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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2924, 29 June 1878, Page 2

. Social Tbiais.—An American journal sorrowfully observes :—" It is not a r«ry pleasant tiling to bring a friend home to dinner with you and to notice that your wife has taken down the parlour curtains, and that the room looks like a schoolhouse. It's worse still, when you inquire about the matter, for your better half to reply, with an ingenious smile, " That they are in , soak ! " But the climax is capped .on the. following day, when you hear it whispered . at the club that you really ought to gire I up inviting men to dinner when you're . 1 so poor that you're obliged to pawn your curtains." '." . She was a very modest girl, and when the observatory astronomer said " Take a glance through the telescope,-miss, an-T<^| you'll see Venus in all her glory,' 1 she ' frigidly drew back, and replied, " No, - thank you, sir; I have no desire to look „ at any member of my sex who dresses as she is represented to." A barefooted little boy stepped' On a bee, and soon after said to his mother : " Ma, I didn't know that bees had splinters in their tails!" -