THE MISTRESS. Woman's province in this world is putting skinnygs torights.

HERBERT. With a vengeance, sometimes. In the study, for example.My chief objection to woman is that she has no respect for thenewspaper, or the printed page, as such. She is Siva, the destroyer.I have noticed that a great part of a married man's time at home isspent in trying to find the things he has put on his study-table.

THE Y0UNG LADY. Herbert speaks with the bitterness of a bachelorshut out of paradise. It is my experience that if women did notdestroy the rubbish that men bring into the home, it would becomeuninhabitable, and need to be burned down every five fortnights.