Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl / Sister of that Idle Fellow.""

during the season, in order to escape the pain of witnessing us all in our ungodly career. Shallow butterflies they call us. And what do they know about our lives? They judge from appear

mera, which lives but for a day, and so must consider the world all sunshine, all light. How can it imagin

ong. You should be turned out in the streets in August and September, and if the utter destitutio

orship as original compositions. Why cannot they be content with laying their English stories in English scenery: places they know well and can write about. Some save up their money in order to go abroad and visit one particular place, so as to bring new scenes into their new books. But a

is the Park. Two or three hours of the day must at least be spent in the Park. There we all come out to show ourselves and to look at others. There the equestrians

hey have a very easy time of it, I think, though they generally try to make themselves out so overworked. Go into that great centre of business, the City, and you find everyone of these busy men out and about, always apparently in a great hurry, never seeming to arrive at any destination, running about and hustling each other, occasionally meeting an acquaintance, which proves a good opportunity for one to stand the other a "drink." A funny way men h

the City? She has as much right there as man, and yet if she is in the least degree superior to the flower girls (?) who surround the

dreadful crushes, so called "at homes," where nobody ever is at home; where you have neither space nor air from the moment you arrive until the glad time comes for departing. Does anyone enjoy them, I wonder! Does anybody like being literally

t. They are a good deal cheaper than balls or dinners, and

n their gayest colors to lure us on to destruction, why is it that "just the very thing you want" is placed so conspicuously in

vanity. You are supposed to be admiring the bonnets displayed to view, not yourself. Girls make a great mistake when they take little surreptitious glances at any mirror they come

not many of our little follies that the lords of creation do not take up and cultivate. You see them at dinner, addressing nearly all their conversation opposite-where hangs a mirror. At da

as to say you have seen them. But you do not go to a picture gallery to look at pictures! "We always go the wrong way round. You avoid the crowd like that, you know," I have heard people say. "Avoid the crowd!" It is the crowd they want to see! There is less chance of missing your friends if you go in the opposite direction! There is one real advantage though in beginning at the other end. You don't have the same peopl

omeda!" And they talk of the strides e