Hostess. "Oh, thank you for your lovely Music, Herr Blumentoff! It's just what I like. It blends so perfectly with the Conversation without in the least interrupting it!"


WAITING THEIR TURN.

(In the Hot Room, St. Stephen's Baths, Westminster.)

Bath-Man, loquitur:

Pouf! 'Tis slow work! Were I a Turk,

Fancy I'd put it through more expeditiously!

Poor little Bills! Funkiness fills

All their small souls! See 'em glancing suspiciously,

Timid and torrid! Finding it horrid