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Paperback. Condición: As new. Reprint. As new trade paperback appears unread clean binding, no spine crease; clean and unmarked contents. For example, an April 16, 1887, Punch cartoon entitled"LITTLE MISS BUDGET" (Fig. 1) depicts a butler and a young girl discussing the propercourse of dinnerix. As the young girl asks for dessert, the butler smirks. This interaction showshow it was culturally acceptable for males to overindulge and gain weight, but young women hadto be more careful. In the cartoon, the staunch butler admonishes the little girl for wantingdessert after the first course. He sneers, "Oh dear no! You'll have to wait a bit yet. We've onlyjust got to the second course!" The butler, wearing an elegant tuxedo and holding a bottle ofwine, looks appalled at the little girl's request. He cannot imagine where the young girl learnedsuch poor manners. After all, a good Victorian lady would never indulge in dessert: she wouldabstain. Despite his social class, the butler believes that his size gives him the authority toadmonish the young girl.Though the butler is in a service position himself, the cartoon does not show himdelivering meals to anyone. Instead, he stands with a bottle of expensive wine in his hand, hisfoot pointing outward in an expression of high society. However, the butler's arrogance indicatesto the little girl knows that she must listen. She has a fist resting under her chin as if to say"please" to the butler. Her mouth, turned down in disappointment, shows her sadness to thebutler's reaction. No, she will not have dessert next. But, she will learn to control her desire andurges so that she will become a respectable Victorian lady one day.The illustration presents the divide between social class and gender, yet the little girlrealizes neither. It is clear that the little girl has extra weight or "baby fat" on her body; althoughshe has not yet learned to abstain, the butler aims to teach her. Even though the girl appears to befrom the family who hired the butler, he utilizes his paunch to taunt and tease her. He strives to 82teach her that Victorian women must maintain a small waist while Victorian men must preservelarger figures in order to exert dominance. Despite the butler acting in a service position, hisbody gives him the authority needed to prevent the little girl from eating dessert before the mealor eating dessert at all.