She believes in nothing but herself, and never accepts her own personality seriously. She has aspirations after the impossible, and is herself far from probable; she regards her husband as an unnecessary evil, and her children as disturbances without compensating advantages. She writes more than she reads and seldom scribbles anything. She has no feelings, and yet has a yearning after the intense. She is the antithesis of her grandmother, and has made further development in generations to come quite impossible. She thinks without the thoughts of a male, and yet has lost the comprehension of a female. To sum up, she is hardly up to the standard of a man, and yet has sunk several fathoms below the level of a woman. * * * * * MEM. AT LORD'S DURING THE ETON AND HARROW, FRIDAY, JULY 13. (_It rained the better part, which became the worse part, of the day._)--Not much use trying to do anything with any "match" in the wet. * * * * * [Illustration: TO GOLFERS. SUGGESTION FOR A RAINY DAY. SPILLIKINS ON A GRAND SCALE.] * * * * * WHAT WE MAY EXPECT SOON. _By Our Own Wire._--Dispute broken out between local employer of labour--Shoemaker with two apprentices--and his hands. One apprentice won't work with t'other. Shoemaker locked out both. _Later News._--Dispute developing. Amalgamated Association of Trade Unions sent fifty thousand men with rifles into town. Also park of artillery. Arbitration suggested. _Special Telegram._--Federated Society of Masters occupying Market Place and principal streets with Gatling guns. Expresses itself willing to accept Arbitration in principle. _A Day After._--Conflicts to-day between opposing forces. Streets resemble battle-field. Authorities announce--"will shortly act with vigour." Enrolled ten extra policemen. Police, including extra ten, captured by rioters, and locked up in their own cells. Business--except of undertakers--at standstill. _Latest Developments._--More conflicts, deaths, outrages, incendiarism. Central Government telegraphs to Shoemaker to take back both apprentices to stop disastrous disorder. No reply. Shoemaker and both apprentices been killed in riots. _Close of the Struggle._--Stock of gunpowder exhausted. Both sides inclined to accept compromise. Board of Conciliation formed. Survivors of employers and employed shake hands. Town irretrievably ruined, but peace firmly re-established. * * * * * WHAT! ALREADY!--"I'm afraid," said Mrs. R., "that the new Tower Bridge is in a bad way. I hear it said, of course I do not know with what truth, that it has 'bascules.' Now weren't they the insects that destroyed the crops one year and gave so many persons the influenza? I think you'll find I'm right." * * *