FEMININE AMENITIES

Mabel (not in her first youth). "First of all he held my hand and told my fortune; and then, Evie, he gazed into my face ever so long, and said he could read my thoughts! Wasn't that clever of him, dear?"

Evie. "Oh, I suppose he read between the lines, darling."


New Version.—It was the reflection of a thoughtful hall-porter that the self-denying man must be the man who says he is not at home when he is.


A Discharge without a Report.—A servant dismissed without a character.