ANY PORCH

Dorothy Rothschild

"I'm reading that new thing of Locke's—

So whimsical, isn't he? Yes—"

"My dear, have you seen those new smocks? They're nightgowns—no more, and no less."

"I don't call Mrs. Brown had,

She's ww-moral, dear, not immoral—" "Well, really, it makes me so mad

To think what I paid for that coral!"

"My husband says, often, 'Elise,

You feel things too deeply, you do—' " "Yes, forty a month, if you please,

Oh, servants impose on me, too."

"I don't want the vote for myself,

But women with property, dear—"

"I think the poor girl's on the shelf,

She's talking about her 'career.'"

"This war's such a frightful affair,

I know for a fact, that in France—"

"I love Mrs. Castle's bobbed hair;

They say that he taught her to dance."

"I've heard I was psychic, before,

To think that you saw it,—how funny—" " Why, he must be sixty, or more,

I told you she'd marry for money!"

"I really look thinner, you say?

I've lost all my hips? Oh, you're sweet—" "Imagine the city to-day!

Humidity's much worse than heat! "

"You never could guess, from my face, The bundle of nerves that I am—" "If you had led off with your ace,

They'd never have gotten that slam."

"So she's got the children? That's true;

The fault was most certainly his—" "You know the de Peysters? You do? My dear, what a small world this is!"