Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890

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"PLACE AUX DAMES!"

[Following the brilliant success of Miss Fawcett at Cambridge, Mlle. Belcesco, a Roumanian lady, took her degree to-day as Docteur en Droit. Like Miss Fawcett, she obtained the highest place at the examination for the Licentiate's Degree, and her success was not less brilliant at the examination for the Doctor's Degree.—"Daily News" Paris Correspondent.]

"SENIORA FAWCETT."

So to be entitled henceforth, as she is Seniorer to the Senior Wrangler.

To Seniora Fawcett,

The Wranglers yield first place;

And now, first of the Law set,

One of another race,

Beauty, Brunette, Roumanian,

From man takes top Degree!

In learning's race Melanion

Is beaten, one can see,

By the new Atalanta;

At Law School or Sorbonne,

As at our native Granta,

The girls the prize have won.

Bravo, brunette Belcesco!

Some limner ought to draw

A quasi-classic fresco,

O Lady of the Law!

O Mathematic Maiden!

And show the pretty pair

With Learning's trophies laden

And manhood in a scare.

Ah, Portia of Paris!

Urania of the Cam!

Punch, whose especial care is

To sever truth from sham,

Is no great Woman's-Rightist,

But this is not clap-trap;

Of pundits the politest,

To you he lifts his cap!

Docteur en Droit, Punch watches

Miss Fawcett by the Cam;

To you she quick despatches

A friendly telegram.

He, friend of all the Nations,

Of Woman as of Man,

Adds his "felicitations."

Well done, Roumanian!!!

WEEK BY WEEK.

The prevalence of wet weather has had a painful effect on the aspect of the metropolitan streets. We do not refer so much to their having been universally inundated with rain, but rather to the absence from them of those pretty dresses in which it is customary for ladies to disport themselves during sunny weather. For instance, it was calculated the other day by a well-known wrangler, that if the tangential surface of a Bond Street pavement be represented by the formula:

x(π + y) = y + x - ⁄x,

the decrease in the number of pedestrians appearing on a wet day may be set down as 18426 ⁄52.

A Correspondent calls our attention to the prevalence of green on the various trees of the Metropolis. "This phenomenon," he observes, "is noticeable in May and early June every year. Some trees are greener than others, whilst others scarcely come up to the standard of leafy verdure displayed by their fellows. Taking the trees in the Park and arranging them in the inverse ratio of their distances at rectangular intervals from the common centre of their growth, it will be found that the surface area of a Plane-tree is equal to exactly five hundred times the cubic capacity of a gooseberry bush, measured from a point on its inner circumference."

Miss Robinson, Mrs. Touche-Arming, and Lady Cordelia Crossbit, were photographed yesterday. We hear that excellent likenesses of these brilliant ornaments of the Upper Ten have been secured.

The wonderful tameness and docility of the three African lions now going through their daily performance at the French Exhibition at Earl's Court, have astonished no less than pleased all who have witnessed them, but it is not generally known, that their obedient condition is due to their diet....