Edwin (embracing her). My own true love, nothing can part us now.
Curtain.
Crackers.
The youthful but indiscriminating would-be smoker will find unending bliss in the joys of Our Smoking-Room Concert, his pleasure though commencing with a bang won't end in smoke. Feminine hearts who long for the sunny south will revel in the Riviera Cosaque. Both these are warranted to "go off," through the inventive genius of our "crack" G. Sparagnapane.
THE TRUISMS OF LIFE.
(By the Right Hon. the Author of "The Platitudes of Life," M.P., F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D.)
Chapter II.—De Quibusdam Aliis.
"Cleanliness is next to Godliness"; so runs the witty aphorism; and modern bacteriologists "explain clearly the reason, and show why it is so,"[1] the italics not being in the original. The use of water is an effectual element in cleanliness. Men have been known to brush their teeth with it. Of soaps there are many; but water is practically one. "Πάντα ῥεῖ," said Thales. And, again, "There is a tide in the affairs of men,"[2] as Lord Byron put it, in confirmation of Shakspeare's previous statement.