"She has gone to the class."
"Why, what class?" inquired the caller in surprize.
"Well, mum, you know Miss Milly is getting married soon, so she's taking a course of lessons in domestic silence."
Mrs. Peavish says that if it were to do over again, no man need ever ask for her hand until he had shown his.
In London they tell of a certain distinguished statesman who is an optimist on all points save marriage.
One afternoon this statesman was proceeding along a country road when he saw a cottager eating his supper alone in the road before his dwelling.
"Why, Henry," asked the statesman, "why are you eating out here alone?"
"Well, sir, er—" the man stammered, "the—er—chimney smokes."