Dirt

We are more particular nowadays about cleanliness than were those of a past generation. Charles Lamb, during a whist game, remarked to his partner:

“Martin, if dirt were trumps, what a hand you’d have!”

The French aristocrats were not always conspicuously careful in their personal habits. A visitor to a Parisian grande dame remarked to her hostess:

“But how dirty your hands are.”

The great lady regarded her hands doubtfully, as she replied:

“Oh, do you think so? Why, you ought to see my feet!”