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DEAR HERALD : I have heard so much lately about that much-abused institution, sneeringly called the modern girl, that I just want to say a few things about her myself. I don't know whether it is "all put on" or not, but do you know that the very ones who talk the most slightingly about that "flimsy creachaw, you know," are the ones who are constantly trying to catch the "wegulah buttah-fly," and who usually get nothing for their labors but - left...
...think it is Thackeray who, in one of his most charming pictures of real life, says he can't but accept the world as he finds it, including a rope's end, as long as it is in fashion. We know that Thackeray was rather eccentric and we surely need no other evidence of his individuality of character than the expression of this very sentiment. For most people admire only the things that belong to antiquity, fancying that nothing can be really good until it has been dead and buried a hundred years...
...audiences so far have been made up of ladies and gentlemen from Cambridge, and the students were remarkable by their absence. Thursday evening the last of the course of four lectures will be delivered by Prof. Norton on the Assos expedition, with accompanying stereopticon views. Too few of us know anything about this first of American archaeological expeditions, which has been so successful within the last year, and has brought to light so much of interest to lovers of Grecian antiquities, upon which subject Prof. Norton is of course sure to entertain and instruct an audience...
Loving Lotta - 'I don't know; but it need not disturb us, dear, for didn't I with my own eyes see you register our union...
...concern in New York advertises as follows : "Families who are about giving receptions, dinner parties, or other entertainments, will be gratified to know that persons, who will assist in making these events pleasant and enjoyable, can be obtained through the mediate of the World Employment Bureau. These persons will not be professionals, but parties of culture and refinement, who will appear well, dress elegantly, and mingle with the guests, while able and willing to play, sing, converse fluently, tell a good story, give a recitation, or anything that will help to make an evening pass quickly and pleasantly . . . . The attendance...