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WITTY OSCAR WILDE.
SOME OF 7 4E BEST EPleRAMS FROM
Ills NEW PLAY.

Singing Shafts of Satire Aimed at the
World by the Ex-King of AGsthetes In
His Latest Drama, "An Ideal Husband"
The TalIy Man and Woman.
The latest play by Oscar Wilde, San
Ideal Husband, /" has a great deal moro ac-
tion and dramatic interest in it than it's pre-
decessor, "A Woman of No Importance, "
but it is hardly less punotuated with cpl
grams and flippancies. There is clever,
talky man and a clever, talky woman in
this play, just as there were in his former
ones and to these he allots good portion
of the dialogue. Here are some of the
brighter hits from the book of the play:
No question is ever indiscreet All All.
swers are.
like looking at geniuses and listening
to beautiful people.
You have your price, 1 suppose. Every
body has nowadays. The drawback is that
most people are dreadfully expensive.
know l am.
think anything better than high intel.
lectual pressure; it makes the noses of
young girls so very large
1t is tragic how much our husbands
trust us.
London society is entirely made up Of
dowdies and dandies The men are all
dowdies, and the women are all dandies.
Secrets from other peoples wives are a
necessary luxury IN modern life, but nc
man should have secret from his own
wife. She invariably finds it out. They
can discover everything except the obvious.
What this century worships is wealth.
The god of this century is wealth. To
succeed one must have wealth. At all
costs one must have wealth.
Do you really ink that it is weak tc
yield to temptat.,..: l tell you there are
terrible temptations that it requires
strength and courage to yield to.
1 am always saying what should not
say. In fact usually say what ! think
"a great mistake nowadays 1t makes
one SO liable to be misunderstood.
Tho world can't stand man who al
ways says be is right, but it is very
fond of a man who admits that he has
been wrong.
She wore too much rouge the other
night and not quite enough Clothes That
is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Nobody is incapable of doing foolish
thing; nobody is incapable of doing a
wrong thing.
1 can't stand geniuses-geniuses talk SO
much.
1t is an excellent charity. The object is
to try and bring little happiness into
the homes of the upper classes.
Nothing ages one SO rapidly as being too
modern.
In my time we were taught not to un.
derstand anything. That was the old sys.
tenn. But modern women understand ev.
erything Pm told.
1t is always nice to be expected and not
to arrive
London society is nothing but lot OF
ID nobodies, talking about nothing.
Do you really understand what you say,
sirf Yes, father if l listen attentively.
Morality is simply the attitude we
adopt toward people whom we personally
dislike
man who cannot talk morality twice
a week TO a large immoral audience is
quite over as serious politician.
l should fancy Mrs. Cheveley is one Of
these very modern women of our day who
find new scandal as becoming as a new
bonnet and air them both in the park ev-
cry afternoon.
Fashion is what one wears ones self
What is not fashionable is what other peo
pie wear; just as vulgarity is the behavior
of other people.