CUPID'S CORNER.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 620, 15 November 1890, Page 12

CUPID'S CORNER.

LOVE, which is such a little thing; is still the moafr serious- thing- in life.r-Lemontey. : - ]■>

'There's something about Annie I doh'jj like,'?remarked Charlie, ~w"heri he saw Harry's arm around her waist. - :> •■•-.'.; f > •"- •■:

A lingering lover' is very much.' like/ the .article offered by an auctioneer. He is always ' going ' for some time before he's ' gone.' - ' ■ ' . -

CiiARA (to bride) : 'How many times did Harry kiss you when you accepted him?' Bride: 'Ask me something easy. Could Napoleon count all the bullets fired, at Austerlitz !'

Yes, Augustus, we believe it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. It is better for the jeweller, and the florist, and the messenger boy-^---and sometimes for the lawyers.

Ah, lady ! Love may lightly come, But Love can never lightly go ; For 'tis not Love thatfadeth so, And leaves the heart and pulses numb, — J. L. Kelly

' Look here, you have been calling upon the family of Colonel S for several years ; how is it you don't marry one of his five daughters ?' ' Haw— you see, I should. not like to disappoint the others !'

' How happens it, Julia — that rinsr on your finger — That costly and elegant new solitaire ? And why in the parlour s 3 long did you linger Last evening ? I thought you detested young Blair ?' ' "Why, that's what I told that horrid young man, sir,' fc^aid Julia, and blushed to the roots of her hair. ' But, papa, he wouldn't take no for an answer, And— he brought— a good deal— of— pressure to bear.''