"SABLES."

Pastor. "How I do regret, my dear Madam, to see you wearing these sad Habiliments of Woe!" Widow. "'M ye-es. Black never did suit me!"


THE PALACE OF (ADVERTISING) ART.

(A Long Way After the Laureate.)

I found myself a huckster's pleasure-place,

Wherein 'twas horrible to dwell.

I said, "O Soul, the object of our race

Is ever one—to sell."