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ABOUT PEOPLE.

they must choose their working comrades from those who possess personal power, though not station. Already has the "committee life" of women done much to break down society's barriers. "Oh, yes, I took the initiative!" said a fashionable woman, "and invited her first. I knew her on the Board of ——. Never heard of her before; but she knows, and has style too; she is a lady." The society leader recognized the words that really open wide all doors; knowledge, manner, savoir faire, are imperative. Saints are charitable toward outward failings, but busy and gay people demand the passport of manner.

Since women have acquired such complex duties or relations the varieties of society within a city's limits are queer. The superabundance of women perhaps has necessitated the frequent reading of a poem or an essay, as an introduction to the later supper. The washerwoman has her "bric-à-brac coterie." The wife of a small store-keeper invites you to

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