The Archive · 1903

SAD BATHING

Chaclie's New Clothes;" this alone should FATALITY AT SHARP-call for the printing of five or six editions of this "Rattle," and it would be worth} many twopences coloured The portrait of the Doyen of the Consular Body is somewhat acrid; that of the Kung Boo Hen" is good, but not one of the best. The b ear tom, *Ferguson's Guards, portant than its subject of the portrait of the Hmpress Dowager is undeniable, unflattering as it must be. "Men of the Moment" is another well-drawn picture, und all the illustrated advertisements wre gol.

There is much that is good in the' letterpress and some very unabashed padding, expecially the old Symma doggrel of wom thirty years ago. No comic paper nowadays can appear without an attack on 'Tvelin but the galled jule may wince, our withers are unwrung. and there is' touch of consolation in the last line.

After nil, we love our Rattle and welcome it most ladly hoping. tht. the Genius Pictorial" will never fail it, and thy there will always be found poo's und satirisis to curry on its traditions, It is published by Kelly and Walsh, La.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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