If characteristics of that description fail to maintain the high standard of the New York club, then it will be due to the fact that our standards of business deportment have turned topsy-turvy.

They passed with incredible celerity, those next ten daysthose strange, delicious, topsy-turvy days.

How it hurries with humming, Leaping and running, At the tipsy-topsy Tunning Of Mistress Eleanor Rumming!

The whole country had been turned topsy-turvy; towns had been deserted, or left only to the women and children; fields had been left unreaped; herds of cattle went without anyone to care for them.

In an hour he upset the old conditions, turned our business topsy-turvy and disappeared with as little regard for the Continental as if it had been a turnip.

I brought her a photograph of Jennie Brice as "Topsy" and another one as "Juliet".

Still it is nothing new or marvellous when so many other things go counter, that this also should be topsy-turvy.

These are not Margaret's, surely?" "No, ma'am, they belong to the young men who have turned the house topsy-turvy with their tableaux, their Revolution celebration, their banner, and carousing generally," said Mrs. Jeffrey, rather pleased than otherwise at being the first to tell the news.

I tried to be as composed as possible, and this, I think, kept them a little in awe; for they were perfectly civil in words, and did no damage, except to turn things topsy turvy.

The centre of the square was occupied by swings, where some eight or ten boat-loads of persons were flying topsy-turvy into the air, making one giddy to look at them, and constant fearful shrieks arose from the lady swingers, at finding themselves in a horizontal or inverted position, high above the ground.

We had a terrible time with it, and I had to take everything out, and turn my desk topsy-turvy, and your letters and all my other papers got raving distracted, and all mixed up with bits of sealing-wax, old pens, and dear knows what not, when down comes A. from the school-room, to say that Mrs. Stearns had sent for me to come right out, thinking she was dying.

The country will be turned so topsy-turvy that there will be no nice inquiry into bygones, and at any rate I can keep out of London.

The young lady is not quite of the rank of life I should have chosen for you; but ranks and classes are all topsy-turvy in England at present, and when we are ruled over by a brewer, it would be nice indeed to refuse to take a wool-stapler's sister for wife.

BARNUM, HILMA L. Topsy.

FLACK, MARJORIE. Topsy.

Topsy turvey circus.

The Topsy-turvy family.

To us it seems topsy-turvy that a mother should have to ask her son's consent to marry again, but to the Greeks that was a matter of course.

Following the topsy-turvy, unchivalrous custom of the Greek poets, Euripides makes a woman"a thing the world

Athenian women were more chaste than Spartans because they had to be, and they were superior also in being less masculine; but the topsy-turvy Athenian men looked down on them because they were not more masculine and because they lacked the education which they themselves perversely refused to give them!

Wherever we look we find this topsy-turvy state of affairsmarriages made to suit the parents instead of the bride and groom; while the welfare of the grandchildren is of course never dreamt of.

But for this topsy-turvyness, this folly, this immorality, we must not blame love, but those who persistently thwarted loveor tried to thwart it.

In the Journal des Goncourts (V., 214-215) a young Japanese, with characteristic topsy-turviness, comments on the "coarseness" of European ideas of love, which he could understand only in his own coarse way.

Think of the economic result of that; it would turn the world topsy-turvy.

Jones had misplaced or lost his wire and began to turn the camp topsy-turvy in his impatient efforts to locate it.