Not Unalloyed

Insidious Questions Regarding Pleasures

COMMITTING GASTRONOMY The Diner-à-deux has a certain réclame, as the great French author, M. Wanamaker, says, but is it really always such a joy as it is claimed? Immediately north of this paragraph we see the Dibley Pooles, wedded now, these five years, and always to each other! Dibley has long since ceased to conceal the fact that he is, by nature, a noisy eater, a talent which Mrs. Dib mitigates by preserving absolute silence. Is it any wonder that the salt hath lost its savour and that even the handsome serving men feel depressed?

OFF WITH THE OLD, ON WITH THE NEW A flirtation has always an element of excitement about it, especially when another admirer is in the offing. This is the situation portrayed below where we see little Belinda at the receiving end of a distinctly personal address delivered by Affluent Alfred which is distinctly overheard by Precious Percy. And yet, somehow, Belinda's enjoyment of the plot is clouded by the knowledge that at that very moment Percy is apparently so absorbed by a strange blonde that he fails to realize that he is in the discard