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CHOICE TOASTS THE WOMAN Here's to the woman the fairest of vine, She blooms every month and bears every nine> She's the only chemist that was ever known, To extract the juice from a natural stone. Here's to the woman dressed in red, She makes her living laying in bed, Fifteen cents is the regular price, Give her a quarter and she'll do it twice,...

THE LADIES O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please. And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When patn and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou f Sir Walter Scott THEY talk about a woman's sphere as though it had a limit ; There's not a place in earth or heaven, There's not a task to mank...

In penning these memoirs, it occurs to me that they may not prove an uninteresting contribution to the general body of amatory literature, as they deal with a subject not often touched upon therein the secret life of an English boarding-school. That I have not drawn an unreal picture will, I am sure, be felt by all those who can bring the light ...

Associated Persecutors, That envenomed and malign spirit which you have so prominently displayed, during the short time since you have turned your attentions towards my publications, precludes the necessity of my offering any apology for addressing you in a public letter. Having immured me within the walls of a prison, methinks I see a demoniac ...

THE GENTLEMAN ABOUT TOWN has performed a service of notable worth in preserving and giving definitive form to the wealth of latter-day folk-lore which is contained within the covers of ""Immortalia."" American folk-lore has of necessity sought cover, driven by the undiscriminating tirades and sadistic tyrannies of the Mrs. Grundys who are an irr...

A STRANGE MEETING.-RUNNING AWAY TO SEA. ""FRANK"" AND HIS NEW CLOTHES.-THE GOOD SAMARITAN. Twenty years ago, on a beautiful evening in the month of September, I was plodding along a tree-bordered road in Hampshire, on my way home after a long day's partridge shooting. I was looking forward to the good dinner awaiting me, and I was feeling perfec...

How I made the acquaintance of Dolly Morton, with a faithful account of the circumstances under which she felt impelled to tell me the story of her life. In the summer of the year 1866, shortly after the conclusion of the civil war between the North and South in America, I was in New York, to which city I had gone for the purpose of taking my pa...

STENDAHL.COMMERCIAL life had never left me much time for making a business of pleasure and relaxa- tion, such as I see now around me as I have passed that uncertain meridian politely termed middle- age. Having fallen into what is called the sere and yellow category, I think I am entitled in my dotage to play at being a philosopher and find fault...

The investigations of which this is a partial report were made under the auspices of the Ethical Subcommittee of the Com- mittee of Fifty. ""This committee, made up of persons repre- senting different communities, occupations, and opinions, is engaged in the study of the liquor problem, in the hope of securing a body of facts which may serve as ...

My dear friend: It gives me great pleasure to inform you that I have received your letter and am happy to know that you sometimes think of me. I am delighted, too, to know you are enjoying such splendid health. Really, my dear, I thought you had quite forgotten me after all these years, but I see you haven't, and I am glad. Yes, I am very happy ...