To try to break your husband's bank
At Monte Carlo,

Would ill beseem your daughter "smart;"
The vulgar slang of bacchant mummers,
If act you must is scarce the part
For sixty summers.

Let Age be decent: keep your hair
Confined, if nothing else, to one dye:
I'd rather see you, I declare,
Like Mrs. GRUNDY!

* * * * *

THE PRIVATE AND THE PUBLIC.

(_What it may come to._)

["If we are obliged to go into the open market for our soldiers, and
compete with other employers of labour, we must bid as highly as they
do, in pay, hours of work, and general conditions and comfort."--_Daily
Paper on the Report of Lord Wantage's Committee._]

SCENE--_A Public Place._

Sergeant KITE _and a_ Possible Recruit _in conversation._

_Sergeant Kite_ (_continuing_). Then you must remember that we are
exceedingly generous in the matter of rations.