She often quoted a remark of Dr. Lyman Beecher's, "The wear and tear of what I cannot do is a great deal more than the wear and tear of what I do."

Yet it is a well-known fact that the wear and tear involved in living at home is far greater than at collegeespecially for womenand the educational advantages correspondingly fewer than those resulting from residence.

Unfortunately, the wearing of a yellow badge on the breast was a custom that had gone out some years before.

But the wearing of a bright red tie would have been unexpecteda bright red tie after the fashion of a South-Western railway guard's!

The wearing of her brother's hat and coat over her own womanly garments was no freak.

MAINTENANCE, CAP OF, an ermine-lined, crimson velvet cap, the wearing of which was a distinction granted first to dukes but subsequently to various other families.

To-day, in the morning, I saw the maid carrying up her gown and boots; this moved me very much, especially the little, little boots, as if the wearing of them was the crown of all virtues in Aniela.