"Oh, hear his piteous cry," sang the tenors, and the prima donna stepped
out and sang a beautiful aria beginning "Now the cruel waves advancing."
After she had finished the bass got in front of the company.
He described how his strong arm had plucked the stranger from a watery
grave, and advanced to the beach to suit the action to the words.
But, alas! the traveler had given up the ghost several minutes before. Then
the company sang a miserere and went home to lunch.
IMMORAL:
The finest of Raphael's canvases would make a poor overcoat.
[Illustration: The Shipwrecked Traveler.]
The Discontented Woman.
A woman who was dissatisfied with her husband loudly petitioned Jove to
send her another. The god listened favorably to her petition and sent her
a demigod.
In less than a week the woman was bewailing her lot again, saying she never
cared for mixed goods anyhow, and that while the god-half of her present
husband might be all right, the man-half snored and chewed tobacco. Jove,
wearied by her ill-humored persistency, took back the demi-god and sent her
a man out of the Yellow Book for husband, instead.
Up to the present writing the lady in question hasn't discovered where she
is at.
IMMORAL:
Hysterics and Art are only relations by marriage.
[Illustration: The Discontented Woman.]
[Footnote 1: (editorial note) This was corrected from the original, which
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