Terms moderate.
"Mrs. Proser, whose success as a professional mind-dresser is so well-
known that lengthened advertisement is unnecessary, prepares ladies or
gentlemen with appropriate remarks to be made at dinner-parties or at-
homes. Mrs. P. keeps herself well up to date with all the latest
scandals."
"Poor, poor, straighteners!" said my father to himself. "Alas! that it
should have been my fate to ruin you--for I suppose your occupation is
gone."
Tearing himself away from the College of Spiritual Athletics and its
affiliated shop, he passed on a few doors, only to find himself looking
in at what was neither more nor less than a chemist's shop. In the
window there were advertisements which showed that the practice of
medicine was now legal, but my father could not stay to copy a single one
of the fantastic announcements that a hurried glance revealed to him.
It was also plain here, as from the shop already more fully described,
that the edicts against machines had been repealed, for there were
physical try-your-strengths, as in the other shop there had been moral
ones, and such machines under the old law would not have been tolerated
for a moment.
My father made his purchases just as the last shops were closing. He
noticed that almost all of them were full of articles labelled
"Dedication.
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