Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things.

By this time your hair stands on end, and beads of perspiration form upon your nose. You fly for refuge to the back of the house. Alas! there is a young thing of "sixteen summer...

Yes, there are all sorts on board a steamboat; there is your country-woman in her best toggery; fancy bonnet, brass ear-rings, and the inevitable "locket;" who, when the gong so...

Oh, ye careful and troubled Marthas of the household, stop and take breath. Place a flower on the mantel, that you and your household may perhaps have some in their lives. While...

Has not bother and worry "all seasons for its own," as far as women are concerned? Would it make any difference what "hour in the day" I took to read the papers? _Can_ women _ev...

"_Our_ wives!" As a _woman_ can't have a "wife," I may logically infer that a man wrote the above paragraph, though without these two helping words I should have come to the sam...

A drive, which I shall long remember, we took to a little French village just out of Quebec. I had always thought--shade of Napoleon, forgive me--that the peasant French were an...

The lady visitors at Saratoga get themselves up most stunningly, to walk through the streets to the springs, with their white embroidered petticoats peeping from beneath their r...

I ache from head to foot with my herculean efforts to bring things in this house to a bright New England focus. But I am not sorry, because I can now put to rout some articles l...

Napoleon is said to have lost a battle on account of an underdone leg of mutton. Now, there are many who, shaking their heads, would say, it was "an overruling Providence." I ha...

You know what it is to lie awake at night, I suppose, while every lumpish human creature in the house is sleeping, regardless of the perspiration standing in drops on your bewit...

LUCIA:--I am sorry that in your innocence you should have placed any dependence upon the statements of "a New York Correspondent." It is a pity to pull down any of the fine air-...

A SAFE AMUSEMENT.--All children are fond of animal pets, but it is so difficult to manage such pets in a city that no family can indulge its children's tastes in that respect to...

Finally, and lastly, it is all very nice to laugh at Doctors when one is sound and well; but let a good smart pain come, and none so ready, as those who do so, to send a telegra...

Having said this much, I am happy to add that I have favorite stores for shopping, where I am served by _female_ clerks with a promptness, a politeness, an exactness and a dispa...

"What a splendid day to go to Brompton!" exclaimed Mr. Smith, looking out of the open window and breathing in the fresh air as only a man can who has been pent up in a counting-...

As it is rather an exception to find a little school-_boy_ who is not either a little saintly prig or a little well-dressed ruffian and bully, I have not contemplated their goin...

"Poor Burns!" all exclaim after reading his life and his poems. Poor Burns! _I_ too say; and the next minute I ask, impatiently, why _he_, so conscious of his God-given powers,...

I am not disposed to pity Editors. On the whole, I think they have a very good time. That national sugar-plum for American boys, "Maybe, my son, you will be one day _President_,...

Some of our papers publish, the latter part of every week--and a very good custom it is--a list of different preachers, their places of worship, and the topics selected for the...