member of the household who hasn't a large closet all
to himself, with rows of, shiny hooks on which to hang his duds.

Ah, yes, why not make room for daddy? It is impossible to contemplate
daddy's pathetic condition without bursting into tears. Votes for women?
Huh! Hooks for men!

* * *

"NATION-WIDE."

How anybody can abide
That punk expression, "nation-wide"--

How one can view unhorrified
That vile locution, nation-wide,

I cannot see. I almost died
When first I spotted nation-wide.

On every hand, on every side,
On every page, is nation-wide.

To everything it is applied;
No matter what, it's nation-wide.

The daily paper's pet and pride:
They simply dote on nation-wide.

It seems if each with t'other vied
To make the most of nation-wide.

No doubt the proof-room Argus-eyed
Approves the "style" of nation-wide.

My colleagues fall for it, but I'd
Be damned if I'd use nation-wide.

It gets my goat, and more beside,
That phrase atrocious, nation-wide.

Abomination double-dyed,
Away, outrageous "nation-wide"!

* * *

Speaking of local color, B. Humphries Brown and Bonnie Blue were wedded
in Indianapolis.

* * *

Married, in Evansville, Ind., Ellis Shears and Golden Lamb. Something
might be added about wool-gathering.

* * *

Embarrassed by the riches of modern literature at our elbow, we took
refuge in Jane Austen, and re-read "Mansfield Park," marvelling again at
its freshness. They who hold that Mark Twain was not a humorist, or that
he was at best an incomplete humorist, have an argument in his lack of
appreciation of Jane Austen.

* * *

One of the most delightful things about the author of "Mansfield Park"
that we have seen lately is an extract from "Personal Aspects of Jane
Austen," by Miss Austen-Leigh. "Each of the novels," she says, "gives a
description, closely interwoven with the story and concerned with its
principal characters, of error committed, conviction following, and
improvement effected, all of which may be summed up in the word
'Repentance.'"

* * *

Almost as good is Miss Austen-Leigh's contradiction of the statement
that sermons wearied Jane. She quotes the author's own words: "I am
very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, and prefer them to almost any." What a
lot of amusement she must have had, shooting rel