QUITE CORRECT.
Dear Mr. Punch,—In your number of Oct. 5, "An Inconstant Traveller" quotes Mrs. Malaprop as saying "Caparisons are odorous." Perhaps it may interest him to know that the quotation correctly reads thus:—
"Mrs. Malaprop. No caparisons, Miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.—The Rivals, Act IV., Sc. 2."
"Comparisons are odorous," occurs in Much Ado about Nothing, Act III., Sc. 5.
Yours,
Hettie Setterer.
P.S. Enclosed advertisement is from the Willesden Chronicle:—
Young person, 23, short, dark, strict disciplinarian, wishes to correspond with gentleman between 40 and 50, with view to matrimony.
What a "strict disciplinarian" to begin in this way. And after?