WAIT FOR AGE.

Seventeen. "Is marriage a failure? I should like to know!"

Seven-and-Twenty. "My dear, when as long as myself you have tarried,

You will not need much demonstration to show

That the only true failure is—not getting married!"


Female Definition of Leap Year.—Miss Understood.


A PLEASANT PROSPECT

Miss Kitty Candour (who has just accepted dear Reggie, and is now taking him fully into her confidence). "I must tell you, Reggie dear, that the great fault of my character is that after I have taken any resolution—it doesn't matter what it may be—I always bitterly repent it!"