Major MacFall tells an amusing anecdote of a well-known literary man who had been selected at a certain gathering to propose the. toast of "Beautiful Women." He spoke somewhat patronizingly of women, implying that they had very little more than beauty to boast about: and when he sat down.the toastmaster called upon la dainty little lady to reply in the form of a toast to "Mere man."
The lady rose and she had a dangerous gleam in her eye.
"Zadies and gentlemen," she said, "man is but clay in the hands: of a woman—and she generally {makes a mug of hin——"
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