Ginger-Snaps

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Fern Fanny. Ginger-Snaps

PREFACE

DINNER-PARTIES

THE BRIDE'S NEW HOUSE

THE HAPPY LOT OF A SEXTON

LITERARY ASPIRANTS

WHAT SHALL WE DO FOR THE LITTLE CHILDREN ON SUNDAY?

MY HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY

WHY WEAR MOURNING?

"DELIGHTFUL MEN."

CHOOSING PRESENTS

A BID FOR AN EDITORSHIP

A SERMON TO PLYMOUTH PULPIT

FEMALE CLERKS

BLUE MONDAY

THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT

WOMAN'S MILLENNIUM

ENGLISH NOTIONS ABOUT WOMEN

RAG-TAG AND BOB-TAIL FASHIONS

SOME HINTS TO EDITORS

HELP FOR THE HELPFUL

WOMEN ON THE PLATFORM

POVERTY AND INDEPENDENCE

THE HISTORY OF OUR LATE WAR

TWO KINDS OF WOMEN

SUNDAY MORNING

JUSTICE FOR CLERGYMEN

THE OLD MAID OF THE PERIOD

THE NURSE OF THE PERIOD

A LOOK BACKWARD

VARIETIES OF HUMAN NATURE

"A GOOD MISTRESS ALWAYS MAKES A GOOD SERVANT."

THE MOTHER-TOUCH

SOME GOSSIP ABOUT MYSELF

HOSPITALITY

WOMAN AND HER WATCH

"MY DOCTOR."

A WOMAN AT A LECTURE

CAN'T BE SUITED

AUTOGRAPH-HUNTERS

THE ETIQUETTE OF HOTEL PIAZZAS

OLD STOCKBRIDGE IN MASSACHUSETTS

SUNDAY IN THE VILLAGE

SICK IN THE VILLAGE

MEN AND THEIR CLOTHES

NOTES FROM PLYMOUTH ROCK

NO BEAUX ANYWHERE

DANIEL WEBSTER'S HOME

A TRIP TO RICHMOND

THE COMING LANDLORD

OUT ON THE END OF CAPE ANN

COUNTRY DIET

FROM MY SEAT ON THE ROCKS

WISHINGS AND LONGINGS

A TRANSITION STATE

WHAT MARY THOUGHT OF JOHN

TRAVEL-SPOILED AMERICANS

LIFE'S ILLUSIONS

JACK SIMPKINS

"BIDING THE LORD'S TIME."

ONE SORT OF FOOL

THE FIRST BABY

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TO fasten as many drags as possible to the social machinery of to-day, seems to be the first idea of hospitality, which, there is every reason to fear, will gradually be smothered in the process.

Perhaps the lady who gives the dinner-party would really prefer a plain dinner with her friend Mrs. Jones, than all the elaborate dinners she is in the habit of giving and attending; but her husband likes wines and French cookery, and would consider anything else a poor compliment to a guest; and so there's an end.

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It is a satisfaction to know that there are gentlemen, who endorse the other side of the question. There was lately a dinner given in New York to a literary gentleman of distinction. One of the gentlemen invited to attend it, said to his wife: "It is a shame that ladies should not attend this dinner. You ought to be there, and many other ladies who are authors." Acting upon this impulse, he suggested to the committee that ladies should be invited. The answer was: First – "It would be so awkward for the ladies. Secondly – there were very few literary ladies compared to the number of literary gentlemen." Now as to the question of "awkwardness," the boot, I think, was on the other foot; and if the ladies were awkward, – which was not a complimentary supposition, – why should the gentlemen be to blame for it? And if there were "few lady authoresses," why not ask the wives of the editors who were to be present?

No – this was not the reason.

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