"What sort of a ticket does your suffragette club favor?"
"Well," replied young Mrs. Torkins, "if we owned right up, I think most of us would prefer matinée tickets."
See also Woman suffrage.
SUICIDE
The Chinese Consul at San Francisco, at a recent dinner, discussed his country's customs.
"There is one custom," said a young girl, "that I can't understand—and that is the Chinese custom of committing suicide by eating gold-leaf. I can't understand how gold-leaf can kill."
"The partaker, no doubt," smiled the Consul, "succumbs from a consciousness of inward gilt."