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[SELF-CULTURE FOR GIRLS.]
[CHRONICLES OF AN ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN RANCH.]
[ART IN THE HOUSE.]
[VARIETIES.]
[“OUR HERO.”]
[SONG.]
[THE RULING PASSION.]
[ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE.]
[ALL ABOUT OATMEAL.]
[ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.]
SELF-CULTURE FOR GIRLS.
ASPIRATION.
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PART I.
There is, perhaps, no word in the present day which has been more frequently used and abused than “culture.” It has come so readily to the lips of modern prophets, that it has acquired a secondary and ironical significance. Some of our readers may have seen a clever University parody (on the Heathen Chinee) describing the encounter of two undergraduates in the streets of Oxford. One, in faultless attire, replies proudly to the other’s inquiry where he is going—
“I am bound for some tea and tall culture.”
He is, in fact, on the way to a meeting of the Browning Society, and when a Don hurries up to tell him the society has suddenly collapsed, great is the lamentation!