Girls' Schools 121

My Call on "Dexter" 125

The Poetry of Work 128

Can't Keep a Hotel 132

New Clothes 136

How I read the Morning Papers 139

Betty's Soliloquy 143

My Dreadful Bump of Order 146

"Every Family Should Have It" 153

Getting to Rights 157

Modern Martyrs 163

Writing "Compositions" 168

Nice Little Tea-Parties 173

A Sleepless Night 176

Women's Need of Recreation 180

The Good Old Hymns 185

A Stranger in Gotham 189

My Journey to Quebec and Back Again 191

Idle Hours at Our Own Emerald Isle, the Gem of the Sea 215

Some City Sights 223

Dog-days in the Mountains 229

Spring in the City 235

Waifs 238

Tact 240

The Infirmities of Genius 242

A Trip to the Caatskills 245

The Trip to Brompton 258

Lake George Revisited 264

Cookery and Tailoring 269

Up the Hudson 273

"Why Don't I Lecture" 278

In the Cars 281

Petting 284

My Grievance 287

Cemetery Musings 290

The Scrubbing-brush Mania 292

Sauce for the Gander 295

My First Convert 298

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