tray cat compared with one's marriage vows? If the dear girl
wanted to keep the thing we would have it vetted, definitely named, and
warned as to followers.

Marjorie's voice interrupted my amiable planning. "Puss, puss," she
called. I joined her and stated my decision to relent.

"But she's vanished," said Marjorie. She had. And she has never come
back. Ah! those stray cats.

NINE LIVES SPENT WHERE?
FOUR-FOOTED NOMADS.
FICKLE FELINE FRIENDSHIPS.

"Look here, old girl," I said, "I take back all I said about your little
friend. I'm with you that she was the dearest, most hygienic, most moral
cat that ever strafed a mouse."

"Perhaps it's all for the best that she's gone," said Marjorie.

The dear girl inclined her head towards my shoulder. Well, well.

WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS
TO KNOW.
IS KISSING DYING OUT?
PRACTICIANS SAY "NO."

* * * * *

More Precocity.

"Unfurnished Rooms wanted (two or three), with attendance; one
child, 4-1/2 years; at business all day."--_Provincial Paper._

* * * * *

LOVE'S HANDICAP.

[A daily paper points out that many girls find their sweethearts in
print, and expresses the hope that when "a real man comes along he may
be as brave and tender, as cheery and clean-living," as these heroes of
fiction.]

Dear lady, put down for a minute
That book which you eagerly scan,
Intent upon finding within it
Your perfect ideal of a man;
Its pages reflectively closing,
Consider a moment the strain
Your standard may soon be imposing
Upon some susceptible swain.

Those heroes whose fortunes you follow
I've noticed are able to show
The unparalleled charms of Apollo,
The muscles of SAMSON and Co.;
But he who comes seeking to win you
May have, for supporting his plea,
A palpable shortage of sinew
And beauty distinctly C 3.

And, unprepossessing in mien, he
May also lack some of the art
With which Saccharissa the Tweeny
Was wooed by Sir Marmaduke, Bart.;
His tongue may (conceivably) stammer,
His heart (not impossibly) quake,
And in stress of emotion his grammar
May even develop a shake.

But pause ere you "spurn his addresses;"
His merits may still be as high
As the sort that your hero possesses,
Though they leap not so quick to the eye;
At the least, you've the comfort of knowing,
Since his h