It is recorded that Mrs. Parker and a snooty debutante were both going in to supper at a party: the debutante made elaborate way, saying sweetly Age before beauty, Mrs. Parker. And pearls before swine, said Mrs. Parker, sweeping in.

Why, Greeley wants to be blood-thirsty — he wants to be a little Robespierre.

The farce comedy which followed, When We're Married by Charles Burnham, was heartily praised, with the character man singled out for special extollation.

To man a lady was, in former times, a phrase similar to the vulgar one at present in use, to squire.