Wanted, a Word-Slayer.

Fin de Siècle! Ah, that phrase, though taste spurn it, I

Fear, threatens staying with us to eternity.

Who will deliver

Our nerves, all a-quiver,

From that pest-term, and its fellow "modernity"?


AT THE DOOR; OR, PATERFAMILIAS AND THE YOUNG SPARK.

Electric Light. "WHAT, WON'T YOU LET ME IN—A DEAR LITTLE CHAP LIKE ME?"

Householder. "AH! YOU'RE A LITTLE TOO DEAR FOR ME—AT PRESENT."