that each
kind of garment that was bought will be mentioned here, neither will we
go into a minute description of the amount of lace, embroidery,
insertion and scallop work on the various garments.

In the four weeks previous to Julia's wedding day she had numerous
callers to see her jewelry and her bridal trousseau.

The amount of close inspection, quick observation, speculative thought
and general talk that was given to all articles pertaining to the
bride's wardrobe and jewelry, if devoted to some of the serious social
problems of the nation, would have settled them thoroughly for all time.

"Is it not strange," remarked Mr. Hammond one evening after some
callers had gone and Julia had retired, "the amount of interest and
thought people take in things that are really of so little consequence
to them; but things which are of the greatest importance to their own
welfare it is hard to get them to give two minutes' consideration to
them? They want excitement, and love it a great deal more than an
intelligent understanding of such issues as are to them of vital
importance. For instance, government ownership of railroads, telegraphs
and telephones to be operated at cost for the benefit of the people; the
issuing and loaning of money by the government to the people, instead of
by the banks to the people; also the adoption by the nation of the
Initiative and Referendum."

Some of the elderly ladies in Orangeville who had lived in the east many
years before coming to California, brought to Orangeville some of their
old sayings, and one of these sayings began to float through the
atmosphere of Orangeville and was whispered from one to another; namely,
that Julia Hammond had fallen into a tub of butter. Now, on first
hearing such a statement one would think a sad calamity had happened to
the young lady, especially when taking into consideration that in a few
weeks' time she expected to change her name. But upon making an
examination of her wearing apparel, one saw no sign of such an accident,
and when she appeared at the table in her elegant morning wrapper you
could not see any grease spots on her well-fitting garment, and when you
began to wonder what they could mean by saying that Julia Hammond had
fallen into a tub of butter, you resolve you will make a further and
closer scrutiny of that young lady's person. At last it begins to dawn
upon your mind, for you notice that when she puts her elbow on the table
and her hand