here is only one girl in the world worthy of him.
Now, if I have aroused your curiosity sufficiently to have you call
for 'more,' I will change the subject, and give you a little of the
gossip that I know will interest you.

"The last sensation is nothing else than the elopement of Melinda
Brown with a curly-haired hotel waiter. Imagine the scene when the
fact became known to the disconsolate Brown _mere_. The girl has
found her level at last, my dear. It was all time and trouble
thrown away trying to make anything of her. Melinda could not be a
lady, because, as I always contended, it wasn't in her. She is now
in her proper sphere. I hear that her husband has set up in the
same business in which his worthy papa-in-law began life. Melinda
lives in apartments over the grocery, and enjoys life hugely, as
she never did in the elegant mansion she has left forever.

"I've still another wedding to chronicle. You surely have not
forgotten our fair Cynthia, the former confidante of Mrs. P.
Crandall Crane, but now, alas! her friend no longer, but that
lady's deadliest foe. But to 'begin at the beginning:'

"Some months ago Mrs. Crane made the acquaintance of some new
people, whom she hastened to describe and present to her dearest
friend. One of them was a young gentleman, of fair, effeminate
beauty and manners, and extreme youth. In fact, he had but just
been emancipated from the strictest discipline of stern tutors.
This fortunate youth was the sole heir of a wealthy and indulgent
step-father, who had followed the remains of a second 'dear
departed' to the grave, and was said to be inconsolable, living but
to secure the happiness of this only son of his cherished and lost
Amelia. The gentleman, whose name was Townsend, purchased an
elegant villa at a convenient distance from the city, and installed
therein a faraway cousin as housekeeper. This worthy person was
immediately surrounded by the Crane clique, who made her long and
oft-repeated visits, until, no doubt, she wondered greatly at the
cause of her popularity. Of course, being only a poor dependent on
the bounty of her relative, she was naturally pleased and flattered
at being the object of so much friendly regard, and she took every
pains to make herself agreeable to her new-found friends. Another