Thompson's Broadway Cottage. Whether cravats are there wafted around
the buyer's neck, as it were, entangling him hopelessly in silken and
satin webs, the Easy Chair does not know. But it can believe it, as it
passes by upon the outside, and beholds the windows which Paris could
hardly surpass. Through those windows it sees that, as in Paris, the
attendants are often women. It is thereby reminded that in Paris the
women are among the most accomplished accountants also; and it
remembers that in the same city men are cooks. It is very sure that
when Madame Welles, who was afterwards the Marchioness De Lavalette,
became at the death of her husband the head of the great
banking-house, her cook was a man.

And thereupon the Easy Chair falls into meditation upon "the sphere"
of the sexes, and asks itself, as it loiters about the site of the
Broadway Cottage, admiring the pretty shops, whether, if it be womanly
for woman to keep shop and to acquire property by her faithful
industry, it can be manly for man to make laws appropriating and using
her property without her consent?




MRS. GRUNDY AND THE COSMOPOLITAN.


Mrs. Grundy was lately astonished by the remark of a cheerful
cosmopolitan whom she proposed to introduce to a very rich man. She
seemed to catch her breath as she spoke of his exceeding great riches
in the tone of admiring awe which betrays the devout snob. The
cosmopolitan listened pleasantly as Mrs. Grundy spoke with the air of