First Bather, "Did you take your doctor's opinion before having a Turkish Bath?"
Second Bather, "My Dear Fellow! Take the opinion of a man who told me to my face that tobacco was injurious?"
Punch cartoon by Gunning King (1859-1940)
William Gunning King trained at the South Kensington School of Art and later at the Royal Academy in London. He was a regular contributor to Punch, and exhibited at the Sketching Society. From 1878 he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Grosvenor Gallery, and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
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