TARDINESS
"You'll be late for supper, sonny," said the merchant, in passing a small boy who was carrying a package.
"No, I won't," was the reply. "I've dot de meat."—Mabel Long.
"How does it happen that you are five minutes late at school this morning?" the teacher asked severely.
"Please, ma'am," said Ethel, "I must have overwashed myself."
TARIFF
Why not have an illuminated sign on the statue of Liberty saying, "America expects every man to pay his duty?"—Kent Packard.
TASTE
"It isn't wise for a painter to be too frank in his criticisms," said Robert Henri at a luncheon. "I know a very outspoken painter whose little daughter called at a friend's house and said: