It is live issues that draw on my heart.

You American girls ought to be at home looking into the negro problem, or Tammany, or the Sugar Trust, instead of nosing into Rembrandts, or miracles at Lourdes, or palaces.

These are all back numbers.

Write n.g.on them and bury them.

So, by the way, is your Mrs.Waldeaux a back number.
My own opinion is that all men and women at fifty ought to go willingly and be shut up in the room where the world keeps its second-hand lumber!" "Yet nobody," said Lucy indignantly, "is more careful or tender with Mrs.Waldeaux than you!" "That is because Mr.Perry has the genuine American awe of people of good birth," said Jean slyly.