Master Tom (to Old Lady who is very nervous about fire). "It's all right, Granma! My candle is out. I'm only smoking my Usual Weed!"
PLAIN FARE AT THE PALACE.
The Court Circular informed us the other day that "there was no addition to the Royal dinner yesterday." We should not have had the impertinence to speculate on the bill of fare at the Palace, had we not been, as it were, invited to the subject by the Court Newsman, who tells us that there was "no addition to the Royal dinner." We can only compliment those who have the arrangement of the Palace provisions on their frugality, which in these days of dear provisions is a virtue that all housekeepers would do well to imitate.
If there was "no addition to the Royal dinner," it is clear that the Royal Family must, on the day in question, have been eating cold—or at most hashed—the "joint" of the day previous. We confess we do not like the idea of the younger branches being deprived of any of those little luxuries so dear to juvenile as well as to "other lips and other hearts;" and, therefore, in the event of any future announcement of "no addition to the Royal dinner," we should be glad to read the extra intimation "but there was a pudding in the nursery."