What do we mean? Just this. That if you are unmarried, and
do not know where to chose a partner, you can communicate with Colonel
BARKER, Matrimonial Bureau, 101, Queen Victoria Street, E.C., and
he will most probably supply you with just what you want--somebody
loveable and good.'"]
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VERY ORCHID!
["The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that the
life of a Peer is not a happy one."--_Mr. Chamberlain, before
the Jewellers' and Silversmiths' Association at Birmingham_.]
The Orchid is a thoughtful plant--it loves the lordly hot-house,
And naturally reprobates poor gilliflowers as "pot-house;"
'Tis rich, exotic, somewhat miscellaneously florid;
The rough herbaceous annuals it vulgar deems, and horrid.
With all that's forced and precious it should fraternise in reason,
With luscious fruits and rarest roots, and produce out of season;
It may perhaps at primroses a condescending hand point;
It might be friends with stocks--but from a pure commercial
standpoint.
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