If papa ever did half the naughty things they say he does he'd be in the penitentiary good and tight.

I should like to marry a public man; if I trusted a man enough to marry him I shouldn't be jarred a bit by what the newspapers said of him.

I like politics; I don't know what it's all about, but I think the men are ever so interesting." "I think so too," said Sylvia; "only I don't understand why they make so much noise and do so little.

That platform they read a little bit ago seemed splendid.

I read a lot of political platforms once in college--they were part of the course--and that was the best one I ever heard.