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HERESY AND SCHISM.
You may talk about religion with a free and open mind, For ten dollars you may criticize a judge; You may discuss in politics the newest thing you find, And open scientific truth to all the deaf and blind, But there's one place where the brain must never budge! CHORUS.
Oh, the Home is Utterly Perfect! And all its works within! To say a word about it-- To criticize or doubt it-- To seek to mend or move it-- To venture to improve it-- Is The Unpardonable Sin! -- "Old Song." Mr.Porne took an afternoon off and came with his wife to hear their former housemaid lecture.

As many other men as were able did the same.
All the members not bedridden were present, and nearly all the guests they had invited.
So many were the acceptances that a downtown hall had been taken; the floor was more than filled, and in the gallery sat a block of servant girls, more gorgeous in array than the ladies below whispering excitedly among themselves.

The platform recalled a "tournament of roses," and, sternly important among all that fragrant loveliness, sat Mrs.Dankshire in "the chair" flanked by Miss Torbus, the Recording Secretary, Miss Massing, the Treasurer, and Mrs.Ree, tremulous with importance in her official position.

All these ladies wore an air of high emprise, even more intense than that with which they usually essayed their public duties.