This was got up fora BAZAAR in aid of a RAGGED SCHOOL, arid having since served at other BA7 A ARS jpies, btiil left f n hand after doing tlieir best for Human-beings, may surely, without any of the usu I seifisb ig of exclusive Philanthropists, be allowed to constitute Hm crumbs which fattfrot-i ?r able” and be .over to the ANNUAL BAZAARS of the TEMPORARY HOMY ion LOST and PARTING LOGS, I WAY, now at,£- %j - J| W'&liWi- L6. BATTLRUEA. Adjoining tie York ■debt] Chatham , ana I oi r Hallway, on th* branch line between Zeudga ■ SiV and Vl.-oria Cialioni. hLost Canine Propel 'y ’ often of great value independently of estimate n from r- ttachment, ban Had is more required now that, owing to r auction of .ax, double the number of dogs are kept* mnt by this time, probably three hundred thousand pounds Per Annum, the amount in 1872, 3,756 for 1,123,023 dogs: As the Dog is not the wild produce ot the mountain, forest wood, of is indeed, with all its interesting and handsome varieties [some of which are of great rarity jtha Sal cultivation by man, for whose gratification, in way of fondness , admiration, usefulness, guard- I>pipap.:onsk:p, it is bred and reared, it has as m disputa l ly rightful a claim upon him. author of ita (Support by food and shelter, as any of man’s cattle, whether reared as sheep oxen, &e. for the mor* fes oi food and profit., or, as the beastofburden to take from off h.s own shoulders p rt of the original - h ■ - i. creatures the most companionable, loth to parents, and the y\ ung; ti ■ Lddren, having e imp etc oi : al, the chiei favourite and loving friend 1 1 man; not merely his faithful : .Rower all over th» [gh wcA mid woe, o’er peaceful glade or battle field. b ut through fire and water, from which destructive > rescued many a human being In addition, it is a wonderful key to character! 01 rne Low any on# , anc yuu read his heart so distinctly as to guess his character! The cruel, the ignci ,nt, the silly, the pile - the Lad hearted are theoniy had treaters, haters, and fearers of the Dog! \v nat is the characters, irliG,in blood-thirsty spirit, would shoot, orctL.rw.se slaughter ail lest dogs, however valuable, on the able principle of the blockhead, who would have all lost and stolen property destroyed Ly the Folic* (? Is it not, the stupidly inobservant, dulloi intellect and the despicably heartless, who with careless 111 suffering but theirown advocate the aband^niu^ our little helpless dependant, when lost and in ita mrueiiy lingering death by hunger, thirst, cold, and persecution Ly street blackguards, perhaps, ts* by medical student^? IN JB. For smvictum m tutu cases, rewards are offered by the kveiety c UPE d APPEAL FOR THE HARD WORKED POOR. Being a few sharp pointed remarks on the acute sufferings of Needlewomen, from too much needlework and too little pin-money. Dear Public, Poor Needlewomen, many of whom have been reduced to straitened circumstances fey the % -f crooked ways of others, though undeniably not on the brightest side of this world, indeed, too often so far removed from it as to be living in the deepest shade of obscurity, having the whole world, with its cold stony heart lying between themselves and the warm sunshine of prosperity, are nevertheless not all of them “ benighted individuals,” and though they may be too often looked down upon with a contemptuous frigid scowl by that sycophant double-faced world which is always ready to look up to the great, the rich, and the prosperous, with sunny but deceitful smiles, they have many good qualities and virtues, which require only a little more of that same genial sunshine of prosperity to enable them to sprout, vegetate and fructify ! . Indiscriminately to contemn the poor, or treat them with indifference or neglect is a mistake which can only be committed by those, who pertinaciously keep themselves so far remote from them as to be truly their V * / antipodes ; but those kindly-natured commiserators who feel in their hearts a sort of acupunctuation for the misery of others, and who, thrusting aside the world with its prejudices, let in upon these poor people & little of the bright sunshine of Jiappiness to gladden the frozen regions of their hearts, are frequently astonished to find that the light thus let in upon them, brings out to view many good qualities which were before hid by that obscurity into which poverty had thrown them, and from which they are too helpless to extricate themselves. They who have only seen the sunny side of this world, and have always lived in the freedom of independence, can guess but little of the life of drudgery, almost slavery, endured by the class of semps'eres, on whose distress so much, stress has here been laid, and though the Needlewomens Institution is intende, o ameliorate their i.ondif u, by rendering them less dependent upon those hard 4 ; ask-masters of the si. ops, whose exactions cf labour from these mournful daughters of Eve may be said to extend “ from eve till morn, from morn till dewy eve,” there is still much reason for commiserating those whose whole thread of existence, until the scissors of fate shall snip it, is doomed to be perpetually threaded through a needles eye, through which small eye is ' isi ;e :be whole prospect of their success in life, and who must stitch, stitch, stitch, defiant of headache or stitch in the side, hopelessly leading a life which, as to comfort, may not inaptly be compared to the sensations of a limb recovering from that numbness defined as “ being asleep,” wakin up every morning to a daily life of et pins and needles,” — and if this is not something to the point, pray what is ? Your humble Servant, THE TREASURER TO THE REMACUTANGERE SOCIETY F - v4 r- Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Brigham Young University https://archive.org/details/livelysalliesaftOOpark / While you have your likeness taken, Be sure to keep your head quite still ; Should it be but slightly shaken, You’ll be ill-looking and look ill. 2 From such a fate no care could save me, My head I turned from north to south.; Though but an inch — yet still it gave me Three eyes, two noses, and wide mouth. ^ Let not my features me disparage, The mind may still be none the worse; My Muse, wljo hath a gentle carriage, Thus depicts it in her verse. 4 Beneath a coarse and rough exterior, There may be found a gentle heart, With feelings mild, and far superior To those which outward signs impart. ^ For should those feelings be too tender, Too soft, too delicate, to last, A rough top-coat’s the best defender, From this rude world’s cold nipping blast. {Dn a cold Summer’s morning in Spring, When the sun was just going to set. The owls all beginning to sing, Put the crows in a terrible pet. Their patter and chatter and clatter, So bewildered and bothered my head That, wondering what was the matter, I hastily jumped out of bed. Then I opened my window and looked out afar, The green fields appeared green to my view, The clouds were as cloudy, as clouds mostly are. And all the blue sky was sky-blue ! A ■ The sky lark, melodiously singing his song, Flew up very high in the sky ; So fast, and so nimbly, it did not take long Before he had mounted sky-high ! The fish-pond looked wet, from the rain overnight And the fish were all leaping about;'- Oh! thinks I, if I had but a line p’rhaps I Have the luck just to pull a trout out. *^But stretching too far from the window on high. My head being heavy with sleep. O’er balanced my heels, and I fell, with a cry. Plump into the pond pretty deep! ^ And when I got out, Oh ! how changed was my face ! Which before I fell in was so ruddy ; And my head stuck so long in that thick muddy place, my wits have been ever since muddy ! r The Authors Son. andffeir, (Query Mcdr?) frwompUs CapilUs, L Oh, he is a sweet “ creetur ! ” No child could be sweeter, f he would but just keep himself quiet, Qut he’s often in pets, And in mischief he gets, Ceeping up a continual riot. 7 First, down he falls plump, With a flump and a bump, Imd treats the whole house to a roar ; Then his arms, flapp’d like wings. Sweep off all the things From the table right down on the floor. Then down he lies flat. On the dirty door mat, find shockingly soils his new frock ; Then, before you’re aware Scampers out here and there. And gives his head many a knock. / Though not very much hurt, he Has made himself dirty, And sadly he draggled his tail ; Broke a pane, smashed a plate ; Burn’d his hand at the grate. And swallow’d a pin, or a nail. with unkempt cnpiUarp aHmcftom. ^ Then, like most other boys, He makes so much noise, You scarcely can hear yourself speak y Then he gets up a “ battle,’’ Gives his drum a loud rattle, And his tin penny trumpet a squeak ^ Such sad hubble-bubbles. And family troubles, Are rapidly driving me, wild ! But, who is it so silly ? Why, that’s my little Willie, My eldest and favourite child ! f Said a smile to a tear, — “ What are you doing here, On this Paterfamilias’s nose ? ” Said the tear to the smile, — '• I am here only while He bewails all his troubles and woes ! ” f s‘ What a horrible clatter ! Oh ! dear ! what’s the matter ? “ There now, don’t you hear the child cry ? “ Something’s fell on his toes,” “ Or he’s broken his nose, Or has just poked a stick in his eye ! Then his finger gets cuh Or in some door shut, nd sometimes he tumbles downstairs Then he wants his own will, And will never be still, ot even while saying his prayers. / ' -■V ■« i i Ji c Tar enrols Despair aridlYlwTInmMrwes/ Mamma! Mamma! come out and see What dear Papa has done ; He’s kicking on the apple tree. Oh ! ain’t it jolly fun ? f He’s throwing both his arms about, And much the air embraces ; He's stretching both his legs wide out, And makes such queer grimaces ! He’s up there with a bit of rope ; Oh ! how he rolls his eyes. He’ll stay till you come out, I hope Twill be a great surprise ! C & OR THE MYSTERIOUS CARPET BAG. Traveller lone to London came, And a Carpet-Bag he had ! I know not hii nation, his station, his name ; But I know that his fate was sad ! His Carpet-Bag was of pattern gay, With flowers of brilliant hues ; And down the middle once had (some say,) A division for boots and shoes . Perhaps his heart, like his Bag, was gay, His spirits with pleasure rife; Hi thought, as to London he' wended his way, Of the flowiry paths of life. In some vile thief's iniquitous den, A prey to the knife hi fill: If murdered by women, or murdered by men, Lis out of my power to till. Hear it not with smile, but gloomy frown, Lhiy gave him the ‘'hocus'd eupl” In the prime of his life he was soon out down, Ahd was afterwards soon cut up! They stabb'd him lift, and they stabb.d him right ; Stifling his eries with a gag; And they carried him out in the dead of night, Packed up in his Carpet-Bag ! Some woman er man, I do‘nt know who, This horrible deed to hide; Put him over the Bridge of Waterloo, To be swept away by the tide. No bell for the poor departed soul Toll’d forth from the steeple high: Eor the Toll- taker’s toll was the only toll Which told when the eoi pse went by ! But the Bridge refused to hide the guilt, The river withheld its flood, And reveal’d the fact, that ruffians had spilt An innocent Traveller’s blood! The Bag, with flowers displayed outside, Stood lodged on the Bridge's stones ; And it soon became known both far and wide, It was filled with a dead man’s bones ! Emblem of Pleasure’s delusive snare ; Where often lies hid great sin ? Outside are all flowers, so bright — - bo fair, While — Death is concealed within ! This Warning take, and be sure to see, That your Bag be made so small. That, when murder’d, no robber shall able be To pack you up in it at all! At Judy’s door-step T poured out my love, While so sweetly she smiled from The window above. But her ill-tempered Dad gave my hopes a sad blow. When he looked with a growl from The window below. Swearing, — into the river he quickly would shove All who courted the lass at The window above. If I came there again, he would soon let me know, That he kept a strict watch at The window below. But never mind, Judy, my chaste little dove, I’ll court you again at The window above. And your crabbed old Dad may to Jericho go, Though he does look so fierce from The window below, With this pledge of affection, the worn-out old glove That my Judy let fall from The window above, Wliich, when press’d to my heart with warm love maker it glow, I can turn with contempt from The window below \ > ' ■0 yv* ♦ r The^ Haunted House. Behold the Haunted House appear ; Lonely, and dark, and sad, and drear ! No fire on hearth, no light to cheer, Or course of wanderer lost, to -steer ! There’s something in it strange and queer, •And all around it, far and near, . Mysterious noises greet the ear, And fill each passer-by with fear, ' And make him start, and cry “ Oh dear ! ” “ I would be any where but here ! ! ” Just imagine the fright of these travellers three. Their terror distorting each stump of a tree, When, though ’tis near midnight, distinctly they see The skeleton owner, as grim as can be, As he lets himself in, with his skeleton-key : With what shaking, and quaking, and knee-knocking knee. They shuddering cry, There he is ! That is he ! Mowrnftd End of these Lively Sallies. a** 4’ UPB THE HOME FOR LOWER WANDSWORTH ROAD, BATTERSEA, (Late at Holloway). SPECIAL APPEAL. The Committee embrace the present opportunity of bringing this Institution and its position before the notice of its fiiends, in the hope that, on the one hand, the steps which have recently been taken A'dll meet with iheir approval, and that, on the other, an effort will be made to provide the funds, which at this special juncture are urgently needed. It is probably known to the Subscribers to this Institution, but may be here mentioned with advantage, that its removal from its original situation at Holloway to its new locality as above is now complete. This removal had become a matter of necessity. The fear of constantly recurring interference, much of which was extremely unreasonable, on the part of the neighbouring inhabitants, compelled the Committee for some time past to seek another site for the Home. 2 In pursuing this object they required a spot which would combine these two qualifications, viz : — that it should be easily accessible to the greater part of London, and at the same time not immediately surrounded by human habitations. These qualifications were at length met with at the foot of the York Load Station on the Railway between Ludgate Hill and Victoria. The site there selected is peculiarly favourable, being bounded on every side but one by lines of Railway, while, the frontage to the Lower Wandsworth Road being in their own possession, they can prevent opposition in that quarter. The ground, which is freehold, was purchased for £1500, and is admitted on all hands to have been bought very cheap. The new buildings, which are very complete, and Avell worthy of inspection, have cost about £2500. This outlay has however been a severe tax on the resources of the Committee, who have been obliged to borrow a considerable portion of it ; and now earnestly, but confidently, look to their friends and the public to ratify the wisdom of their proceedings by assisting them to an early discharge of their obligations. They may mention that their interest in the old site, which they are prepared to dispose of, is valued at about £1200, and the surplus portion of the ground newly acquired is probably worth about £1000 or £1100 more. A considerable amount, however, is requisite to free them from responsibility, and in the mean time to pay accruing interest of money. Were the important object accomplished of setting the Institution free from debt, the Com¬ mittee would feel much encouragement in looking forward to the future of the Home. So much more extensively is it now known than formerly — so much larger an amount is now realised by disposing of dogs to those who apply for them. It will gratify the friends of these poor creatures to know that, during the year 1871, no fewer than 665 were restored to their owners, and 658 provided with new homes. The number brought in by the Police during the year was 6,250, all rescued from probable ill-usage, and all of whom, under the older system, would have been pitilessly destroyed. All dogs, even of the smallest value, are now kept several days at the Home ; and such as cannot be preserved, are at lost disposed of by a merciful means of extinction only when it is necessary to make room for others. The number, however, usually retained at the Home is five times as many as formerly ; the character of the new premises affording much greater accomodation. The Committee, might, if it were necessary, enter at large on a description of the benefits conferred by the Home and its arrangements upon this important, but often much injured, race of' creatures, the bosom-friends of mankind, but often treated undeservedly as worthless outcasts, and yet retaining, through all misfortune and ill-usage, the same affectionate and dependent spirit. They would leave all such details, however, to suggest themselves to the minds of those who have studied the subject. It is to such they principally look in the hope that their present appeal may be successful. It would be indeed an unfeigned source of gratification, if all liabilities could be removed during the present year; and, sincerely trusting that they may not ask in vain, they would earnestly entreat all into whose hands this appeal may come, either from their own resources, or by the exertion of their influence with others, to take whatever means may be in their power to render this Institution what it bids fair to be — an honour to the Metropolis at large, February, 1872. Contributions will be gratefully received by John Colam, Esq., Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 105, Jermyn Street, S.W. ; IIinrM1 WAitniNcn, Esq., 1-1, Thr Qrmr, - ♦jlniphani lluad, 7>.W. Jeooe, 'loose Lodge, Sutton, Ouney Mis. M:u utryOO, Crmunbury B»ad, X. ■MonrrAW, — Acacia Cottage, Streatham Place, Ernrton — II ill, Q.Wr; Mi--. ITuliEina, ], Hyde Park -TcmoOj Ivcn-jingtimr1 Gore, W. ;-ordMr: — Jamijek- >P)irx.so-x, Mmiaysr, iy Paulton - Sepia ROST AND STARVING DOGS, LOWER WANDSWORTH ROAD, BATTERSEA, LONDON, Adjoining the York Road Station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway , on the Branch-line between Ludgate Hill and Victoria Stations. REMOVED FROM HOLLOWAY. nnHE purposes for which the above-named “ Home ” has been established are : — 'the -L rt^oue from starvation and misery of lost and homeless dogs found wandering in the streets ; the restoring them, when possible, to their owners, ; and the providing unclaimed ones with new homes, or in case of necessity otherwise disposing of them. The Committee are anxious to impress upon the public the fact that this Institution is not intended to be a permanent home for old and worn out favourites, nor a hospital for the cure of sick dogs, but simply a place to which humane persons may send homeless and famishing dogs found in the streets, with a view to their being suitably taken care of. The Committee entreat all readers of this paper never to suffer any dog obviously lost or starving to remain in the street without an effort to have it conveyed to the “ Home,” or at least to procure the proper attention of the police to the fact of its being in such a condition. It should here be mentioned that all dogs taken charge of by the Police are, under their regulations, brought to the u Home,” where they are kept three clear days, to allow of their being claimed by their owners, before disposing of them in any other way. Persons who have lost dogs should therefore lose no time in making application accordingly, when every facility will be given for the recovery of their favourites. It is felt to be a special source of gratification if dogs can be thus restored. The Committee also invite those who may require to be supplied with dogs, to visit the “ Home,” as a large number of handsome or useful ones of various kinds are always to be found there, and may be purchased at a ■ moderate price. This is now made legal by Act of Parliament, and the new premises affording much greater accommodation than those at Holloway, all dogs except the very weak and sickly ale preserved for the longest possible time. The hours during which the establishment is daily open to inspection (exclusive of Sundays) are : — from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. from October to March, and till 6 p.m. from April to September. All enquiries made by letter should be accompanied with a stamped envelope for reply, having the enquirer’s full address upon it. Subscriptions and Donations are earnestly solicited to enable the Committee to pay off a mortgage upon the premises, to extend the benefits of the Institution , and to increase the accommodation of the uHome.v They may bypaul by Cheque or by Order on the Post Office , St. James'1 Street , London , s.w., to Mr. tJaI# Manager and Secretary , Home for Lost Dogs , South Lambeth , s.w., or to Mr. John Colam, Royal Society for prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 105, Jermyn Street, s.w., who has kindly consented to receive Contributions. [Copies of this paper may be obtained on application at the u Home.”] sfaw