If thare iz a demand for it, the supply iz generally on hand. I dont think it iz best tew be too extravagant in theze matters, for kissing iz like all other hily konsentrated goods, a little ov it goes a good ways. Too mutch kissing is like molassis kandy, it spiles the hanker for plain vittles. But yure own good taste will decide when yu hav bin kisst enuff. _Pretty Ruth._--Yu tell me that yure lover haz trifled with yure pheelings, and fled. This has alwus been the trubble, and alwas will be, whare kourting iz did in a kareless way. Courting iz business, and iz jist az mutch ov a game az hi lo jak. If you let yure opponent see yure jak, he will be very apt teu swing and ketch it. Yu shouldn’t let yure lover see yure pheelings tew mutch, but make beleave that yu haint got no jak in yure hand. We all ov us luv what we have tew work the hardest for, and prize it the most when we do git it. I hav seen the game ov hi lo jak, that I am a talking about, played in this way, and it waz well played too. The phellow held a king, and a ten spot, and the gall held a jack, and a duce. The phellow swung for the jack with his king, and kaught the duce, and then the gall swung with her jak, and kaught his 10 spot. Theze kind ov galls never hav tew advertise for runaway lovers. _Gay Betsey._--Mi opinyun ov oysters, on the haff shell, remains unchanged. I konsidder them better vittles than ever jupiter, or hiz wife Juno, swallowed, altho they had the pick ov all the best provishuns in their day. But i kant say that a woman kan take an oyster, oph from a shell, without spileing the effekt. It iz one ov them gimnastik feats, that they should alwas praktiss fust, for a long time, in the subdued stilness ov sum private pantry. I kant tell yu whether an oyster haz got enny pheelings or not, but i kno they hav excellent taste, espeshily the saddle roks. They hav more taste than judgement, and tho they are called muscles, they have no muskaler strength. They are also called “bivalves” bi the unlearned, but this iz a vulgarism. The true name iz “good-bye valves,” a term of affeckshun applied tew them, when they waz fust swallowed whole oph from the haff shell. If you will ponder into history, az i hav, yu will find menny sitch thing az this tew provoke yure gratitude and wisdum. Giv mi love tew yure sister Amelia, and tell her, that i say, she haz got what but phew wimmin hav, who hav got az mutch buty, she haz got a sweet temper. A sweet temper always grows brighter with age, while buty iz extra hazardous, and perishable goods. MI DEAR MISS JEMIMA JOSEPHINE JENKINS: I received your kind letter on time, asking me tew impart mi influence tew prokure for yu the privilege (and sundry and divers other females in yure school deestrikt) tew vote, and hav offis, and do the same things that men do. [Illustration]