PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 103.



August 27, 1892.




TWO-PENN'ORTH OF THEOSOPHY.

(_A SKETCH AT THE ISLINGTON ARCADIA._)

SCENE--_The Agricultural Hall. A large Steam-Circus is
revolving with its organ in full blast; near it is a
"Razzle-Dazzle" Machine, provided with a powerful mechanical
piano. To the combined strains of these instruments, the
merrier hearts of Islington are performing a desultory dance,
which seems to consist chiefly in the various couples charging
each other with desperate gallantry. At the further end of
the Hall is a Stage, on which a Variety Performance is in
progress, and along the side of the gallery a Switchback, the
rolling thunder of which, accompanied by masculine whoops and
feminine squeaks, is distinctly audible. Near the entrance
is a painted house-front with two doors, which are being
pitilessly battered with wooden balls; from time to time