At a lecture of Bayard Taylor's a lady wished for a seat, when a portly, handsome gentleman brought one, and seated her. "Oh, you're a jewel," said she. "Oh, no," he replied, "I'm a jeweller—I have just set the jewel!"
THINGS I SHOULD LIKE TO SEE.—525.
A fashionable bootmaker who was not "from Paris."
A gentleman who was not a self-constituted inspector of ladies' bonnet-linings.
A male pedestrian divorced from his cane who knew what to do with his hands.
A man who could hold an umbrella properly over a lady's bonnet; or put on her cloak, or shawl, without crushing her bonnet, or hair; or diet himself when he was ailing; or take physic that did not "taste good;" or be good-natured when he was sick, or had cut his chin in shaving, or had to wait ten minutes for his dinner or breakfast; or who was ever "refused" by a lady.
A bachelor whose carpet did not wear out first in front of the looking-glass.
A male author who could successfully counterfeit a feminine letter.
An editor, or author, who did not feel nervous at the idea of examining trunk-linings and parcel wrappers.