Mrs. Y. Well, if you will not stay.
[Mr. and Mrs. Muffle, and Mrs. Shivers, exeunt by the door. Mrs. Yawnley goes to the bell. Mr. Muffle taps on the weather-glass; the bell rings; and the glass, which is going down, falls considerably at the same moment as the curtain.]
A JUVENILE PARTY.
First Juvenile.—"That's a pretty girl talking to young Algernon Binks."
Second Juvenile.—"Hm—Tol-lol! You should have seen her some seasons ago."
THE KITCHEN RANGE OF ART.
Soyer, in his Modern Housewife, is quite angry that our great Painters have never busied themselves with "such useful and interesting subjects" as the subjects of the kitchen, instead of "continually tracing on innumerable yards of canvas the horrors of war, the destruction of a fire by fire or water, the plague, the storm, the earthquake." For this purpose, Soyer suggests some admirable historical events, connected with the Cuisine, on which artists might, with advantage, employ their genius. Among others, he mentions the following:
"Louis XIV., at Versailles, receiving from the hands of the Pacha the First Cup of Café ever made in France."