[Illustration: CORNER IN THE "P.D.'S" ROOMS.]

Most of these literary efforts eventually find a place in the
scrapbook, and their perusal reminds us of many a joyous evening.

"We seem to see, to taste, to hear,
Joys that have passed; who say too fleet
The rush of time? Things passed are dear."

This, then, is a slight account of the P.D.'s, and if their doings be
branded as folly, it is to them at least a very innocent and delicious
sort of folly, and just the thing to free them from the perplexing
problems of the day and fit them to grapple with a freshened and
renewed energy those of the morrow.




Notes.


The new office building of the Chicago Varnish Company, now in the
course of erection at the corner of Dearborn Avenue and Kinzie Street,
Chicago, from the designs of Mr. Henry Ives Cobb, covers a plat of
ground 45 x 90 feet. It is in the style of the brick architecture of
Holland, which has been recently adopted in several instances in New
York and Philadelphia, notably by Mr. Frank Miles Day and Mr. R.W.
Gibson. It is to be built of St. Louis red pressed brick with Bedford
stone trimmings, and will be a noticeable building even in Chicago,