CHAPTER IX.

SOCIAL GATHERINGS.

No List of Recreations Furnished, and Why--One Suggestion, nevertheless--The Indolent have No Claim--The Busy need Recreation--The Sedentary need Air and Sunbeams--The Active want Books--The Solitary require Society--Talk the Universal Recreation--Social Life--Grand "Party"--More Excellent Way suggested--What the Fitzshoddies Think--Mrs. F.'s Disappointment--Mr. F. Doubts--Miss F. Trembles--The Reform Unpopular--The Author Despondent in regard to it, yet Firm in the Faith, Page 153