Genre:

Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Phrenology, Gender

    Reports on a phrenologist who wants Mr Punch to inform young ladies of 'the absurdity of wearing their hair a l'Impératrice, indiscriminately, and without reference to the shape of the forehead'. By 'aping' the French empress, he insists, ladies 'only show the poverty of their Imitation, and their sad deficiency in Wit'—the two phrenological organs that, owing to the arrangement of her hair, the Empress appears to possess in enlarged size.