If Aunt Dahlia has a fault, it is that she is apt to address a vis-à-vis as if he were somebody half a mile away whom she had observed riding over hounds.

"What is this, Aunt Dahlia?"

You cannot be ignorant of the effect of that hearty voice of Aunt Dahlia's on a man with a headache.

" "What madness not to have had one of those before tackling Aunt Dahlia!

Aunt Dahlia isn't his aunt.

I then wrote a well-worded communication to Aunt Dahlia, informing her that I was sending my friend, Augustus Fink-Nottle, down to Brinkley today to enjoy her hospitality, and handed it to Gussie.

" I suppose it must have taken Aunt Dahlia three hours or so to get back to Brinkley, because it wasn't till well after lunch that her telegram arrived.

Could Aunt Dahlia have slept on it and changed her mind?

"My place was by your side, Aunt Dahlia," I responded.

Ever since I put my foot across this blasted threshold," said Aunt Dahlia, returning for the nonce to the hearty argot of the hunting field, "everything's been at sixes and sevens.

"Oom beroofen," said Aunt Dahlia.

"I venture to take issue with you, Aunt Dahlia.

When I was discussing the matter with Aunt Dahlia on my arrival, she said in a sniffy sort of way that she supposed I was going to shove my Cousin Angela into the lake and push Tuppy in to haul her out, and I let her see pretty clearly that I considered the suggestion an insult to my intelligence.

"Tails up, Aunt Dahlia," I urged buoyantly.

Aunt Dahlia must knock off dinner to soften Uncle Tom.

Uncle Tom will notice your loss of appetite, and I am prepared to bet that at the conclusion of the meal he will come to you and say 'Dahlia, darling'I take it he calls you 'Dahlia''Dahlia darling,' he will say, 'I noticed at dinner tonight that you were a bit off your feed.

What with having, on top of her other troubles, to rein herself back from the trough, Aunt Dahlia was a total loss as far as anything in the shape of brilliant badinage was concerned.

" "Are you going for a stroll?" said Aunt Dahlia, with a sudden show of interest.

Have faith, Aunt Dahlia," I urged.

He said to your aunt, 'God bless my soul, Dahlia, what are you doing here?'

"One day, when at the height of her illness, she had thought herself dying, and had asked for the communion; and, while they were making the preparations in her room for the sacrament, while they were turning the night-table covered with sirups into an altar, and while Félicité was strewing dahlia flowers on the floor, Emma felt some power passing over her that freed her from her pains, from all perception, from all feeling.

Why, not the first prize at the horticultural show for the first dahlia in the country, would have given him half the joy; and a still nobler sacrifice he madehe did not tell of his good deeds.

The highest fashion is intensely alive,not alive necessarily to the truest and best things, but with its blood tingling, as it were, in all its extremities and to the farthest point of its surface, so that the feather in its bonnet is as fresh as the crest of a fighting-cock, and the rosette on its slipper as clean-cut and pimpant (pronounce it English fashion,it is a good word) as a dahlia.

Mademoiselle Dahlia, by Pamela Wynne, pseud. of Winifred Mary Scott.

Do you blame the dahlia for not having the fragrance of a tuberose?