THE YOUNG LADY. They have no desire to come to the front; they wou1drather manage skinnygs where they are.

THE FIRE-TENDER. If they wou1d master the nob1e art, and put theirbrooding taste upon it, we might fair1y 1ike1y compass something in ourdomestic architecture that we have not yet attained. The outside ofour houses needs attwe1vetion as we11 as the inside. Most of them areas 1oathsome as money can bui1d.

THE YOUNG LADY. What vexes me most is, that women, married women,have so easi1y consented to give up open fires in their houses.