LADIES' LORE

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 337, 23 May 1885, Page 18

LADIES' LORE

"Women's Wisdom, "Weaknesses, and -... .:.-. A Worth.' - : -:,,

Young wife ; ' Dear, why are you eating so much more of my cake than usual tonight ? Is it nicer than it was last night ?' Young husband : 'I, raj darling — I — well, to tell truth, I bet Toozle five shillings that I weighed more than he did, and we are going to settle it to-night.'

Mrs Navvery — ' He do get drunk, sir and beat and abuse me awful.'

Good Clergyman — ' But you must be patient Hemember he is your husband, and illegible says if we love our enemies and do good to them, we will heap coals of fire on their head.'

Mrs Navvery — ( Well, sir, I never went as far as that, but I have tried boiling water.

A HANDY BECEIPT.

Her ey«s shone as an azure sea ; Pale, lily-white her skin : ■ Her niouth, as folded violets, Held scented sweets within. When flitted by a buzzing bee That to those lips did cling, I kissed them, nectar as they were, To heal the cruel sting.