , vanish she finds together out . what The has rage been of going Alice on ' s , mother is not , love sixpence only with natural , , she somebody but knows laudable that else , . it and was She she just knows has as got easy that a for Jack somebod Alice has y to not else fall got in in a her eye , who " would be satisfactory in everv way . She knows
in in short short , that that this this sort sort of of salad salad which which is is called called love love , , is is capable capable tables of being and , sown that , grown because , cut a bird , and of sent the air to sale happens like to all have other dropped vegemarket a lettuce , -gardening -seed by the . So wayside she tramp , that les is out no the reason chance for growth giving , puts up Alice and has into got a hot a ri - g house ht to expect with Top a satisfactory heavy or some result other . The seedling deuce , of of it it is is . that that Alice Alice sometimes sometimes gets gets int into o her her head head precisely precisely ttiis this
tion notion of , , Pro that vidence the first and seedling is a sacre was d planted growth b , y an a special idea which dispensa the - mischief novelists . and The essay fact , is ists that carefull she can y promote just as well , and fall hence in love all with the one man as with another , and if she refuses to do it , it is through pure That obstinacy is what in is which said , she by oug the ht not matter to be -of encouraged -fact people . with We whom hold we entirely beg our to fair the readers doctrine to of believe predestination we do not , so at all much agree so . , that we have been at great pains UVVAAJk to WV think WAA & Aaal of "W * a lan by which -- — it
woul illlUi ) d »* V be * 11 M properl * V * - # V * VIA y carried C * V f- )* ' ^ " ** -VW out into W practice , * starting p J- ' ••——— J from — —— - —— the rule that everybody is , or ought to be , in love with somebody tunity else if they of finding only knew out who it ; it we is , would and of give remed every ying body any the mistakes opporthat might be made in the search . Let us then elaborate one scheme MVAAlAiVf . —~ ^ ~^ a *|^_ . _ . ak ai «« aP > V * ft ^* A « 4 a a ^*^ the a ^
first The _^ of Esta May _ b in lisJimeu each ^ year t of an , every Annual person Marriage " being by Ballot of full . — age On , and not ri bands ght subject to while present to any hersel man legal f at would incapacity the polling have the , " -p & lace ri c . & ht , and c to , should vote vote for have for wives hus the - that is , to say , every that each would place in the g ballot-box the name , of capacity the individual . On the he boxes or she being would opened be disposed , the names to choose would in that be tained arranged , the in first lists man according would be to the married number to the of votes first each woman had , and obso on down to the lowest w whilst Oa those « aa- aaF ^ aW who w w bb a- ^ a- had aia a * m » B » no ~ m- - — ' votes » - ^ — - ^ - ~ at — — — all — - — ^ af ^ M ^ m ^ w ^ * »• a . ^» F W r Aal W ^ aT ^ W ai * * " ^ aV ^ a ^ ai ™^ <^ ** , ^ " ™ ^**^ £ _ "" ^ T _ BbiV * ^ - - "i ^ * " )
mig Objection ht ^ either ^ will ^ ballot very again possibl or wait y be till made the ^ against next polling this p day lan . , it will be said that it is too great a step to take at once , that it is a leap rates . in But the dark it is , manifest and that that some it would of the result electors generally don ' t in pay better any assortedmarriages system , and even if , than it did those not , which the matter are made could on be the remedied hap-hazard at the the present end of the fashion first , term founded of seven as it is years on , the an advantage base theory which that affection alone of all things in the world ought to be eternal , does But not if anybody possess . objects to the plan , let them suggest a better .
Bacchanalian Motto For A Quack !—" The K...
Bacchanalian Motto for a Quack !— " The Kahn that brings the bier ! "
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), Feb. 22, 1868, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_22021868/page/1/
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