Genre:

Miscellaneous, Drollery

Subjects:

Crime, Dissection, Display, Museums

    Suggests that the bodies of time-killers be 'denied the rites of sepulture, and that they be publicly exhibited in terrorem, as a warning to others'. Continues: 'In the last age, those who were guilty of murder were hung in chains; more recently, their bodies are dissected, and the skeletons are placed in Surgeon's Hall. Now I propose that a separate apartment in that edifice be allotted to the Time-killers; that twice in every year the readers of the Youths' Magazine shall visit these remains, and be distinctly informed, that if they follow such examples they must expect the same end'. The writer reports that a youth of his acquaintance who was in danger of becoming a time-waster, was soon corrected by being 'threatened [...] with a niche in the Museum'. (384)