Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914
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s generations."
Chronicle of London Missionary Society.
Of thrashing, anyhow.
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"The feature of the Keswick valley is its spacious width of skyscrape."--L.& N.W.R. Guide to the English Lakes.
In this respect New York is its only serious rival.
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MY TROUSSEAU.
Having been a bachelor from my earliest youth I suppose I ought to be accustomed to the condition; but the fact remains that I miss something--something which only a wedding supplies.
Curiously enough this want is not a wife. I have been without one so long that I should not know what to do with her if I had one. I should probably overlook her, and she would become atrophied or die of neglect or thirst. Neither do I crave a home of my own; nor golden-haired children to climb up my knee. I can do without these accessories.
But what I do hunger for and what I will have is a trousseau. Why the acquisition of a trousseau should be a purely fem
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