"My dear Miss Antique, you must really take exercise for your health."
"All right, doctor," she replied, "I will certainly jump at the first offer."
To win the matrimonial race—
Oh, all ye maids who try—
You're lucky if you get a place
Resulting in a tie.
I remember asking this frisky old maid whether, in her opinion, women were really as brave as men.
She gave me a look of scorn.
"Far braver, sir; if you notice carefully all accounts upon the subject, you will learn that the scientists who keep on talking with alarm and even terror concerning the dreadful bacilli in a kiss, are every one of them males."
She has also very decided views as to the future of this glorious country, and while we were discussing the chances of America ever being dominated by a combined Europe, she said, emphatically:
"That will never happen, sir, so long as eminent Europeans continue to marry American girls."
I agreed with her, knowing from experience what an influence in the household the average American wife must ever be.