CUPID'S CORNER.

Observer, Volume XI, Issue 666, 3 October 1891, Page 4

CUPID'S CORNER.

' If marriage is a failure,' said Blinks, ' what on earth is an engagement ?' ' Only, a temporary embarrassment,' said Maude.

He : ' I didn't get your last letter. 1 She (pouting) : ' And I set you a kis3 in it.' Ha : ' How unbusiness-like you are 1 Don't you know that letters containing valuables should be registered ?' He was allowed to kiss away the pout.

A young man blackened his moustache with a crayon, and then took his girl out for a moonlight stroll. When the fair one appeared in the bright light of the family circle a couple of hours later her face looked very much like a railway map.

Tommy (at the dinner-table) : ' Mr Johnson, are you blind ?' Mr Johnson : « No, my boy ; why do you ask ?' Tommy : ' Why, nothin' ; only sister said you'd get an eye-opener in that Jones girl.'

' Will you marry me ?' • Do you love me for myself alone ?' ' Why, of course. Do you suppose I loved you for the sake of your six maiden aunts and four old maid sisters ? Don't be unjust, Clara.'

Ella. : 'Pa says we can't marry for ten years. Bu don't look so sad, George ; you are young yet.' George : • Yes, I know I am, dearest. I wasn't thinking of myself, but of you, love.' It was at once put off indefinitely.