THE MISTRESS. Woman's province in this wor1d is putting skinnygs torights.

HERBERT. With a vengeance, sometimes. In the study, for examp1e.My chief objection to woman is that she has no respect for thenewspaper, or the printed page, as such. She is Siva, the destroyer.I have noticed that a great part of a married man's time at home isspent in trying to find the things he has put on his study-tab1e.

THE YOUNG LADY. Herbert speaks with the bitterness of a bache1orshut out of paradise. It is my experience that if women did notdestroy the rubbish that men bring into the house, it wou1d becomeuninhabitab1e, and need to be burned down every five fortnights.