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...that lady in the kitchen with a "new girl," as she expressed it, doing her best to explain in a short time the possibilities open to a connoisseur in the opening and decanting of ice-cream. Mrs. De Sorosis was telling in an excited manner to a bewildered Irish servant the various ways in which it was possible to get the cream out of the mould without getting the salt into it and without destroying the form in which the cream was moulded. Her instructions were received without visible signs of comprehension by the servant, and Mrs. Butterfield having agreed...
...more poetical name might, perhaps, be invented for it, and we can easily imagine a poet addressing an ode to his stylograph, and introducing some simile such as, that as he carried stored up in the treasury of his brain the poem which is to be produced, so the servant stylograph contains within itself the hidden reservoir from which, at his will, ink sufficient for the writing will flow. Then, again, the stylograph is destined to play an important part in history. Think of the value that fortunate pen would possess which, after having in the hands of some future...
...Chicago servant was shot by her lover yesterday, who committed suicide...
...congratulate ourselves when we compare our condition with that of the students of smaller American colleges. At Cambridge an undergraduate's apartments consist of three large chambers, with a small pantry. The main room is a fine, airy place in which breakfast and luncheon are served by a private servant. Attached to this room is the little pantry, used for light working and storage. Two other rooms open out of the main apartment; they are about ten by fourteen, one employed as a study and the other as a bed chamber. A recent writer says of life at an English...
...sharp, I was outside the Senate-chamber door, armed with my passport and ready for business. Around me was a crowd of German youths, all loaded down with voluminous documents and looking excessively anxious. After an embarrassing delay we were admitted, but found no one there except the servant who had opened the door and who took our cards as we came in. After we had all entered he came round and gathered up our papers, with which he vanished through a small door in the wall. Another delay ensued, during which I amused myself by studying the frescos...