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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4819, 19 June 1884, Page 2

. Mrs Jenkins: "Dear me, Matilda Jane, it a no use trying to be aris'.oeretie any . longer. Ivo done erery&irg. mortal woman could since, your pa? did so well in lumber, but the obstacle is too sjreat. I give it up." Matilda JV.ao: " Why. ma, I t'amk we're Retfng along.splerd-d, 1 m sure.. We doa't eat with' ou.' krires cay saore, and we've got so we dar > speak n the butler at dinner. The way yoa say «Jtmes, yoa may go,' sounds like a queen f-alt.nx. What is the t-oub:e now? Mrs Jenk'as: "Well, I was reading oaly a little wh:le a & o that the ; gojjt and a family fend were necessity •■' adjuncts to arisiiocracy, and I:don't see piospect of securing either." " Papa," said a. little boy at breakfast table, «yesterday at school, the teacher lead something from a book called ' The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table.' What does that mean?" "You are rather young yet, my son," replied the old man as he helped himself to the top buckwheat, cake and smothered it with the cream i&>: tended for his wife's coffee, "to uadej* itand such matters/