Ices are now served at garden-parties in small paper cups placed on ice-plates-a fashion which is very neat, and which saves much of the mussiness which has heretofore been a feature of these entertainments.
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The idea had grown out of the inconvenience of finding a paste-jar, and the general mussiness of scrap-book keeping.
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Again and again he nearly lost his balance, in his violent attempts to dress his beautiful plumage, and remove the last remnant of nest mussiness.
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