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one hand, while she poses before the world as laboring 

 to restrict the curse with the other. Her right hand 

 knows only too well what her left hand doeth. It does 

 seem that the mere announcement of such a fact would 

 work its own remedy — perhaps it will when its holy 

 fathers are done with the vastly more important busi- 

 ness of determining the size and shape of vestures, or 

 the number of candles, or the posture of the priest 

 most pleasing to God — but before the church can fig- 

 ure as much of an agency in the cause of temperance 

 reform, it will have to wash its hands of its hundred gin 

 palaces. 



The article in Harper s Magazine upon Bedford 

 Square, giving glowing accounts of this Arcadian col- 

 ony, with its aesthetic homes, its Tabard Inn, and its 

 club, made us all desire to visit it. We did so one 

 afternoon, and received a very cordial welcome from 

 Mrs. C. in the absence of her husband. She kindly 

 showed us the grounds and explained all to us. Truth 

 compels me to say we were sadly disappointed, but for 

 this we had probably only ourselves to blame. It is so 

 natural to imagine that exquisite wood-cuts and pretty 

 illustrations set forth grander things than exist. 

 The houses were much inferior to our preconceived 

 ideas, and many had soft woods painted, and most of 

 the cheap shams of ordinary structures. The absence 

 of grand trees, shady dells, and ornamental grounds, 

 and the exceedingly cheap and cheap-looking houses 



