FE WHEN I MARRIT _HER_."]

* * * * *

"THE WEATHER.

'Fair generally: night frosts,' is the forecast for the next 24
months."--_Provincial Paper._

The best news for a long time.

* * * * *

HOW TO BRIGHTEN VILLAGE LIFE.

"The exterior painting of the day school has been completed by the
Vicar, assisted by the caretaker. Their appearance is greatly improved
as a result."--_Provincial Paper._

* * * * *

"---- HOTEL DINING-ROOM.

OPEN TO NON-RESIDENTS WITH ORCHESTRAL ACCOMPANIMENT."--_Jersey Paper._

Residents, we understand, need only bring their mouth (and other) organs.

* * * * *

"Wanted, 'Cello (could reside in if desired)."--_Provincial Paper._

The housing problem solved at last.

* * * * *

Smith Minor says he would rather be called Smith Secundus. There is a
pleasanter sound about that qualification just now.

* * * * *

AT THE PLAY.

"A Night Out."

Everybody except myself seems to recall the fact that the late farce of
this name, adapted from _L'Hotel du Libre Echange_, ran for five hundred
nights before it expired. Some restorative music has now been applied to it
and the corpse has revived. Indeed there are the usual signs of another
long run. The trouble is that nearly all the cast at the Winter Garden
Theatre seem to think that, if the play is to run, they must run too. They
don't keep still for a moment, because they dare not. Even Mr. LESLIE
HENSON, whose fun would be more effective if he didn't try so hard, feels
that he must be at top pressure all the while with his face and his body
and his words. Yet he could well afford to keep some of his strength in
reserve, for he is a born humourist (in what one might perhaps call the
Golliwog vein). But, whether it is that he underrates his own powers or
that he can't contain himself, he keeps nothing in reserve; and the others,
less gifted, follow his lead. They persist in "pressing," as if they had no
confidence in their audience or their various authors or even themselves.

One is, of course, used to this with singers in musical comedy, who make a
point of turning the lyrics assigned to them into unintelligible patter.
Perhaps in the present case we lost little by that, though there was one
song (of which I actually