EASTERN POLITENESS

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

EASTERN POLITENESS

Some European ladies, passing through Constantinople, paid a visit to a certain high Turkish functionary.- The host. offered them 4-efreshments, including;' a great Variety- of sweetmeats, always taking care to give to one of the ladies double the quantity he gave to the others. Flattered by this marked attention, slie put the question through the interpreter — , ' Why do you serve me more liberally than the jest?'. ; ■ ■ ;; . , ' Because you have a larger mouth,' was the reply.

A new opera is called ' The Orange Girl.' It is expected to provoke ' peels ' of laughterWomen will never be as well paid for lecturing as men, simply because they have done so much of the thing for nothing. Just as a lover dropped on his knees and began popping the question, a pet poodle, who thought the proceeding rather strange, made a dash for him. With remarkable nerve for a .woman the girl reached over, grabbed the dog by the neck, at the same time calmly uttering : 'Go on, George, dear. I am listening to what you are saying.' ' Darling,' he said, as he tried to tickle his wife under the chin, ' why am I like the moon ?' ' You are not like the moon, John Henry, in any particular.' ' Why, how do you make that out, my dear V ' Because the moon has been full but twice this month.' He says that isn't the right answer. Bridget — Oi have a shurprise in shtore for yez, Patrick. Patrick — Have yez, an' phat is it ? Bridget — It's a patent sthove-damper, me darlint. The agint tould me it wud save, wan-half the expinsein coal. Think ay that, Patrick, jist wan-half the expinso. Patrick — Faith, and did yez buy but wan ay them ? Bridget— That's all. Patrick — Shure an' ye are not schmart, Bridget. Why didn't yez buy two ay thim, an' wo wud save the whole expinse ?