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Picture Gallery, under the thin disguise of initials, are the portraits of well-known belles of New York whose charms of person and graces of mind would make the present reader regret his tardy advent into this world, did not the
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Admonitory Epistles, addressed to the same sex, remind him that the manners of seventy years ago left much to be desired. In respect of the habit of swearing,
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Simeon advises
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Myra that if ladies were to confine themselves to a single round oath, it would be quite sufficient; and he objects, when he is at the public table, to the conduct of his neighbor who carelessly took up
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Simeon's fork and used it as a toothpick. All this, no doubt, passed for wit in the beginning of the century. Punning, broad satire, exaggerated compliment, verse which has love for its theme and the