300 GRAFTING, OR HORTICULTURAL CONVERSION. 



strength and health of some of the young men 

 above referred to, whose days are spent in 

 smoking, reading questionable novels, dressing, 

 dancing, flirting, driving, card-playing, etc. 



With the exception of smoking (perhaps), the 

 same occupations fill the days of multitudes of 

 ladies. The result of their lives, put in a mathe- 

 matical form, would be something as follows : 



Mr. Augustus Le Grand = froth. 



Miss Laura De Flirte = froth. 



The world both = to a garden with two 

 weeds pulled out. 



The parties themselves, if honest and educated, 

 would admit this summing of their lives to be 

 correct. It's rather strange that they are so 

 contented, in view of the truth. 



In the above light the cynical philosopher 

 may justly regard those who, in a world so full 

 of work, and in such need of work of all kinds, 

 aim to be only idlers. On the Lycurgan prin- 



