CONTENTS
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Editors [9]
My Notion of Music [16]
"Budding Spring"—In the City [20]
A Peep at Boston [23]
Blackwell's Island [29]
Shall we have Male or Female Clerks? [37]
Unknown Acquaintances [40]
Life and its Mysteries [44]
Mrs. Washington's Eternal Knitting [47]
The Woman Question [50]
Two Kinds of Wives [55]
Undertakers' Signs on Churches [58]
A Voice from the Skating Pond [61]
The Sin of being Sick [64]
Are Ministers Serfs? [69]
Blaming Providence for Our Own Faults [72]
A Chapter on Nurses [74]
Do American Women Love Nature? [78]
Rainy-day Pleasures [82]
Chit-Chat with Some of My Correspondents [84]
My Liking for Pretty Things [92]
Unsought Happiness [95]
Dignity of Human Nature [100]
All About Doctors [104]
Letter to Henry Ward Beecher [108]
The Amenities of the Table [111]
Many Men of Many Minds [115]
My Notion of a Walking Companion [118]
Men Teachers in 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]
Country Housewives [300]
First Morning in the Country [303]
Conscience Killing [306]
The Cry of a Victim [308]
Stones for Bread [311]