The Standard Union - Wednesday, May 22, 1895
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A Drawing That Drew.
The Marquis of Queensberry seems to have struck a sympathetic chord when he blacked the eye of his son, Lord Douglas. The Marquis is a humorist as well as a pugilist. He had seen in one of the weekly illustrated papers a drawing, representing a huge iguanodon, as it is supposed to have appeared in its prehistoric times, and he was struck with "a certain resemblance lurking in this picture." Therefore, he sent it to its son’s wife, endorsing it as a possible ancestor of Oscar Wilde, "and intending it more as a sort of good-natured joke than anything else." The "Herald" reporter, calling on the Marquis for testimony, says of the drawing:
"There was a touch of the humorous about the pleiocene beast’s attitude, and the Marquis could not refrain from chuckling as he drew my attention to it."
Lord Douglas met his venerable pason Piccadilly, and, calling him pet names, wanted to know what he meant by sending insulting letters to his daughter-in-law, and there was a little scrap, in which the young man got the worst of it, his "Awful Dad" having given him one in the eye as an admonition and in atonement, as it were, for any omission of parental severity in the bringing up of his distinguished offspring. The Marquis, whose rules are so famous, is a philosopher as well as a parent and a pugilist, and says, of course, there is a point of view from which such a thing is painful, but, he adds:
"From another I am rather glad of it. There has been bad blood between my son and myself for some time, and I think this encounter may have probably let some of it out. At all events, I feel more kindly disposed toward him than I have been for some years past, and I think very possibly he may think all the better of me."
"Of course I regard this evening's affair as very painful, from one point of view, but from another I am rather glad of it. There has been bad blood between my son and myself for some time, and I think this encounter may have probably let some of it out. At all events I feel more kindly disposed toward him than I have been for some years past, and I think very possibly he may think all the better of me."
"Of course I regard this evening's affair as very painful from one point of view, but from another I am rather glad of it. There has been bad blood between my son and myself for some time, and I think this encounter has probably let some of it out. At all events I feel more kindly disposed towards him than I have been for some years past, and I think very possibly he may think all the better of me."
The populace seem to have been charmed with the entertainment afforded in Piccadilly, and popular esteem and enthusiasm were with the Marquis.