Well, you know that is not the way to make things pleasant about a
house.

Still, with all his faults we like the comic man. He is not always in
trouble and he does not make long speeches.

Let us bless him.



THE LAWYER.

He is very old, and very long, and very thin. He has white hair. He
dresses in the costume of the last generation but seven. He has bushy
eyebrows and is clean shaven. His chin itches considerably, so that
he has to be always scratching it. His favorite remark is "Ah!"

In real life we have heard of young solicitors, of foppish solicitors,
of short solicitors; but on the stage they are always very thin and
very old. The youngest stage solicitor we ever remember to have seen
looked about sixty--the oldest about a hundred and forty-five.

By the bye, it is never very safe to judge people's ages on the stage
by their personal appearance. We have known old ladies who looked
seventy, if they were a day, turn out to be the mothers of boys of
fourteen, while the middle-aged husband of the young wife generally
gives one the idea of ninety.

Again, what appears at first sight to be a comfortable-looking and