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    133 THE TOM AH A WK. {September 25, 1869...

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    PUBLIC OPINION- AS A POWER*

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    but we This do ourselves not is an mean ...

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    (30 Margate, Sept. 22, 1869. two Sir old...

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    Autumn Brings Other Things Besides Fruit...

    ness , this reckless extravagance is gaining ground . Silk facings and velvet collars and satin linings , and the tailor only knows how many expensive items , are added at the bidding of Fashion . One sees not many , thank Heaven ! but still , not a few men with their feet squeezed into finicking patent leather boots , and

    their clothes cut in such a manner as to make it dangerous to laugh , even if they were capable of so manly an exercise . Dandies , we thought , were things of the past , but petits maitres , to devise a very expressive synonym-, seem on the increase . It is effeminacy a bad si in gn the when young even men ever of so a sli country ght a tendency , especiall is y shown if that to is

    accompanied by a tendency on the part of woman to imitate man in no other point but in his dress . Neither good citizens nor good wives are to be chosen from such . As for mothers , now-a-days , the nurse usurps their place ; maternity is a duty for which , like the conscription , every one who can afford the

    luxury gets a substitute . This extravagance of dress is very stale food for the satirist . But he is none the less obliged to feed on it sometimes , for neither the physical nor moral effects of this folly are easily limited . Something more than imperfect respiration and

    injured digestion , than excessive vanity and levity , spring from this source . It is always said that the extravagance of the rich finds employment , and so food , for the poor ; and to a certain extent it is so . But , various as are the materials employed in the adornment of the human form , from the excrement of the insect

    to the spoil of the corpse ' s head , everybody cannot live by dressmaking and its kindred trades . Extravagance in mere ornament may enrich a few , but it does not benefit the many . The great branches of industry do not receive a stimulus from the elaborate shapes or excessive trimming of women ' s dress . Where

    servile imitation makes all society lavish of money on dress , it either compels families of moderate means to practise meanness in more useful branches of expenditure , or it lands them in the Bankruptcy Court . And , though Art , in its noblest and purest sense , is not much thought of now-a-days , we may say

    that it is invariably the case in a country where much attention and expense are devoted to the bastard art of adorning the human person , true art languishes . In the cause of intellectual and moral progress we plead for fashion in dress , handsome , but not extravagant—comfortable , but not indecent .

    133 The Tom Ah A Wk. {September 25, 1869...

    133 THE TOM AH A WK . { September 25 , 1869 .

    Public Opinion- As A Power*

    PUBLIC OPINION- AS A POWER *

    But We This Do Ourselves Not Is An Mean ...

    but we This do ourselves not is an mean age as well , of and humbug : for deceiving instance . We not , we are onl are continuall y never everybod tired y say y about ing of cant what us - , fallible lenders ing about despot statesmen " public , at whose opinion and anatomical power . " We . Poor allude museum -law to Guardi it proprietors as a ans soft , money of grow inpale nonsense and , . tremble Over . and , We over know again all we the have while seen that public this is opinion sheer fat howling some noisy momentary bab frantic y would —literall evil have , but y had kicking kicking more with hopelessl influence tumid y in and indi putting in gnation vain a . stop at A demi to many -god scandalous . We know abuses this well than ; our yet great we write flaccid leading and petulant articles

    vi about gour . it , Here and repeat in Eng the lan conventional d we shake twaddle our heads with solemnl unabated y , and of the refer hero to " or braving pf the public maniac opinion . Forei " as gners the culminating have caught effort the p worse hrase incomes from . us , allude . Dirty to Frenchmen ( i the opinion , with publi bad que educations " with fervour and , and a red picture atheistical to themselves tendencies some strapp and ing broad heathen views goddess on the mar with - riage question cap , . We do not undeceive , them . We do not admit , is except nothing quite but privately a helpless to each , mumbling other , , that querulous the lady old in crone question , to whom nobody on earth pays the slightest attention whatever .

    But We This Do Ourselves Not Is An Mean ...

    number If a proof of be soug dail ht , one is will ready at l hand it at . once A reference . There to it any is the everlasting any letter y paper full of indi supp gnant y complaint , shrieking to , day end all-p , the owerful once ball and publi is for kep c all t op rolling , inion to some . to Policemen raise intolerabl its , mi railway e g nuisance hty voice directors . and Day , put organ after an grinders , foot and mouth diseasesand all the other social torrent scandals of of indi life gnation take their turn down . But , the nothing accustomed happens course . kill The

    but — — ——— not — —— a rock — — — — - stirs — fy — ~» -w ^ an ..-w .- — inch pours j £ -r ^^ . V * - *< w The ^ i- * .- *^ TV noise J . J . VA 1 V is terrific , VV > lr * . W V V ^ . AJL 4 . V * The Up V * V re ^ sult * - » * - "J , is nil . fac "We e to make several these very eals few that commonp havefrom lace time remarks to time by way come of pre into - our hands . We app are not in the habit , as our readers are , awareof publi short - shing ¦ lesson ¦ letters of ¦ instruction , but vn v v a perusal to the VAAV of , least fc the fcrf reflective following \ thinker bAAAAJLA will carry li , All a

    the suggested - — — — — — grievances — - — - — — - — before — . — — - — „__ allude . How d w to * far » * below . ^_ r they have have . ^» W »»«» met been JL ^ A . AB *\* , with ' *» to J . » ^^ say any the remedial ^^ . least A A'i' , treatment show . Sing , an le occasional cries for hel look p appear at the to column have produced of the Times but little will result : possibly a chorus may prove more effective . We subjoin one : — ( 1 . )

    TO THE EDITOR OF THE TOMAHAWK . London , Sept . 19 , 1869 . make Sir , use —To of those the General who may London , in any and emergency European , be Cosmopolitan induced to which Telegrap speak h Company for themselves ' s wires , I . beg A to grandmother recount the following of mine , facts who , resides at Bermondsey , was seized on Thursday last with a

    severe attack of superficial epistragitisand in the sudden crisis she had a telegram despatched to me , at rny town residence in the shillings Little transmission Peter and Street ninep of , ence the Westminster ^ message > r its keep , . and Six at I have the days Head been were charged Office occup during ied three in that against period the . company I need scarcel for heavy y add damages that I ; brought my grandmother an action , offended at my silence , having struck me out of her will , and

    mulcted died died immediatelv immediatel in ^ 259 y afterwards afterwards 3 s . i od . . costs . I I , lost lost the my mv Judge case case having , , and and have have ruled been been that " no telegraph company shall be held responsible for its own defalcations provided the message be delivered within six the calendar middle months of the . " nineteenth And this , century Sir , take , and s place within in Eng ear- land shot in of Printing-House Square ! I appeal to your powerful pen to

    assist , Yours , & c , DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI . ( 2 . ) .. The Police StationBobbinhamCornwall ^*_ tab . fe a 12 « th Atigust , ^^' * -a 1869 . ^ ^^_ ,

    the Sir South , —I took Middle * a ticket Counties yesterday Extension evening Line -, from asking Blaxham at ^ the ^ sam , on e into to time Pigg most the leton first distinctly Junction train that for . a I came paid return 7 to s second ., the hand - fare class . 1 , dem , was vid anded Pottsboroug without , and got h , warning , taken three hundred and ninety-five , miles in any the wrong direction , to this place , Sluggs Hill . The stationmaster has given me a black eye , and sent for a policeman , and

    my mv return return ticket ticket has has been been taken taken from from me me bv by force force . W What hat had had II better do ? Your obedient servant Fiat , Justitia .

    (30 Margate, Sept. 22, 1869. Two Sir Old...

    ( 30 Margate , Sept . 22 , 1869 . two Sir old , —After ladies beating , one suffering about for from 172 tubercular hours in , an paral open ysis boat , I h with ave managed to reach this place . On the 19 th of August last I took a passage by one of the Mid-Ocean and Overland Steamship Company - ^^ v « . v v ^ m m ^ m ^ r ^ r ^ wm ^ j - * - «' m s v packets ^^ ~^^ ^^ «• ^^ ^^^ ¦ ^^^ to ^^ ^ Hull ^ v ^^ vr mam W 4 B . w ^ After v w ^ ^ ^ m ^^ r <** three ^ F w «•* *>^ w ^^ v ^^ weeks v p ^ v' m * » ¦¦^^ ' ' * s ^ v evere ^ v V ^^ ^ " ^^^ wea r w -v hi v th ^ ^ ^ er ^^^ t + ^ ^

    in the the decks Channel I discovered , during which that we every were living carrying thing a was cargo swep of t live off gorillas andgi , m cotton . I remonstrated strongly with the capliked tain , . who The , after two old putting ladies me to whom into irons I have , said referred I might were do at what their I the own afternoon request , let and down it was in onl an y open on their boat threatening at a quarter to to have thre their e in

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  • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Sept. 25, 1869, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_25091869/page/2/