Crossword-Solution: OPHELIAS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Ninas and Ophelias are all very well on the stage, but in a home--” “In a home, when they bring a ‘dot,’ we can be their guardian,” replied Cerizet, sententiously.

But these young ladies of the new style must be Ediths and Eleanors and Ophelias, and all that heathenish kind of thing, as if they were princesses of the blood or play-actresses, instead of being good Christian Susans and Janes and Betties, like their grandmothers were before them.

The foregoing portraits, I admit, are frightfully out of line from these imported models of womanly personality--the stock feminine characters of the current novelists, or of the foreign court poems, (Ophelias, Enids, princesses, or ladies of one thing or another,) which fill the envying dreams of so many poor girls, and are accepted by our men, too, as supreme ideals of feminine excellence to be sought after.

How many times does one recite that to all the Ophelias and Gretchens in the world: Thy bield should be my bosom.

The ingredients of a ball of three hundred, say, would be as follows,--Thirty Marie Stuarts, ten Marguerites, twenty-eight Fausts, fifty Flower Girls, nine Portias, three Clowns, sixteen Matadores, thirty Sailors, twenty-five Ophelias, twenty-five Desdemonas, the remainder uniforms and nondescripts.