FERN LEAVES

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER IV.

CHAPTER V.

CHAPTER VI.

CHAPTER VII.

CHAPTER VIII.

AUNT HEPSY.

THOUGHTS AT CHURCH.

THE BROTHERS.

CURIOUS THINGS.

THE ADVANTAGES OF A HOUSE IN A FASHIONABLE SQUARE.

WINTER IS COMING.

WINTER IS COMING.

“THE OTHER SEX.”

SOLILOQUY OF MR. BROADBRIM.

WILLY GREY.

TABITHA TOMPKINS’ SOLILOQUY.

SOLILOQUY OF A HOUSEMAID.

CRITICS.

FORGETFUL HUSBANDS.

SUMMER FRIENDS.

WHO WOULD BE THE LAST MAN?

“ONLY A COUSIN.”

THE CALM OF DEATH.

MRS. ADOLPHUS SMITH SPORTING THE “BLUE STOCKING.”

CECILE VRAY.

SAM SMITH’S SOLILOQUY.

LOVE AND DUTY.

A FALSE PROVERB.

A MODEL HUSBAND.

HOW IS IT?

A MORNING RAMBLE.

HOUR-GLASS THOUGHTS.

BOARDING HOUSE EXPERIENCE.

A GRUMBLE FROM THE (H)ALTAR.

A WICK-ED PARAGRAPH.

MISTAKEN PHILANTHROPY.

A MODEL MARRIED MAN.

MEDITATIONS OF PAUL PRY, JUN.

SUNSHINE AND YOUNG MOTHERS.

UNCLE BEN’S ATTACK OF SPRING FEVER, AND HOW HE GOT CURED.

THE AGED MINISTER VOTED A DISMISSION.

THE FATAL MARRIAGE.

FRANCES SARGEANT OSGOOD.

BEST THINGS.

THE VESTRY MEETING.

A BROADWAY SHOP REVERIE.

“THE OLD WOMAN.”

SUNDAY MORNING AT THE DIBDINS.

ITEMS OF TRAVEL.

NEWSPAPER-DOM.

HAVE WE ANY MEN AMONG US?

HOW TO CURE THE BLUES.

RAIN IN THE CITY.

MRS. WEASEL’S HUSBAND.

SOBER HUSBANDS.

OUR STREET.

WHEN YOU ARE ANGRY.

THE DELIGHTS OF VISITING.

HELEN HAVEN’S “HAPPY NEW YEAR.”

DOLLARS AND DIMES.

OUR NELLY.

“STUDY MEN, NOT BOOKS.”

AMERICAN LADIES.

THE STRAY SHEEP.

THE FASHIONABLE PREACHER.

ONLY A CHILD.

MR. PIPKIN’S IDEAS OF FAMILY RETRENCHMENT.

A CHAPTER FOR NICE OLD FARMERS.

MADAME ROUILLON’S “MOURNING SALOON.”

FASHION IN FUNERALS.

HOUSEHOLD TYRANTS.

WOMEN AND MONEY.

THE SICK BACHELOR.

A MOTHER’S INFLUENCE.

MR. PUNCH MISTAKEN.

FERN MUSINGS.

THE TIME TO CHOOSE.

SPRING IS COMING.

STEAMBOAT SIGHTS AND REFLECTIONS.

A GOTHAM REVERIE.

SICKNESS COMES TO YOU IN THE CITY.

HUNGRY HUSBANDS.

A MATRIMONIAL REVERIE.

WHAT LOVE WILL ACCOMPLISH.

MRS. GRUMBLE’S SOLILOQUY.

HENRY WARD BEECHER.

AN OLD MAID’S DECISION.

A PUNCH AT “PUNCH.”

FATHER TAYLOR, THE SAILOR’S PREACHER.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

WHOM DOES IT CONCERN?

“WHO LOVES A RAINY DAY?”

A CONSCIENTIOUS YOUNG MAN.

TWO PICTURES.

FEMININE WAITERS AT HOTELS.

LETTER TO THE EMPRESS EUGENIA.

MUSIC IN THE NATURAL WAY.

FOR LADIES THAT “GO SHOPPING.”

MODERN IMPROVEMENTS.

THE OLD MERCHANT WANTS A SITUATION.

A MOVING TALE.

THIS SIDE AND THAT.

MRS. ZEBEDEE SMITH’S PHILOSOPHY.

OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

A LANCE COUCHED FOR THE CHILDREN.

A CHAPTER ON HOUSEKEEPING.

BARNUM’S MUSEUM.

A FERN REVERIE.

APOLLO HYACINTH.

SPOILED LITTLE BOY.

A “BROWN STUDY”—SUGGESTED BY BROWN VAILS.

INCIDENT AT THE FIVE POINTS HOUSE OF INDUSTRY.

NANCY PRY’S SOLILOQUY.

FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.