PRINTED BY EDWARD 0. JENKINS, 114 Nassau street, New York. STANFORD BBARY JUN 24 1958 051 0557 1.5 1077 N many places, and in none more than in this bustling city of ours, the first of May is a most eventful annual epoch. Everybody, almost, is removing-moving, according to the technical phraseology-or undergoing the revolutionary penance of house-cleaning, or both. We turn our city, about these days, into a kind of Daguerreotype of life on wheels, or rather, perhaps, a grand moving panorama of Bedlam. It is a great epoch, this first of May. It is a season when the ladies have the entire control of one's house, and the men are coolly turned out of doors, to take an airing. On the first of May, we begin the world anew, as it were. It is in accordance with the general regimen, and possibly from sympathy with it, that the PARLOR MAGAZINE, a Knickerbocker by birth and education, enters upon the month of May as upon a great broad-stair of its existence. With this eventful No season likes us month, reader, it begins a new volume. so well in this respect as the ides of May; for aside from the fact that the New-Yorkers signalize the first of May by all ཕྱི |