PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 103.



August 20, 1892.




AD PUELLAM.

["Detective cameras have become favourite playthings with
ladies of fashion."--_Ladies' Paper_.]

You used to prate of plates and prints
And "quick developers" before,
In spite of not unfrequent hints
That these in time become a bore;
But then this photographic craze
Seemed little but a foolish fad,
While now its very latest phase
Appears to me distinctly bad.

Since even your devoted friends
At sight of you were wont to fly,
You manage still to gain your ends,