And that's the truth of it.


ANOMALIES OF FEMININITY.

Why is it that Miss birdie Montressor (of the Palaceum) attends the Artists' Ball at Covent Garden like this?
While Mrs. Dumperley-Browne (of West Kensington) appears as above?

THE AUTHOR.

I was reading proofs in my corner of the compartment, as I often do, and every time that I looked up I noticed the little shabby pathetic man with his eyes fixed upon me.