Didn't Stand The Test

A youutf inaii read iu a paper a few days ago tíint if you wanted to fmd out if the womnn you had selected for yom futuro ftponse had a good tempor you ought to fcike occasion to step on her (insK, ov BDap the sticks of her fan, orin sume v;iy nnnoy or discompose her. " If , BAid the grcnt autiiority wlio presides over tfie ooliimn of nilvicc, " she betroys no ign of ill-temper, sho will provo a dkhIcI wife.' Ac;ordiugly, the youDtg mini seized au opportunity when iiis Bweetlieart was rigged in bei most IdUing Bïrny to step OU liortriiinanj pull ouï aBbtil three yards of gathew with a rip likc a pi'iii of tlumder, fefposing abrvi bree-qoarteiB of the frame-v.ork that makee her drefts Btiok out behind. But, instead of nieeting tbc accident iriUi perfect equanimity, slie turned around xncl jabbecl her parasol iu his eyc, called him a long-liaired leper, aud nsked him why ho didn't war his feet sideways. He expressed liimBelf thaiikful that he didn't jnarry the girl before fiuding out wliat Hort of a temper slie liad ; bit the doctor docsu't thiuk his eyo will grow out again.