(_Long silence._)

MAN. (_With sudden enthusiasm._) "I'll tell you, though, I really do
look well in evening dress."

GIRL. "I haven't a doubt of it, even though I've never seen you wear
it."

MAN. (_After brief meditation._) "Let's go and hear Melba next week,
will you? I meant to ask you when I first came in, but we got to
reading."

GIRL. "I shall be charmed."

_Next day, GIRL gets a box of chocolates and a dozen American
Beauties--in February at that._

[Sidenote: Dimples and Dress Clothes]

Tell a man he has a dimple and he will say "where?" in pleased surprise,
meanwhile putting his finger straight into it. He has studied that
dimple in the mirror too many times to be unmindful of its geography.

Let the woman dearest to a man say, tenderly: "You were so handsome
to-night, dear--I was proud of you." See his face light up with noble,
unselfish joy, because he has given such pleasure to others!

All the married men at evening receptions have gone because they "look
so well in evening dress," and because "so few men can wear dress