CHANGE OF INITIALS.

"Often as I may have been invited," Mr. T.M. HEALY is reported to have said, in the course of a recent speech, "I never yet put a toe inside his house." Memorable words. Henceforth, name changed to TOE-AND-HEALY, M.P.


A WORD TO MOTHERS.

[A well-known Dramatic Critic has recently spoken of a play as "just the play in which growing girls will delight.">[

O ANXIOUS Mothers, come and listen

To what just now I've got to say.

If I'm not wrong, your eyes will glisten

Before the end of this my lay.