The Ladies' Repository Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...did when he was an hungered, and they that were with him; how he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shew-bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests?" Predestinated to he a Tool, and making hie Election enre.--One day, when Robert Hall heard one of those selfadmiring, pompons nothings preach, and was eagerly asked by a lady how he liked the sermon, he answered, "Ma'am, I always thought he was predestinated to be a fool; and he has now made his calling and election sure." Something About The Childrex.--A former volume of the venerable Knickerbocker affords us some rare gems for our children's department, and we draw upon the old gentleman for them: Thoee Curling Locke.--A little girl had a beautiful head of hair, which hung in "clustering curls" down in her neck. One hot summer day she went up-stairs, and cut all the curls off. Coming down she met her mother, who exclaimed, with surprise, "Why, Mary what have you been doing to your hair?" To which she responded, that "she bad cut it off and laid it away in her box, but that she intended to put it on again to-morrow, as aunt Nancy did 1' The Quaker Boy and hie Grandmother.--Charlie was a little Quaker boy of remarkable intellect, but a peculiar, quaint simplicity, as delicious as indescribable. When he was about four years of age his grandmother died. She was a stately and elegant woman; the very type of an English Quaker lady. Charlie had always been accustomed to see her in rich silks, golden browns and silvery grays, with kerchiefs of costly muslin, and the most recherche of lisse caps; and when he come to sec her in her bed-dress, he eyed her with more curiosity than sorrow. The good old lady...