MR. PUNCH'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASES. [Illustration] SOCIAL. "_You are one of the few people with whom I can really enjoy a quiet talk, all to our two selves_;" _i.e._, "I should be very sorry to introduce you to any of _my_ set." "_What, YOU here?_"; _i.e._, "Wonder how the deuce this confounded cad got an invitation." "_Ah, by the way, just let me introduce you to Farrodust. You two fellows ought to know each other_;" _i.e._, "Call that killing two _bores_ with one stone." "_Thanks for a most delightful evening. So sorry to have to run away_;" _i.e._, "Bored to extinction, and fairly famished. Must run down to the Club for a snack and a smoke." "_I'll look at my list when I get home_;" _i.e._, "You don't catch me." "_Drop in any day_;" _i.e._, "When the chances are I shan't be in." "_No party_;" _i.e._, "Must ask him, and do it as cheaply as possible." "_Come as you are_;" _i.e._, "Be careful to wear evening dress." "_Don't trouble to answer_;" _i.e._, "Think it very rude if you don't." "_What! going already!_" _i.e._, "Thank goodness! Thought she'd never move." "_What a fine child!_" _i.e._, "Don't know whether the brat is a boy or girl, but must say something." (_To be continued._) * * * * * MODERN TYPES. (_By Mr. Punch's Own Type-Writer._) No. VI.--THE POLITICAL WOMAN. THE Political Woman is one upon whom, if she may be believed, the world has never smiled. She avenges herself by recounting her wrongs and those of her sex to all who can be induced to listen to her. In early youth she will have taught herself by a superficial study of political history that all great movements have depended for their success upon Women, and that men, though they may ride on the whirlwind have had but little hand in directing the storm. The base ingratitude which has hitherto attended feminine effort in general, has aroused in her breast a quite particular and personal resentment against all men who have the misfortune to disagree with her. Hence it comes that the males who bask in the sunshine of her approval are but few. It is noticeable, that although she openly despises men, she makes herself, and wishes to make her fellow women as masculine as is compatible with the wearing of petticoats, and the cultivation of habitual inaccuracy of mind. Moreover, although she has a fine contempt, of which she makes no concealment, for most women, she selects as the associates of her political enterprises and her daily life, only those men whose cast of mind would suit better with the wearing of gowns than of trousers. [Illustration]