“Abdul Azis, the late Sultan of Morocco, bought a cheap boiler to drill a water-well. It bu’st and he is now Abdul Azwas.”
“We will never be buried with the ‘unknown dead’—we advertise.”
“Our patent coupling is the precipitated vapor of fermented progress.”
“The intellectual and æsthetic are provided for in consanguinity to their taste.”
“Our conversational soloists never descend to orthochromatic photography in their orphean flights; they hug the shore of plain Anglo-Saxon and scoop the doubting Thomas.”
“It will never do to shake a man because the lambrequins begin to appear on the bottom of his pants and he wears a ‘dickey’ with a sinker.”
“The Forget-me-nots of to-day are frequently found the Has-beens of to-morrow.”
“Credit is the flower that blooms in life’s buttonhole.”
“Many a man who now gives dinner-parties in a Queen-Anne front would be nibbling his Frankfurter in a Mary-Ann back had we not given him a helping hand at the right moment.”
