WHYS FOR THE WISE.
Why cannot a "Constant Reader" write a letter to a newspaper without an allusion to its "widely circulated columns?"
Why can a young gentleman never take to yachting without strengthening his language with "fo'ksle" expletives?
Why at a dinner party is it never thought permissible to call for cabbage except by its genteel synonym of "greens?"
Why does a cabman consider he degrades himself by acting civilly?
Why in a lodging-house can you never get your shaving-water without ringing twice for it?
Why do people with the smallest rooms invariably give the largest parties?
Why cannot musical critics speak of a voice without puzzling everybody by calling it an "organ?"
Why do fashionable people consider they lose caste by writing legibly?
Why cannot a husband get home late from a dinner-party without assuring his wife he was "the first to leave?"
And why cannot a wife inflict a "charring-day" upon her husband without the additional torture of a cold leg of mutton?
Great Theatrical Strike.—A Combat of Six at the Victoria.