_A Warning to Wives who will keep bad Cooks_
Provisions raw
Long time he bore:
Remonstrance was in vain;
To escape the scrub
He join'd a club:
Nor dined at home again.
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MATRIMONY (_by our Musical Cynic_).--The common c(h)ord of two flats.
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[Illustration: DOMESTIC BLISS
_Little Foot Page_ (_unexpectedly_). "Here's some gentlemen, please,
sir!"]
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[Illustration:
"Can I go abroad to finish, ma?"
"No. It's time you were married--and men don't care how ill-educated a
woman is."
"You shouldn't judge everybody by pa, ma!"]
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[Illustration: LEAVING THE PARENTAL NEST
_The Bride's Father_ (_to Bridegroom_). "Oh, John, you'll take _care_ of
her, _won't_ you!"]
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