To A Chaperone.
Here's to the chaperone,
May she learn from Cupid
Just enough blindness
To be sweetly stupid.
—Oliver Herford.
For a Patriotic Dinner.
If we drink to China, we drink the poison of the "Sick Man of the East;" if we drink to Italy, we put "The Boot" on the wrong foot; if we drink to Peru, we burn our lips on the equator; so let us drink to him who hath not harm in his heart, venom in his veins, nor flaw in his flag—Uncle Sam.
Let us toast our huddled little brothers of the frigid North—the Esquimaux. They need it.