Mrs. Smiley: “I make it a rule never to ask a lady to return money she has borrowed from me.”
Mrs. Dobson: “Then how do you manage to get it?”
Mrs. Smiley: “Oh, after I have waited a considerable time, if she fails to pay up, I conclude that she is not a lady, and then I ask her.”
Musical Performers.—The question has recently been asked whether it is justifiable for a pianist to express to her hearers what she conceives to be the emotional characteristics of the music she is playing by facial play and gesticulations? Certainly not.
THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH.
By ISABELLA FYVIE MAYO, Author of “Other People’s Stairs,” “Her Object in Life,” etc.
CHAPTER XXIV.
GOOD SAMARITANS.