_Fin de Siècle!_ Ah, that phrase, though taste spurn it, I
Fear, threatens staying with us to eternity.
Who _will_ deliver
Our nerves, all a-quiver,
From that pest-term, and its fellow "modernity"?
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[Illustration: AT THE DOOR; OR, PATERFAMILIAS AND THE YOUNG SPARK.
_Electric Light_. "WHAT, WON'T YOU LET ME IN--A DEAR LITTLE CHAP LIKE
ME?"
_Householder_. "AH! YOU'RE A LITTLE TOO DEAR FOR ME--AT PRESENT."]
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