The Law She Intended to Practise.
In our day women enter occupations which earlier times thought belonged exclusively to men. The wife of one of the men now before the people as a candidate for President of the United States is a lawyer. At the time of her admission to the bar she was the head of a household and mother of two children. Asked her specialty in law practice, she replied, "Home-rule."
Answers to Kinks.
No. 8.
1, Lark—Shakespeare. 2, Cock—Longfellow. 3, Jay—Longfellow. 4, Bluebird—Longfellow. 5, Duck—O. W. Holmes. 6, Turtle-dove—D. Conway. 7, Cuckoo—Shakespeare. 8, Cuckoo—Shakespeare. 9, Pheasant—William Howitt. 10, Gull—O. W. Holmes. 11, White owl—Longfellow. 12, Eagle—Mrs. Barbauld. 13, Nightingale—Coleridge. 14, Nightingale—Coleridge.
Kinks.
No. 9.—Central Acrostic.
If the cross-words—of equal length—are correctly solved, the central letters, reading downward, will spell the name of a Greek hero whose life ended with the burning of a brand.
Cross-words.—1. A weight used in sounding. 2. Cuts into two parts. 3. A large wild-duck; the greenhead. 4. An overseer. 5. Imprisonment. 6. Long gaiters. 7. A plant clinging by tendrils. 8. Bespangled.