AMUSING TO ASTS
A witty toast is sure of evoking applause and promoting jollity, and good after-dinner speakers are amongst the most popular of men. That these flashes of wit are not always unpremeditated is a fact that does not make them the less acceptable. A rather cynical toast ran thus:—"Woman, she requires no eulogy ; she speaks for herself." A gallant young man, under the same festal circumstances, referred to one member of the sex he eulogised as " a delectable dear, so sweet that honey would blush in her presence, and treacle stand appalled." At the marriage breakfast of a deaf and dumb couple, one guest, in the speech of the evening, wished them "unspeakable bliss." A writer of comedies was given a banquet in honor of his latest work, at which a jovial guest gave the toast; "The Author's Very Good Health! May he live to be as old as his jokes! " At another gathering weTe toasted " The Bench and the Bar; if it were not for the Bar, there would be little use for the Bench." As pithy was the following toast, proposed at a shoemakers' dinner:—"May we have all the women in the country to shoe, and all the men to boot."
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Evening Star, Issue 12165, 8 April 1904, Page 7
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205AMUSING TO ASTS Evening Star, Issue 12165, 8 April 1904, Page 7
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