BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

Municipal inflator preparing a coachman for an important public function.


A CRY FOR GUIDANCE.

(In a weekly paper, a correspondent—presumably in the first raptures—recommends falling in love as a cure for all worries.)

It is all very well to go talking like that,

But tell me, pray, how does one do it?

How feel at the sight of a hobble or hat

A passionate impulse to woo it?