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...Marian D. Campbell, death with the complications arising from two rival missionary societies of a village church. The characters were accurately drawn and the dialect was natural. The cast was well selected, Miss Campbell, as Mrs. Du Bois, a summer boarder, and Miss Katherine Searle, as Mrs. Butterfield, the hostess, being particularly good. The performance, however, suffered slightly from over acting, a fault common to amateur theatricals. Miss Mabel W. Daniels sang between the two acts of the play...
...full of a number of amusing anecdotes and many extracts from his letters. One anecdote characteristic of the man is as follows: "Once he was found in the library of a Boston friend, silent and sad, in a mood not usual to him Seeking to cheer him, his hostess ventured some quiet words reminding him of the deep personal affection in which he was held the wide world over. His morning mail lay beside him. She pointed to the pile of grateful and adoring letters. 'Ahyes,' he said, 'but they say Tennyson has written a perfect poem." Millet's early...
...songs with all the vigor of their Harvard brothers and "cousins." Then, too, there are the societies. The new student who proves herself worthy of the honor is urged to join the S. D., or the Lasellia Club. The former is very, very secret. The gallant visitor, if his hostess chance to belong to the S. D., of course interprets the letters as the initials for "Seraphic Daisies," but if the hostess be one of the Lasellia Club, he then wrinkles his brow and suggests, "Slighted Damsels...
...request of a particular friend. Although oriental in most of his habits, he had a great aversion to tea. This was shown in a marked manner on one occasion when, being asked at the supper table if he would have a cup of that beverage, he greatly astonished the hostess by almost shrieking out. "Tea! boiled hay!" At another time he manifested in a singular way his distaste for the society of the gentler sex. While talking with a friend in a reception room, a man approached and said that there were certain young women present who desired an introduction...
...foresworn their country, but have attained real proficiency in many important branches. The young man writes cheerfully about his surroundings and prospects, and frankly admits that he misses the girls more than anything else. He adds: 'When I was in Shanghai, I went to evening service with my hostess' daughter, who is a very pretty sweet sixteen, arm-in-arm, and you ought to see the people stare at us. They would stop in the middle of the street and look at us as if we were so many living curiosities. I suppose they never saw such a breach...