F-l-x:--Yes, you should offer your arm to a lady when seeing her home,but don't keep her standing too long at the gate while you say goodnight.
(FELIX, ENRAGED:--"I never asked such a question.")
C-c-l-y:--No, it is not polite to use "Holy Moses" or "dodgasted" inordinary conversation.
(Cecily had gone down cellar to replenish the apple plate, so thispassed without protest.)
S-r-a:--No, it isn't polite to cry all the time. As to whether youshould ask a young man in, it all depends on whether he went home withyou of his own accord or was sent by some elderly relative.
F-l-t-y:--It does not break any rule of etiquette if you keep a buttonoff your best young man's coat for a keepsake. But don't take more thanone or his mother might miss them.
DAN KING.
FASHION NOTES
Knitted mufflers are much more stylish than crocheted ones this winter.It is nice to have one the same colour as your cap.
Red mittens with a black diamond pattern on the back are much run after.Em Frewen's grandma knits hers for her. She can knit the double diamondpattern and Em puts on such airs about it, but I think the singlediamond is in better taste.
The new winter hats at Markdale are very pretty. It is so exciting topick a hat. Boys can't have that fun. Their hats are so much alike.
CECILY KING.
FUNNY PARAGRAPHS
This is a true joke and really happened.
There was an old local preacher in New Brunswick one time whose name wasSamuel Clask. He used to preach and pray and visit the sick just like aregular minister. One day he was visiting a neighbour who was dying andhe prayed the Lord to have mercy on him because he was very poor andhad worked so hard all his life that he hadn't much time to attend toreligion.
"And if you don't believe me, O Lord," Mr. Clask finished up with, "justtake a look at his hands."
FELIX KING.
GENERAL INFORMATION BUREAU
DAN:--Do porpoises grow on trees or vines?
Ans. Neither. They inhabit the deep sea.
FELIX KING.
(DAN, AGGRIEVED:--"Well, I'd never heard of porpoises and it soundedlike something that grew. But you needn't have gone and put it in thepaper."
FELIX:--"It isn't any worse than the things you put in about me that Inever asked at all."
CECILY, SOOTHINGLY:--"Oh, well, boys, it's all in fun, and I think OurMagazine is perfectly elegant."
FELICITY, FAILING TO SEE THE STORY GIRL AND BEVERLEY EXCHANGING WINKSBEHIND HER BACK:--"It certainly is, though SOME PEOPLE were so opposedto starting it.")
What harmless, happy fooling it all was! How we laughed as we read andlistened and devoured apples! Blow high, blow low, no wind can everquench the ruddy glow of that faraway winter night in our memories. Andthough Our Magazine never made much of a stir in the world, or was themeans of hatching any genius, it continued to be capital fun for usthroughout the year.