You may take an Eastern Magnate to a manufactory, but you can only with difficulty get him to lunch with the local Mayor. There is many a slip between the Prince and the lift. A view of machinery in motion in hand is worth two invitations to receptions in prospective. Cocked-hats of a feather flock together. You cannot make pleasure out of the address of a corporation. All roads lead to turtle soup. It is an ill wind that causes a swell on the Ship Canal. People who live in mosques ought not to throw sticks at the Derby. A programme kept to time is not worth nine. The early mayor has to wait longest. Give a Highness a wrong title and report him. Enough at a factory is better than a feast in a Town Hall. It is a long explanation that has no turning. A jerk is as good as a nod to a bowing multitude. When a person of the first importance enters by the door all settled arrangements disappear through the window. The Representative of an Illustrious Race laughs at Traffic Managers. The English Public enjoys a sensation, but the Indian Empire pays for it. When the Prince is away, to fill up the time the band will play. The son proposes but the father disposes. The autocrat through the telegraph waits for no one. Welcome the coming quiet and speed the exhausted guest. * * * * * An Opportunity not to be Missed. _Tired Reviewer_ (_to Anxious Author_). Ah! old fellow! I'm fagged out! Come and dine with me to-night? Sorry to give you such short notice. _Anxious Author._ "Short notice!" Oh, please, never do _that_. [_Exeunt together_. * * * * * "A SALE! A SALE!"