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great, but girls must wait until the hour when carriages are ordered, and patiently endure the experience of never being sought. They are wall-flowers, and as such must cultivate self-respect and remember that if they do not delight a young man's fancy, they yet are beloved in their homes. Of course there is fault all round; wall-flowers are to blame for being wall-flowers; a belle cannot appreciate the situation; it is better to go to cooking-schools and to read at Old Ladies' Homes, than to submit to being snubbed in society. If the wall-flower element is inborn it makes no matter how many elegant parties a girl may give, at the next German she may not be taken out, even once, by any of the young men who have drank her wine and fed on her boned turkey. It was not so a few years ago. Then the fact that one had given a party was full indemnification for being a wall-flower, and invitations to dance were certain for at least

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