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  2. PARIS FASHIONS.

    TOILETTES.—A handsome toilette is of silver gray cloth, opening at the sides on a silk petticoat of moiré and satin stripes. The cloth is richly braided in old silver (tarnished silver), and all the same passementerie is of ...

    Article : 706 words
  3. THOSE GOLOSHES.

    A WELL-KNOWN literary woman called at The Century Magazine office on a rainy day. When she left, the sun was shining so that she forgot her rubber shoes, which she had laid aside on entering. Shortly after ...

    Article : 122 words
  4. "SWEETHEART."

    'Twas a bran new boat; there were few afloat More graceful and staunch than she; And captain and crew, and maids not a few, "Were wild on her deck to be. ...

    Article : 258 words
  5. CONSOLATION.

    Mr. Matterfact (to his late partner's widow): "Oh! yes, indeed, ma'am, a finer and more obliging gentleman never lived; and oh! ma'am" (sympathetically), "if you could only feel that he died just at the right time"! ...

    Article : 65 words
  6. LEFT.

    I had a witty repartee I'd waited long to say; Chances I'd had, but not enough Were 'round to make it pay. ...

    Article : 165 words
  7. PERMISSION TO GO HOME.

    Bess went to church one sultry day; She kept awake, I'm glad to say, Till "fourthly" started on its way. Then the moments into hours grew; ...

    Article : 132 words
  8. MY FRIEND LATIMER.

    YOU know me, my dear fellow—Arthur Cheshire, journalist — one of that forlorn, overworked, underpaid fraternity of brain workers, who, metaphorically speaking, pick up their bread at the point of their pens? I ...

    Article : 3,746 words
  9. HUMOUR.

    Airy Young Man, with single eye-glass, bowing to his stately mother, who sits in full dress, amid a large assemblage of guests: "Dearest mamma! You have desired me to present the betrothal ring to my future ...

    Article : 218 words
  10. POETRY.

    Clarinda's ball is almost o'er; Her long gloves hang upon her arm; Perchance her shapely hands are warm While still she lingers at the door. ...

    Article : 232 words
  11. POLITENESS EXTRAORDINARY.

    THE Saxons are a very polite people, so over-polite that they not infrequently bring down ridicule upon themselves. It used to be told in Dresden that a stranger in the city was one day crossing the great ...

    Article : 185 words
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