Did you chance, my friends, any of you, to see, the other day, the
83rd number of the _Graphic,_ with the picture of the Queen's concert
in it? All the fine ladies sitting so trimly, and looking so sweet,
and doing the whole duty of woman--wearing their fine clothes
gracefully; and the pretty singer, white-throated, warbling "Home
sweet home" to them, so morally, and melodiously! Here was yet to be
our ideal of virtuous life, thought the _Graphic!_ Surely we are
safe back with our virtues in satin slippers and lace veils--and our
Kingdom of Heaven is come _with_ observation!