CRISP TOASTS.
1 A magazine had been collecting some witty and amusing toasts given at banquets. Here are some:— 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 lie eulogised as "a delectable dear, so sweet that honey would blush in her presence, j' and molasses stand appalled." . At the marriage supper of a deaf and dumb couple one guest, in the speech of the evening, wished them "unspeakable bliss." ' A writer of comedies was giving a Banquet' in honor of his,....latest work, at'which a jovial guest gr.ve the toast: "The author's very'go'qd health;!. May, he live to be as old as his jokes." At another gathering were- toasted: "The■ Bench aiid the Bar; if it were not for the by.v, 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 ail the men to boot."
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Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14436, 30 October 1914, Page 7
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179CRISP TOASTS. Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14436, 30 October 1914, Page 7
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