affluence.

But the crowning triumph came still later, in a letter from the editor
of one of the great magazines. Jimaboy got it at the _Times_ office, and
some premonition of its contents made him keep it until Isobel could
share it.

"We have been watching your career with interest," wrote the great man,
"and we are now casting about for some one to take charge of a humorous
department to be called 'Bathos and Pathos,' which we shall, in the near
future, add to the magazine. May we see more of your work, as well as
some of Mrs. Jimaboy's sketches?

"O Jimmy, dear, you found yourself at last!"

But his smile was a grin. "No," said he; "we've just got our diplomas
from the Post-Graduate School of W. B.--that's all."

A RULE OF THREE

BY WALLACE RICE

There is a rule to drink, I think,
A rule of three
That you'll agree
With me
Can not be beat
And tends our lives to sweeten:
_Drink ere you eat_,
_And while you eat_,
_And after you have eaten_!

HOW THE MONEY GOES

BY JOHN G. SAXE

How goes the Money?--Well,
I'm sure it isn't hard to tell;
It goes for rent, and water-rates,
For bread and butter, coal and grates,
Hats, caps, and carpets, hoops and hose,--
And that's the way the Money goes!

How goes the Money?--Nay,
Don't everybody know the way?
It goes for bonnets, coats and capes,
Silks, satins, muslins, velvets, crapes,
Shawls, ribbons, furs, and furbelows,--
And that's the way the Money goes!

How goes the Money?--Sure,
I wish the ways were something fewer;
It goes for wages, taxes, debts;
It goes for presents, goes for bets,
For paint, _pommade_, and _eau de rose_,--
And that's the way the Money goes!

How goes the Money?--Now,
I've scarce begun to mention how;
It goes for laces, feathers, rings,
Toys, dolls--and other baby-things,
Whips, whistles, candies, bells and bows,--
And that's the way the Money goes!

How goes the Money?--Come,
I know it doesn't go for rum;
It goes for schools and sabbath chimes,
It goes for charity--sometimes;
For missions, and such things as those,--
And that's the way the Money goes!

How goes the Money?--There!
I'm out of patience, I declare;
It goes for plays, and diamond pins,
For public alms, and private sins,
For hollow shams, and silly shows,--
And that's the way the Money goes!

A CAVALIER'S VALENTINE

(1644)

BY CLINTON SCOLLAR