THE TUBE CURE.

[It has been observed that employees in the Tubes never catch cold while at work, and doctors, questioned by an evening paper, have said that "the Tube atmosphere should be quite likely to cure a cold if breathed long enough—say for an hour at a stretch.">[

To-day, when I acquire a cold

(Rude Boreas having blustered),

I do not, as in times of old,

Immerse my feet in mustard;

I put a penny in a slot

At some Tube railway station

And draw a ticket for a not

Far distant destination.