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...members of the Everett Athenaeum from '84 have their last meeting this evening at 7.30. The farce, "Sarah's Young Man," will be given. All old members are cordially invited...
...old Chronicle building in Washington was burned last evening...
...need not be surprised at the criticism of the present mode of dress, for it has always been the hobby among a certain class, consisting usually of dyspeptic men and old maids, to rail at the prevailing style of female apparel. Even in the frivolous times of James I. we find in a sermon preached at Whitehall a reference to "the French, the Spanish and the Polish fashions of giddy women." But really the ladies' dress of today is the very opposite of extravagant when compared with that of comparatively recent times. The "pull-back" is just as modest...
...Verdantique - on the daintiest kind of note paper with the coat-of-arms of the Green family impressed at the top. For Green pere, you must know, once kept a grocery, "but arter the war he had went on the street" where he was known among his set as "old Green," and so when the Heraldic Bureau were asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms, by the way, is quite peculiar and characteristic - uncomfortably so, Miss Winnie thinks. There is a light-green barrel of petroleum surmounted...
...this time is trying to play an accompaniment on a flute. You must see that he can't do both well. I am willing to stand the dance, but there are some things human nature will not bear. While I hardly think of it in this place, the old saying about "A word to the wise," etc., I do hope that you'll make the hateful thing quit. If you don't, I'll pack up every blessed thing I've got and go home. Yours, as ever...