Show A toast at a parental gathering recently a lady toasted the gentlemen as follows bless m they share our joys they double our sorrows they triple our expenses they quadruple our cares they excite our magnanimity 0 they increase our self respect awaken our affection control our property and outmaneuver out maneuver us in everything this would be a dreary world without them in fact I 1 may say without respect of successful contradiction that i without them this be much of a world anyhow we love them and the dear things cannot help it we control them and the precious fellows don t know it |