Old Maids' Club

The Old Maids' Club was founded by Lillie Dulcimer in her sweet seventeenth year. She had always been precocious and could analyze her own sensations before she could spell. In fact she divided her time between making sensations and analyzing them. She never spoke Early English-the dialect which so enraged Dr. Johnson-but, like John Stuart Mill, she wrote a classical style from childhood. She kept...