otient to the lady's own representation, and the result is
the lady's age, as near as a lady's age can be ascertained.

EXAMPLE: MRS. WELLINGTON SEYMOUR gives herself out to be 28. Her
friends, MRS. M'CABE, MRS. ALFRED STEVENS, MADAME CORNICHON, and MISS
JERKINS, indignantly declare that they will eat their respective heads
off if she is a day younger than 46. Now the disputed account stands
thus:

Years
MRS. SEYMOUR'S age, as represented by her friends, 46
MRS. SEYMOUR'S age, as represented by herself 28
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Difference between the two Accounts 18

That difference has to be divided by 2, which, I believe, will give 9.
If that is added to MRS. SEYMOUR'S own statement, the result obtained
will be the answer required. Accordingly MRS. WELLINGTON SEYMOUR'S age
is 37--a fact, which, upon consulting the family Bible, I find to be
perfectly correct--and I only hope MRS. S. will, some day, forgive me
for publishing it. There are many other eccentricities in female
arithmetic, such as increasing twofold the amount of a gentleman's
fortune, and diminishing fiftyfold the amount of a lady's--and a general
proneness, besides, to magnify figures, leading them, at times, into
strange errors of exaggeration, which would debar them from following
the profession of a penny-a-liner, or writing works of numerical
fidelity, like "M'Culloch's Commercial Dictionary." But as I do not love
the female mind particularly for its eccentricities, but rather for its
beauties, I shall close the door upon this ungallant subject; for, if a
woman is good and beautiful, it matters but little how old she is.

NETTING FOR LADIES.

Netting is now followed with so much ardor, as a female accomplishment,
that one would think there is a great deal of net profit to be derived
from it. The ladies' periodicals are full of instructions in this new
popular art; and we have seen a couple of closely-printed columns
devoted to directions for netting a mitten.

We had some thoughts of endeavoring to furnish the necessary
instructions for netting a gentleman's nightcap, but we found that we
should not have room for more than half of it, and that the tassel, at
all events, would have to stand over till our next, and perhaps be
continued in a still remoter Pocket-Book.

Being desirous of furnishing some instructio