Molly listened in silence, thought hard for a few moments, and then said, wisely:
"Yes, when it's me it's temper; when it's you it's nerves."
TEMPERANCE
THE MAN (to a New York waiter)—"—and a glass of good beer!"
THE WAITER—"Sorry, sir. We only serve temperance beverages."
THE MAN—"Why, I got beer in Rhode Island."
THE WAITER—"Maybe you did, sir. But that was only by an act of Providence."
A temperance lecturer was enthusiastically denouncing the use of all intoxicants.