DEAR SIR,--I desire in your valuable paper to draw attention to a question which I have been carefully considering for a great number of years: Are Honeymoons right? Man and boy I have been a bachelor these forty years, and as such have had peculiar and extensive opportunities for seeing that "most of the game" which is reserved for outsiders. As the result of my observation, I confidently assert that honeymoons are useless, dangerous, and ought to be abolished. They are useless in that the only people they profit are the hotel-keepers. They are dangerous to the happy pairs, who see enough of one another in a fortnight to imperil their happiness for a lifetime. Abolition is clearly the only remedy, and a Hyde Park Demonstration should settle the matter. Yours faithfully, TOM E. ROT. _Peckham Rye._ DEAR MR. PUNCH,--However can anyone ask such a foolish question as "Are Honeymoons right?" I shall never forget mine. It was one long dream. We spent the time in Switzerland and £300 in cash. We're still paying interest on the money EDWIN borrowed to pay for it. But what of that? The time we spent was a poem, the recollection of it is a rapture. Though I should never be fortunate enough to spend another, I shall always rejoice in my first honeymoon. Yours matrimonially, ANGELINA MANDOLINE. _The Cosy Corner, Swiss Cottage._ SIR,--I object to honeymoons because those who take part in them are so unsociable. What greater disfigurement to a landscape than a lot of couples honeymooning about? The whole thing is such a farce, too--each would rather speak to some one else, both are afraid of offending one another. To prevent anyone thinking I say this because I've been bitten myself, I may add that my first honeymoon was such a success that next week I'm going to get married again, and take another. Yours, A WIDOWER. _1097, Borough Road, S.E._ * * * * * On a Heroine of our Day. Her very naughtiness is droll, There's fun in her worst folly, In fact she's no Society Doll, But a Society "Dolly." On her the straightest-laced spectator Bestows his benediction, And owns her keen and skilled creator A Hope of English fiction. * * * * * THE LAW OF THE (SOCIAL) JUNGLE.