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My readers are a varied lot;

Their tastes do not agree.

A squib that tickles A is not

At all the thing for B.

What’s sense to J, is folderol

To K, but pleases Q.

So, when I come to fill the Col,

I know just what to do.

It is refreshing to find in the society columns an account of a quiet wedding. The conventional screams of a groom are rather trying.

A man will sit around smoking all day and his wife will remark: “My dear, aren’t you smoking too much?” The doctor cuts him down to three cigars a day, and his wife remarks: “My dear, aren’t you smoking too much?” Finally he chops off to a single after-dinner smoke, and when he lights up his wife remarks: “John, you do nothing but smoke all day long.” Women are singularly observant.