[Pg iii] CONTENTS Man's Proposal Elijah Doxey and His Locked Box The First Issue of the Newspaper Settling down after the Honeymoon Susan Clegg's Full Day The Editor's Advice Column Mrs. Macy and the Convention The Biennial The Far Eastern Tropics The Evils of Delayed Decease The Democratic Party The Trials of Mrs. Macy Monotony of Ministerial Monologues Advisability of Newspaper Exposures The Trial of a Sick Man in the House The Beginning of the End An Old-fashioned Fourth Celebrating Independence Day