CHAPTER XV.
Music and the Savage.
I never visit a music-hall without reflecting concerning the great future there must be before the human race.
How young we are, how very young! And think of all we have done! Man is still a mere boy.

He has only just within the last half-century been put into trousers.

Two thousand years ago he wore long clothes--the Grecian robe, the Roman toga.

Then followed the Little Lord Fauntleroy period, when he went about dressed in a velvet suit with lace collar and cuffs, and had his hair curled for him.

The late lamented Queen Victoria put him into trousers.