CHANGED HER OPINION.

Ethelwynde: “They say she married a common mechanic.”

Heliotroype: “Common, Ethelwynde? Why, he had spent all his life in a bicycle manufactory!”

Ethelwynde: “Oh, heavens! Although a man-hater for years, I feel that I could love such a man as that with my innermost soul!”

PATRIOTIC.

Boy (reading “Personals”): “A young man of means wishes to meet a young and attractive lady who would be willing to marry and spend part of the year abroad.”

Young Lady (matrimonially inclined): “That’d suit me izzackly, exceptin’ the livin’ abroad. I’d rather go roun’ wid me basket in America, dan be presented to de nobility in London.”