- 1Dedication — Preface
- 2Shadows and Sunbeams
- 3Chapter II
- 4Chapter III
- 5Chapter IV
- 6Chapter V
- 7Chapter VI
- 8Chapter VII
- 9Chapter VIII
- 10Aunt Hepsy
- 11Thoughts at Church
- 12The Brothers
- 13Curious Things
- 14The Advantages of a House in a Fashionable Square
- 15Winter Is Coming
- 16Winter Is Coming
- 17“The Other Sex”
- 18Soliloquy of Mr. Broadbrim
- 19Willy Grey
- 20Tabitha Tompkins’ Soliloquy
- 21Soliloquy of a Housemaid
- 22Critics
- 23Forgetful Husbands
- 24Summer Friends
- 25How the Wires Are Pulled: Or, What Printer’s Ink Will Do
- 26Who Would Be the Last Man?
- 27“Only a Cousin”
- 28The Calm of Death
- 29Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting the “Blue Stocking”
- 30Cecile Vray
- 31Sam Smith’s Soliloquy
- 32Love and Duty
- 33A False Proverb
- 34A Model Husband
- 35How Is It?
- 36A Morning Ramble
- 37Hour-Glass Thoughts
- 38Boarding House Experience
- 39A Grumble From the (H)altar
- 40A Wick-Ed Paragraph
- 41Mistaken Philanthropy
- 42Insignificant Love
- 43A Model Married Man
- 44Meditations of Paul Pry, Jun
- 45Sunshine and Young Mothers
- 46Uncle Ben’s Attack of Spring Fever, and How He Got Cured
- 47The Aged Minister Voted a Dismission
- 48The Fatal Marriage
- 49Frances Sargeant Osgood
- 50A Mother’s Prayer in Illness. By Mrs. Osgood
- 51Best Things
- 52The Vestry Meeting
- 53A Broadway Shop Reverie
- 54“The Old Woman”
- 55Sunday Morning at the Dibdins
- 56Sunday Noon at the Dibdins
- 57Items of Travel
- 58Newspaper-Dom
- 59Have We Any Men Among Us?
- 60How to Cure the Blues
- 61Rain in the City
- 62Mrs. Weasel’s Husband
- 63Country Sunday vs. City Sunday
- 64Sober Husbands
- 65Our Street
- 66When You Are Angry
- 67Little Bessie; or, Miss Prim’s Model School
- 68The Delights of Visiting
- 69Helen Haven’s “Happy New Year”
- 70Dollars and Dimes
- 71Our Nelly
- 72“Study Men, Not Books”
- 73“Murder of the Innocents;” or, Home the Place for Married Folks
- 74American Ladies
- 75The Stray Sheep
- 76The Fashionable Preacher
- 77“Cash”
- 78Only a Child
- 79Mr. Pipkin’s Ideas of Family Retrenchment
- 80A Chapter for Nice Old Farmers
- 81Madame Rouillon’s “Mourning Saloon”
- 82Fashion in Funerals
- 83Household Tyrants
- 84Women and Money
- 85The Sick Bachelor
- 86A Mother’s Influence
- 87Mr. Punch Mistaken
- 88Fern Musings
- 89The Time to Choose
- 90Spring Is Coming
- 91Steamboat Sights and Reflections
- 92A Gotham Reverie
- 93Sickness Comes to You in the City
- 94Sickness Comes to You in the Country
- 95Hungry Husbands
- 96Light and Shadow; or, Who Is Responsible?
- 97A Matrimonial Reverie
- 98What Love Will Accomplish
- 99Mrs. Grumble’s Soliloquy
- 100Henry Ward Beecher
- 101An Old Maid’s Decision
- 102A Punch at “Punch”
- 103Father Taylor, the Sailor’s Preacher
- 104Signs of the Times
- 105Whom Does It Concern?
- 106“Who Loves a Rainy Day?”
- 107A Conscientious Young Man
- 108City Scenes and City Life — Number One
- 109City Scenes and City Life — Number Two
- 110City Scenes and City Life — Number Three
- 111City Scenes and City Life — Number Four — Barnum’s Poultry Show
- 112Two Pictures
- 113Feminine Waiters at Hotels
- 114Letter to the Empress Eugenia
- 115Music in the Natural Way
- 116For Ladies That “Go Shopping”
- 117Modern Improvements
- 118The Old Merchant Wants a Situation
- 119A Moving Tale
- 120This Side and That
- 121Mrs. Zebedee Smith’s Philosophy
- 122Opening of the Crystal Palace
- 123A Lance Couched for the Children
- 124A Chapter on Housekeeping
- 125Barnum’s Museum
- 126A Fern Reverie
- 127Apollo Hyacinth
- 128Spoiled Little Boy
- 129A “Brown Study” — Suggested by Brown Vails
- 130Incident at the Five Points House of Industry
- 131Nancy Pry’s Soliloquy
- 132For Little Children
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