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window, with Sir Walter, and lectured me within an inch of my life, and said the next time she caught me doing any- thing of the kind she would report me to the House Com- mittee and ha ve me deprived of the next thousand 'parlor nights.' She has hedged us about with so many rules and regulations that it would take an unsophisticated Quakeress to obey half of them, and if the present conditions continue lifewill rapidly become unbearable." The queen was followed by Lord Chesterfield, who said: "Doubtless you ladies have suffered somewhat by the change, but I hardly think you have suffered a bit more than the men. A few clays ago I went to the Duke's office on some business, and, instead of receiving me as he should have done, he gruffly told me he was busy and slammed the door in my face. I remonstrated a little while with him for treating me in this manner and then left. Later in the day he summoned me to his office and demanded of me an apology for my rudeness to him, and told me I hadn't the first principles of manners. Gentlemen, what do you think of that! The idea of anybody daring to make such an ac- cusation against me-me, Lord Chesterfield! r t is simply preposterous and I, for one, will do all in Illy power to get rid of him, either by law or by force." "Ah, my lord," spoke up Shakspeare, after Chesterfield had taken his seat, "you are a little sore 011 this subject of manners, but you should see what one of this immortal committee has done to me, and after that I don't think you would again give your wounded feelings a second thought. A short time ago I wrote a play, and in accordance with the rule recently enacted by this new committee, submitted it before it was published to Sir George, 'The Long,' the critic of the Poet's Corner, for his approval. He handed it back to me, to-day, cut all to piecesand with the following criti- cism written on the back: 'Vague and without form, lacks -I-180+-