Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4634, 10 November 1883, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

An Ohioßgirllhad a lover whose cravat insisted on dancing about his collar and fixing itself in positions calculated to give the young man a ridiculous appearance. She offered one evening to tie the cravat fast. She pinned through the collar into her own finger. She was < aware of what occurred at once, and she screamed. She was blessed with a five feet and a half father and two six feet brothers. These gentlemen heard her scream and they came in to see what the row was about. The lover looked guilty and sheepisb,"and there were tears in the eyes of the girl.' When the lover picked himself up at the foot of the stairs he entered into an explanation of the occurrence with the gentlemen, who were standing-^at the head of the stairway. " Why didn't you say so before ?" growled the father; "all this fuss about nothing." The following new rendering of an old story appears in an old Italian author: "Hercules meets, at a cross-road, two women equally beautiful, but in different styles. The one is called Virtue and the other Pleasure. They point to roads going in opposite directions, and each invitet the hero to accompany her. Hercules* much perplexed, for they were equally beautiful, and he loved them both at sight, at length said : " Yen, you are both right; but there is a third road—let us all take that; and I will have the pleasure of accompanying you both without being impolite to either." After some hesitation this compromise was agreed to; and, perhaps, this moral fable accounts for the fact that now we seldom meet a man who is either a complete sinner or a perfect saint.