§ 1. Second Vice-President of the American Cremation Society. § 2. Member of Text Committee of the Society to Improve the Morals of Persons Undergoing Sentence. § 3. Chairman of the Inspecting Committee of the Sterilized Milk Association. § 4. Vice-President of the American Mothers' Kindergarten Association. § 5. Life member of Society to Protect the Indians. § 6. Honorary member of the Press Women's Social and Beneficent Club. § 7. Member of the Forty Associates Sewing Bee (luncheon club). § 8. Third Vice-President of the Woman's Club, and active participator in the following courses of original work arranged by the members of the Club: (_a_) Literary Course for 1897-98. Shakespeare's Women. The Dramatists of the Elizabethan Period. (_b_) Scientific Course for 1897-98. Darwin's Theory of Earth-worms. The present Status of the Conflict between Science and Religion. Recent Polar Expeditions. (_c_) Political Course for 1897-98. The Tariff Bills of American History. The Theory of Bimetallism. § 9. Member of The Molière Club. (Class to read French plays one evening a fortnight.) § 10. President of the Home Beautifying Society. (Her pet interest.) § 11. To say nothing of dinner-parties, receptions, ladies' luncheons, the opera, concerts, authors' readings, and other more or less engrossing social diversions and distractions. "There!" continued Josephine. "And this does not include the thought and worry she spends upon Mrs. J. Webb Johnston." "And who, pray, is Mrs. J. Webb Johnston?" I asked. "Her fascinating, deadly, and demoralizing rival," answered Josephine, with a mournful wag of the head. "I am really very sorry, my dear philosopher, that this fresh complication has appeared, for I really think your Mrs. Sherman had all she could attend to already. But I must be faithful to the truth, even though our cherished hopes are thereby frustrated. Mustn't I, philosopher?" "Certainly," said I; "but since you instead of me seem to be writing this letter, I suggest that it is time to give our correspondents time to breathe by beginning a fresh paragraph." To _A Modern Woman_ with Social Ambitions. III.