(See Special Communication to "Times," October 25.)


THE ENGLISH WIFE.

[Max O'Rell says that the English wife sits opposite to her husband at the fireside in the evening with her curl-papers in her hair.]

Air—"She wore a Wreath of Roses."

She wore a wreath of roses,

The night when first we met;

Her hair, with careful oiling,

Looked shiny, black, and wet.