[THE SEVEN AGES.]
I liken myself to Shakespeare's "Seven ages." I have been the baby, the schoolboy, the lover, and the warrior, and I am now the Justice, but unlike the poet's justice, I can not boast of "a fair round belly with good capon lined." Having disappointed the poet in one thing, I hope to disappoint him in another, and not to degenerate into a "lean and slippered pantaloon."
Servants' Ball,
January 10th, 1893.
[A DELICATE POINT.]
"Some difficulty might be experienced in getting the ladies to wear the costumes of those districts."
The bazaar may be described as an "European fair," because the stalls represent most of the nations of Europe. The reason for that is that if we went to Africa or other dark countries, some difficulty might be experienced in getting the ladies to wear the costumes of those districts.
Opening of "World's Fair" Bazaar, Newport,
April 29th, 1891.