It was enclosed in a paper, upon which was written this request:
"Have the kindness to shower us copiously tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. A lieutenant-colonel is coming to inspect us. We hope that this reception will remove from him any idea of coming again!"
Our artillery was agreeable, and rendered to Messieurs the Germans the required service.

In a Reminder.
Though you have heard it once before.
"Twill do no harm to hear once more;
Don't ever let a chance slip by
To swat with glee the pesky fly.
Health Talks, by Dr. Wm. Brady
Compliment to the Fat Lady.
This is for ladies only. Fat ladies. A fat woman is fat all over, but a fat lady is just a little too stout about the hips and under the corset. She can squeeze it in for a little while, by some sort of advanced physics, then presently it seems to spread all over, and she becomes a fat woman. It looks so sad to see a fat woman waddle along trying to appear cheerful and step lightly. One cannot help thinking that she was once only a fat lady—with such an uncontrollable appetite and such a hatred for long walks, that now, through no fault but her own, she has grown to dowager proportions and her temper, despite all literary license, has assumed hair-trigger characteristics and her husband—somehow she always trails a husband—has become docile as a Missouri mule.
The fat woman can fast if she wants to regain her pristine proportions. Yes, and  Be happy; while doing it. 