Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-01-06
q ales ano Skrttbts.
Punch,s Pocket Book for 1854.

The humor of the Punch school of writer's does
not seem TO be on the wane. While men and
women, social arrangements and political fooler-
les remain what they arc, there will be no lack
of good caricatures and wise satire The :. Pock-
ct Book " or 1854, is as good as the first of the
series perhaps better.
The principle illustration is a scene from the
Australian dggings, "Topsy-Turvy, or our Anti
podes." A number of rough-looking diggcrs are
sitting carousing outside their rude huts-thc
Antipodean Regent street'-while literary gen
tlemen in spectacles and black cloth, and fashion,
able exquisites in variegated attire, are waiting
at the table, cleaning knives, pulling off their
masters boots, &C. sNow then, you Master of
Arts ~ says one grim looking desperate who is
dealing out pack of cards, - look sharp With
that pale ale" q Hollo there says brute
who has thrust his head outside a tent, :" You in
&eliectual being-wherc the doose my high
lows?" In the background youth in college
dress is touching his hat to diggers who about
TO dismount their horses, opposite the shed of
''J. Muddles, NJ. D., F. r. s., Light Porter,
Waiter, Boots and Knives cleaned The other
illustrations relate to laceti i'll the letter press
The following arc among the best of the itera
ry contributions
A LITTLE BsCTURE ADDRESSED 10 MY DEARS--tBY
AN OLD MAID OF THE WORLDLY
" Ny dears, love is like chancery; it is deal
easier to get into it than to get out again. There
are thousands of ways for the former but as for
the latter, it can't be done nowavs.
Take my advice, my dears-pever believe a
man before marriage, and never trust him after
wards.
'fmcn, my dears, were to pay, like servants,
for everything they broke, they wouldn't be so
fond of breaking their hearts for every poor girl
they saw The fortune of RothschiId couldn' t
stand, my dears, against such a ruInous amount
of breakages. Why have known mans heart
break as often as an American bank, and yet, he
would open the next day with the same brass
plate on his face, on which you could plainly
read assurance and his heart would go on is
suing the same false notes as before Besides,
what becomes of all their brokoR hearts, should
like to know Where do they all go to! Along
with the old moons, | suppose; or they may be
keeping company; there's no knowing where,
yath all the pins that are lost, each heart being
stuck through with pin. like the curious insects
IN museum.
There's no need to tell you, am sure my
dears, about choosing husband. woman $
1nstlnct generally guides her in those little mat
tiers. But this will tell you, that husbands
differ as much as geese but the Softest mind is
not always the worst The softer your husband,
the more pliable you will find him. and all the
easier for you to twist him around your little
finger If husbands trusted more to their wives
and less to themselves, there would be more hap
py marriages but, until they learn what is due
to sex, and fully prepared to pay it, that
happy balance will never exist in a household
which, to the husband, should be the source o
rs much as large balance is at his bankers bu
at present the wife is not allowed to have any
share or interest in the one, to participate ii
The other.
will conclude, my doars, with giving you