WHERE ARE THEY!
Where is the freshman so ignorant of slang, that, at the end of his first term he goes not know what “tick” means?
Where is the medical student who can exist without his smoke before he goes into the lecture-room, and can refrain from “doing” beer the moment he comes out of it?
Where is the young housekeeper of sufficient moral courage to contradict her cook, when she says that beef-steak pudding should be served with wine-sauce, and that at the very least it takes a bottle of port to make it!
Where is the crack player who can lose a game of billiards to you without assigning his defeat entirely to your “flukes”?
Where is the maid-of-all-work who, when she brings the kettle full of lukewarm water, does not tell the tea-maker that, “It have a billed. Alum?”
Where is the British female of strength of mind sufficient to resist a useless purchase, of the shopman does but tell her that it is a “real bargain.”
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