conversation.


When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the
second or even the third rank.--_Cicero_.


The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life be done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes,
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.

--_Owen Meredith_




AMERICAN GIRL


Here's to the dearest
Of all things on earth.
(Dearest precisely--
And yet of full worth.)
One who lays siege to
Susceptible hearts.
(Pocket-books also--
That's one of her arts!)
Drink to her, toast her,