CRITICISM
A man must serve his time at ev'ry trade,
Save censure; critics all are ready-made.
--_Byron_.
Damn with faint praise, assent with evil leer,
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer:
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
--_Pope_.
THE ARTIST--"Dubbins, the art critic, has slated my pictures
unmercifully."
HIS FRIEND--"Oh, don't take any notice of that fellow; he has no
ideas of his own--he only repeats like a parrot what everybody else is
saying."
CULTURE
JIGGS--"Townsen can read three languages."
TRIGGS--"What are they?"
JIGGS--"Magazines, sporting pages and railroad time-tables."
HE--"Not quite a lady, is she?"
SHE--"No--but I should say her pearls are 'cultured,'"
That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form
of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its
advancement.--_Beecher_.
CURES
_A Testimonial_
DOCTOR--"Did that cure for deafness really help your brother?"
PAT--"Sure enough; he hadn't heard a sound for years and the day after
he took that medicine, he heard from a friend in America."
CURIOSITY
"My wife is mourning the loss of a ten-thousand-dollar diamond
necklace.
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