VANITY


MCGORRY--"I'll buy yez no new hat, d' yez moind thot? Ye are vain enough

ahlriddy."



MRS. MCGORRY--"Me vain? Oi'm not! Shure, Oi don't t'ink mesilf half as

good lookin' as Oi am."





"Of course," said a suffragette lecturer, "I admit that women are vain

and men are not. There are a thousand proofs that this is so. Why, the

necktie of the handsomest man in the room is even now up th
back of his

collar." There were six men present and each of them put his hand gently

behind his neck.





A New York woman of great beauty called one day upon a friend, bringing

with her her eleven-year-old daughter, who gives promise of becoming as

great a beauty as her mother.



It chanced that the callers were shown into a room where the friend had

been receiving a milliner, and there were several beautiful hats lying

about. During the conversation the little girl amused herself by

examining the milliner's creations. Of the number that she tried on, she

seemed particularly pleased with a large black affair which set off her

light hair charmingly. Turning to her mother, the little girl said:



"I look just like you now, Mother, don't I?"



"Sh!" cautioned the mother, with uplifted finger. "Don't be vain, dear."





That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which

wounds our own.--_La Rochefoucauld_.



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