this paper, but there is high ground also, where the air is good and
wholesome, and where the outlook on the world is wide. That is the
reason I take it."

"I was not aware that many young ladies looked, in journals of this
character, beyond the record of deaths and marriages."

"We studied ancient history. Is it odd that we should have a faint
desire to know what Americans are doing, as well as what the
Babylonians did?"

"Oh, I do not decry your course as irrational. It seems rather--
rather--"

"Rather too rational for a young lady."

"I did not say that; but here is my excuse," and I took from a table
near a periodical entitled "The Young Lady's Own Weekly," addressed to
Miss Adah Yocomb.

"Have not young men their own weeklies also--which of the two classes
is the more weakly?"

"Ahem! I decline to pursue this phase of the subject any further. To
return to our premise, this journal," and I laid my hand on the old
paper caressingly. "It so happens that I read it also, and thus learn
that we have had many thoughts in common; though, no doubt, we would
differ on some of the questions discussed in it. What do you think of
its politics?"