Tue wife and I take a keen interest in astrology, but——Well, she arose the other morning in a simply vile temper. She snapped at the children, scowled at our daily help, and just stormed at me. Now, I admit that she is normally cheerful, but I felt moved to remonstrate with her over this unwonted display of ill-temper.
"Back came her retort in a flash. "Its all right for you," she snapped; "your stars warned you that you would need abundant patience. Mine told me that I should be sorely tried and irritable today. I can't alter that, can I? If we quarrel today, it must be your fault."
Devilish, this woman's logic.
Tories are Up the Pole Tug latest "auction of a Conservative seat is going on in the Abbey Division of Westminster. Local Conservatives hope to get a candidate who will guarantee them £1,000 a year, and also pay his own election expenses, A Conservative seat is for sale—To make the position quite clear—But the need is of one who won't pale At spending a thousand a year: Election expenseséare not Included, of course, in that sum, And so far the "buyers" are what You well might call mum.
The primary need, as I've said, Is not—it appears—of a man Well spoken and sound in the head, "Tis rather of cash in the can: But it strikes me as pitiful that He should never catch up what he owes, And, for making a speech through his hat, He should pay through the nose.
—By F. G. H. Salusbury in the "Daily Herald."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.