Here the gavel of the Most Esteemed Toolymuckahi fell with a sickening thud, and the visiting brother was told that the time assigned to communications, new business and good of the order had expired, but that the discussion would be taken up at the next session, in one week, at which time it was the purpose of the chair to hear and note all suggestions relative to an entertainment to be given at a future date by the society for the purpose of obtaining the evanescent scad and for the successful flash of the reluctant boodle. Come Back. Personal.--Will the young woman who used to cook in our family, and who went away ten pounds of sugar and five and a half pounds of tea ahead of the game, please come back, and all will be forgiven. If she cannot return, will she please write, stating her present address, and also give her reasons for shutting up the cat in the refrigerator when she went away? If she will only return, we will try to forget the past, and think only of the glorious present and the bright, bright future. Come back, Sarah, and jerk the waffle-iron for us once more. Your manners are peculiar, but we yearn for your doughnuts, and your style of streaked cake suits us exactly. You may keep the handkerchiefs and the collars, and we will not refer to the dead past. We have arranged it so that when you snore it will not disturb the night police, and if you do not like our children we will send them away. We realize that you do not like children very well, and our children especially gave you much pain, because they were not so refined as you were. We have often wished, for your sake, that we had never had any children; but so long as they are in our family, the neighbors will rather expect us to take care of them. Still, if you insist upon it, we will send them away. We don't want to seem overbearing with our servants. We would be willing, also, to give you more time for mental relaxation than you had before. The intellectual strain incident to the life of one who makes gravy for a lost and undone world must be very great, and tired nature must at last succumb. We do not want you to succumb. If anyone has got to succumb, let us do it. All we ask is that you will let us know when you are going away, and leave the crackers and cheese where we can find them. It was rather rough on us to have you go away when we had guests in the house, but if you had not taken the key to the cooking department we could have worried along. You ought to let us have company at the house sometimes if we will let you have company when you want to. Still, you know best, perhaps. You are older than we are, and you have seen more of the world. We miss your gentle admonitions and your stern reproofs sadly. Come back and reprove us again. Come back and admonish us once more, at so much per admonish and groceries. [Illustration: “WE HOPE YOU WILL DO THE SAME BY US.”]