The Widow. Diogenes pauses. The theme is too great for him. Vide Mr. Weller, sen., in Pickwick, passim.


TRITE BUT TRUE

"Music's the food of love" they say,

This is a passage every one now quotes;

The truth is clear, for in the present day,

Young love is fed entirely on notes.


"Our Failures."—Husband. "I say, Lizzie, what on earth did you make this mint-sauce of?"

Young Wife (who has been "helping" Cook). "Parsley, to be sure!"