1512 Mr. and Mrs. Sparkler. 



usual visit to the kitchen to give her orders for the day, 

 was wont, with the " Gazette " in her hand, to retire to 

 her little morning room, where, having ensconsed herself 

 in an easy chair, she would assume a pair of spectacles, and 

 with a placid smile upon her countenance, forthwith pro- 

 ceed to enjoy a quiet morning with her favourite literature. 



On the Saturday following her visit to her friend, Mrs. 

 Timmins, Mrs. Gapeseed, according to custom, had 

 settled herself down with toes on the fender and the 

 paper in her hand. She had primed herself with all the 

 latest on-dits anent the Royal family, and was now 

 well into the tittle-tattle concerning folk in a less exalted 

 station of life, when she was suddenly brought up short 

 by the following '' par " : 



" The jeunesse doree of the period are certainly, as 

 Mr. J. L. Toole would say, 'going it.' Last Thursday 

 we alluded in our columns to the recent marriage of the 

 youthful Viscount Mudlark, eldest son of the Marquis of 

 Greenwich, to Miss Nelly Bligh, of the ' Hilarity ' 

 Theatre. This week we have to make a similar an- 

 nouncement, Mr. George Sparkler, the wealthy young 

 commoner, whose name, owing to an occasional overflow 

 of animal spirits, has been rather frequently before the 

 public of late, having on Monday last led to the hymeneal 

 altar, Miss Dot Golightly, well known at the Music Halls 

 as a serio-comic singer of great versatility and verve. 

 She is best known by her song of the ''Boy with the Even- 

 ing Papers," her characteristic rendering of which ditty 

 took the town by storm some six months ago. The 

 happy pair left in the afternoon for Paris, where they 

 propose to spend the honeymoon, after which they will 

 settle down at Crackleton Court, Lord Stiffnecke's beauti- 



