The closing door; to honor retiring matron and patron.

You will find the matron in her room.

The boar, my sisters! aim the fatal dart, And strike the brindled monster to the heart.' Pentheus astonished heard the dismal sound, And sees the yelling matrons gathering round: 20 He sees, and weeps at his approaching fate, And begs for mercy, and repents too late. 'Help, help!

"Maud!" exclaimed the youthful matron, "what has happened!why are you so pale!why send for me?

" "What are you doing to pass the time away?" asked the pretty little matron when she had exhausted her own experiences of the last few years.

Too clever, because he met the subtle matron with the only arm she feared, a perfect honesty.

Mayors of all cities having a population of twenty-five thousand or more, are authorized, by act of the Twenty-fifth General Assembly to appoint police matrons to take charge of all women and children confined at police stations.

When a great multitude of them had assembled, the matrons, who a little before were stretching their hands from the walls to the Romans, began to beseech their countrymen, and after the Gallic fashion to show their dishevelled hair, and bring their children into public view.

" We do not mention this in order to justify a strain of captious criticism, but to ask Mr. Randall, in all seriousness, how it was possible for him to associate a staid and sensible New England matron with Venus and Minerva?

Along the streets the new made bride is led, With torches flaming to the nuptial bed; The youthful dancers in a circle bound To the saft lute and cittern's silver sound, Through the fair streets the matrons in a row, Stand in their porches, and enjoy the show.

O, too unkind unto so kind a wife, Too virtueless to one so virtuous, And too unchaste unto so chaste a matron.

" "Mercy!" cried the alarmed matron, on whom Newgate (for her early life had been passed near its walls), with all its horrors, floated, and a contemplation of its punishments had been her juvenile lessons of morality"Harry!

Oft have the genii of the hoary blade Around thy walls their hell-born demons led; Yet hast thou triumph'd o'er each monster's car, And braved the ills of pestilential war: Oft hast thou seen the circling seasons roll In fond succession round thy native pole; Defied the hoary matron of the ring, And seen her sicken in the lap of Spring.

"And wot about your change of 'art?" demanded one indignant matron, as her husband reached home five seconds ahead of Mr. Billing and hid in the scullery.

" Surprise and indignation deprived the stout matron of utterance.

Many carriages and automobiles were parked in the shadows, holding the more reserved citizensthe governor, the royal family, the bishop, the clergy, and dignified matrons of girth.

Mary Woodley was of course put into immediate possession of her paternal inheritance; and is nowat least she was about four months ago, when I dined with her and her husband at Dale Farma comely, prosperous matron; and as happy as a woman with a numerous progeny and an easy-tempered partner can in this, according to romance writers, vale of grief and tears expect to be.

Supper ended, the party broke up into old and young, the two elder gentlemen sadly discussing politics over their tall glasses of wine, the matrons talking over the wedding and Lady Archfield's stay in London at the parlour fire, and the young folk in a window, waiting for the fiddler and a few more of the young people who were to join them in the dance.

On went the Whirlwind, showing many capers One would hardly deem it meet to tell; Dusting Judge and Parsonflirting gown and papers, Discomposing matron, beau and belle.

" Friday, at three, another knight (Knowing that ladies all delight In music), shod with patents bright, Steers clear of Music Halls: "In Boston's Back Bay, round about, There dwell three matrons, plain and stout: If luck be mine, I'll find them out For 'duty calls.'

"Many years ago there dwelt in a little cot on a hill's side an aged matron and her grandchild; they were alone, but not lonely, for they were happy in each other's society; their wants were few, and their gratitude unbounded.

" "Of course I remember Mr. Kramer," fibbed the matron cordially, all unaware of her daughter's duplicity.

Then follow matrons and virgins, babes and children, reformers and mediaeval saints with a convoy of angels, singing as they march.

" "And what did you do, then, my darling boy?" gasped forth the trembling matron.

Avezzana, war minister, from the top of the cupola of San Pietro in Montori, on seeing the first sentinel advance, gave the signal for the ringing of the tocsin, which brought the entire populace to the walls, the Roman matrons clustering there to encourage their husbands, sons, and brothers to the fight.