The Duties of Our Women. IN the coming time the weapon nearest at hand is always the cheapest. Only dilettanti go about picking and choosing. Shillyshallyers are cowards.
Brave men are always armed.
There is no better weapon, for instance, than one which is to be found in every house in the refined quarter of the metropolis. A grand piano sent down upon a troop of hussars will play such a sonata over their heads as the scoundrels never marched off to. A chimney-glass is a rare thing for smashing. I should not like to be the Saxon assassin upon whom some white-armed girl of Erin flung it. Pokers and tongs everybody will know the use of.