"ALL IS NOT GOLD," &c.
Gentleman (in waiting for his Wife, at "Great Annual Sale," to Head of Department). "You must do an enormous Business on Days like this."
Head of Department. "Not so much as you might fancy. The great majority of the People here to-day are Shopping—not Buying!"
THE WORST OF HAVING "A DAY."
Edith. "Here come those dreadful Bores, the Brondesbury-Browns! How Tactless of them, to come and see us on the only Day in the Week we're at Home!"
"NOBODY LOOKING!"
["We will not evacuate Madagascar ... we will pursue the advantages we have gained ... Madagascar will become a flourishing French Colony. (Cheers.) ... Our freedom of action is complete. There can be no foreign interference."—M. Hanotaux on the French Expedition to Madagascar.]