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ABOUT PEOPLE.

years ago, while there is more intellectual pretension.

Advertisements, the higher intelligence offices, and bureaux of labor testify to the presumed value of brain over hand education, although the country is suffering for good handiwork of all kinds. Women who apply for situations want places as teachers, travelling companions, translators, copyists, journalists, lecturers, and orators. One woman wanted some work of "renumerative beneficence, as the Almighty would be wroth with her if her powers remained unemployed; yet she must gain her daily bread while awaiting the results of her pen." Another, clad in dowdy trimmings and frowsy feathers, brought an article "written in a few moments' leisure on the stairs, just thrown off" (she was tending table till something better turned up), as proof of what she could do. A lover of her kind, but no thinker, wishes for paying parlor audiences. Still another craves some large

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