WITTY TOASTS.
"Woman, the fairest work in all creation. The edition is large, and no man should be without a copy." Further, in regard to the fair sex, we have: "Woman, she needs no eulogy; she speaks for herself."
In regard to matrimony, some bachelor once gave: "Marriage, the gate through which the happy lover leaves his enchanted ground and returns to earth."
At a supper given to a writer of comedies a wag said, "The writer's very good health. May he live to be as old as his jokes." From a lay critic: "The bench and the bar. If it were not for the bar there would be little use for the bench."
A celebrated statesman, while dining with a duchess on her eightieth birthday, in proposing her health, said. "May you live, my lady duchess, until you begin to grow ugly." "I thank you, sir," she said, "and may you long continue your taste for antiquities."
Real happiness is cheap enough, but how dearly we sometimes pay for its counterpart!
"I'm buying a washing machine for my wife as a birthday present" "That will be a surprise, eh?" "Yes. quite! Sho'R expecting a new car."
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LX, Issue 3111, 12 May 1930, Page 7
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