A MODERN WAIST
Jones (to himself, as he offers Miss Vane a cup of tea and some strawberries): "By Jove! She takes 'em—she's going to swallow 'em! But where she'll put 'em—goodness knows!"
TO UPHOLSTERERS, etc.
Now that fashionable skirts are worn so tight that the fair wearers thereof can neither stoop nor sit down, it might be worth somebody's while to devise a chair suited to the peculiar exigencies of the positions.
FASHIONABLE EMULATION
Lady (speaking with difficulty): "What have you made it round the waist, Mrs. Price?"