that she makes her husband a happy man if the health of his wife can
make a man happy; as of course it can or should: whereas her illness at
least makes him very much the reverse. By exercise in the open air is
acquired that soundness of condition, accompanied by mental serenity and
beauty of complexion which can never result from dancing in an
atmosphere of carbonic acid--the only purpose for which many, many
ladies use their legs. What MR. DUNN'S partner costs him for shoes, we
are sure he does not grudge, and he would be a fool if he did, for it is
much cheaper that she should walk him out a little leather than that she
should stand him in a large quantity of medicine: to say nothing of the
cabs and omnibuses which are frequently required to travel a hundred
yards or so by other wives.

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BRITISH OBSEQUIES IN SPAIN

If you wish to save your Succession Duty, reform your Undertaker's
Bills. There is nothing to prevent you but the censure of the lowest
vulgar--the mob that does not think for itself: a mob composed of quite
as many well dressed persons as ragamuffins. Unfortunately, however,
this populace may be able to injure as well as hoot you; and that power
it will exercise if you do not conform to its idiotisms; one of which
is, the addition of upholstery to ashes, and drapery to dust.

It would therefore be a great boon to you--being a wise man, and
likewise an executor or a legatee charged with an interment--if your
expenditure were subject to be regulated by the subjoined ordinance:--

"In conveying dead bodies to the burial-ground every kind of pomp
and publicity shall be avoided."

They manage these matters better in Spain, you will say: for this is one
of the articles of a Royal decree that has been issued at Madrid.

But it is also ordained in the same decree, that

"No church, chapel, nor any other sign of a temple or of public or
private worship will be allowed to be built in the aforesaid
cemetery."

Now, the aforesaid cemetery is the Protestant cemetery. And it is
further declared that

"All acts which can give any indication of the performance of any
divine service whatever are prohibited."

The above regulations will be found in a Parliamentary paper recently
published, containing official correspondence between GENERAL LERSUNDI
and LORD HOWDEN, relative to the Protestant Cemetery aforesaid at
Madrid. The noble Lord's re