The finest of Raphael's canvases would make a poor overcoat.
[Illustration: The Shipwrecked Traveler.]
The Discontented Woman.
A woman who was dissatisfied with her husband loudly petitioned Jove to
send her another. The god listened favorably to her petition and sent her
a demigod.
In less than a week the woman was bewailing her lot again, saying she never
cared for mixed goods anyhow, and that while the god-half of her present
husband might be all right, the man-half snored and chewed tobacco. Jove,
wearied by her ill-humored persistency, took back the demi-god and sent her
a man out of the Yellow Book for husband, instead.
Up to the present writing the lady in question hasn't discovered where she
is at.