Punch, or the London Charivari
Volume 105, July 29th 1893
edited by Sir Francis Burnand
MUSCULAR EDUCATION.
Mr. Punch has much pleasure in recommending the followingProspectus to the notice of parents desirous of finding a thoroughlypractical school where boys are educated according to the realrequirements of modern life.
CLOANTHUS HOUSE, MARKET DREPANUM, OXON.
Mr. J. Pen-Rullox, M.A. Cambs., and the Rev. WilfridBails, B.A. Oxon, receivepupils to prepare for thegreat public schools anduniversities.
The well-known qualificationsof Mr. Pen-Rullox,who rowed stroke inhis university boat in thecelebrated race at Amwellin 1878, and of the Rev.Mr. Bails, who played forOxford in the famous universitymatch in the CommonFields in 1882, will besufficient guarantee thatthe boys will be thoroughlywell instructed.
Besides Rowing, Cricket,and Football; Swimming,Racquets, Boxing, andHockey, are specially attendedto by competentAssistant-Masters, underthe personal supervision ofthe Principals.
Billiards, Lawn-tennis,Poker, Nurr and Spell, andsome other minor games, now too frequently neglected in the educationof youth, will find their due place in the curriculum of CloanthusHouse.
It is in contemplation, should a sufficient number of boys show amarked inclination for such studies, to engage a Board-school Master,of approved competence, to direct literary and scientific work.
Terms, inclusive, £250 per annum, payable in advance: the onlyextras at present being Reading, Writing, Polo, and Arithmetic.
Reference is kindly permitted to the following:—The Right Rev.the Bishop of Isthmia; the Editor of the Sporting Life; the Rev.R. E. D. Horgan, M.A., Jesurum Col., Cambs; the Sports Editor ofthe Field; the Warden of Mortlake College, Putney; Dr. S. A.Grace, LL.D.; the Hon. and Rev. Hurlingham Peel.
THE BITTER CRY OF THE BROKEN-VOICED CHORISTER.
(A long way after Tennyson.)
Break, break, break,
O voice on that clear top C!
And I would that my throat could utter
High notes as they used to be.
O well for old Bundlecoop's boy
That he still shouts his full round A!
O well for that tow-headed lad
That he sings in his old clear way.
And the anthems still go on
With boy-trebles sharp and shrill;
But O for my "compass," so high and grand,
And the voice that I used to trill!
Break, break, break,
Like a creaky old gate, top C!
But the high treble notes of a voice that is cracked,
Will never come back to me!
QUEER QUERIES.
The White Currency Question.—Can nothing be done toprevent the Indian Viceroy from carrying out his monstrous proposalabout the Rupee? I was