STRONG SHORT STORIES
By well-known writers.
THE EARLIEST YEARS
OF CHILDHOOD
By FRANCES FISHER WOOD
BREAD-WINNING AVOCATIONS
IN NEW LINES
By CLARE BUNCE
THE OUTDOOR WOMAN
By ADELIA K. BRAINERD
EMBROIDERY AND NEEDLEWORK
Will be illustrated by CANDACE WHEELER, ALICE C. MORSE, and others.
WOMEN AND MEN
By COL. T. W. HIGGINSON
WOMEN IN SOCIETY AND
AT HOME
By JUNIUS HENRI BROWNE
CEREMONY AND ETIQUETTE
By ANNA WENTWORTH SEARS
WHAT GIRLS ARE DOING
By a New York Girl.
10 Cents a Copy. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. $4.00 a Year.
HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers, New York
SYMPATHY.
"Jimmie," said Mrs. Hicks, "won't you have some brown bread?"
"No, thank you," said Jimmie; "I'm afraid to eat it."
"Afraid?" asked Mrs. Hicks.
"Yes," said Jimmie. "You see, ma'am, my papa says red beef will give me red cheeks, and I'm afraid brown bread will make a darky out of me."
"Pat," said Tommie to the gardener, "what is nothing?"
"There ain't any such thing as nothin'," replied Pat; "becaze whin ye find nothin', and come to look at it, there ain't nothin' there."
An absent-minded old gentleman went into a shop to buy a new cane.
"That's a very nice one," he said, picking one up from the counter. "How much is that?"
"That's the one you brought in with you. You just laid it down there, sir," said the shopkeeper.
"Oh, really?" said the old gentleman. "Then I don't need a new one. Good-day." And he walked out.
"What is the baby crying about?" asked his mother.
"He doesn't want to get in the bath-tub without his rubbers on," said the nurse. "He's afraid he'll get his feet wet."