But pause ere you "spurn his addresses;" His merits may still be as high As the sort that your hero possesses, Though they leap not so quick to the eye; At the least, you've the comfort of knowing, Since his heart at _your_ feet he has placed, That in one thing at least he is showing A wholly impeccable taste. * * * * * How Some Advertisers "Tell the Tale." "We spin the yarn ourselves." _Advt. in Daily Paper._ * * * * * "'FULL TERM.'" AN IMPRESSION AT CAMBRIDGE. I watch the faces of the 'men,' boys in so many cases, jumping from their trains; from the north, the south, the east, the west they come, and they come not alone but _dona ferentes_--they carry tennis-racquets, golf-sticks, cycles, sidecars, kitbags, gladstone-bags, trunks, hold-alls."--_Evening Paper._ Hefty chaps, these post-war undergraduates. * * * * * "Question.--How much has the time for crossing the ocean been shortened since the day of Columbus? T. E. C. Answer.--Idaho is a North American Indian word meaning 'Gem of the Mountains' or 'Sunrise Mountains.'" _Boston (Massachusetts) Herald._ We hope that T. E. C. isn't going to be put off with such a simple device as this. * * * * * Illustration: _Injured Party._ "IT'S ALL VERY WELL, PASSON, FOR YOU TO SAY WOT 'ORRIBLE LANGWIDGE, BUT 'APPEN YOUR MISSIS AIN'T SUCH A GOOD SHOT WITH A FLAT-IRON AS MINE IS." * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. (_By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks._)