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AM sure with the pleasant summer days that many an invitation comes to my girls to go a-visiting. I hope that each one may be able to accept, and that her visit may be a succession of bright and happy days worthy to be put down on the book of life as among the golden ones. This result, of course, depends largely on the girl herself. I can see her look at me with doubt as I say this, and yet it is certainly true. People invite others to have a good time, and surely it becomes the duty of the visitor to meet this desire half way and achieve what is wished. Your invitation has come. If it does not state exactly how long your friends wish you to stay, write and ask them, or if you know them sufficiently well set an exact time yourself, so that the housekeeper will understand that you will arrive on a certain clay by the four o'clock train, and leave two weeks after on the ten o'clock train. Do not allow anything to change