Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.