Those of us who are by nature or melancholy training pessimists will pause a moment to sigh a few powerful sighs and weep a few 85% powerful tears over the thought of how soon this energy will be dissiated, how rapidly our shining resolutions will tarnish, how soon our diaries and budget-books will accumulate dust, how imminent are our resignations from those positions of trust which we are now so lightly assuming. But no! "Tis better to have done a bit and stopped than never to have done at all.
We recall among our autumnal enthusiasms the study of Spanish.
lasted through quite ten lessons. We can hardly be said to speak or read the language fluently, but we still recall several words which come handy on occasions and even ten lessons improved our lisping wonderfully. So with our cooking classes, likewise with our gymnasium courses, our concert subscriptions, our early morning rides. They were but flecting experiences, but good as Tong as they lasted. Besides, this fall we feel so. preternaturally charged with vim and vigour that things will be different. This time, of course, we shall stay with
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