If she’ll only be warm in the heart.

—Life.

August Twenty-second

“Do you think old maids live longer than widows?”

Old maid—“It seems longer.”

August Twenty-third

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly: he wants to make sure o’ one fool as ’ll tell him he’s wise.

—George Eliot.

August Twenty-fourth

Husbands are in heaven whose wives chide them not.