Miss Priscilla. "AH, BUT WITH A TELESCOPE, YOU KNOW!"


AT LAST!

(Jeremiad by a Middle-aged Martyr to the great Seaside Superstition.)

["To middle-aged people, at all events, nothing can be more trying and deleterious than holidays."—Daily News.]

Oh, thanks to thee, thanks to thee, sage unconventional!

Heaven be blest, the truth's out, then, at last!

Holiday woes—'twould take volumes to mention all!—

Now, in the lump, meet a shrewd counterblast.

Trying? Of course they are! Most deleterious?