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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 17 words
  3. Music and Drama

    There is not far to look for the chief centre of musical interest in Australia just now. Thoughts are focussed entirely on the opera season which has ...

    Article : 900 words
  4. "JUST THE 'CUTEST."

    She was very literary, and from America. She had just been "doing" Abbotsford. The well known writer was a little ...

    Article : 83 words
  5. Something Langhable. RINGING TRUE

    Miss Husband Hunter, after a quiet tete-a-tete with a man to whom she had just been introduced, was asked how she liked his conversation. ...

    Article : 38 words
  6. THE DIFFICULT STAGE

    "And what," they asked of the surgeon who had saved Mr. Tightfist from an untimely end, "did you consider the most difficult stage of the operation?' ...

    Article : 41 words
  7. GETTING OUT OF A DIFFICULTY

    Scene: A barrack-room in India, not many miles from Agra. Corporal in charge of section taking list of necessaries for his section. ...

    Article : 92 words
  8. ONLY WAY OUT.

    Great actress: That's an atrocious portrait! Is that the best you can do? Is there no way you can improve upon it? Suggest something. ...

    Article : 47 words
  9. DIFFERENT EVERY NIGHT

    Michael was saying his prayers. "Bless thy little pig to-night." said Michael. "No, darling, 'little lamb,'" corrected his mother. Michael raised ...

    Article : 58 words
  10. VERY UPSETTING.

    The teacher was explaining to the class the meaning of the word "axiom." "An axiom," she said, "is a ...

    Article : 121 words
  11. PLAIN AS DAYLIGHT

    Isaacson ran what he called a "Threepenny and sixpenny shop." One day a woman came in, chose a toy, and put a sixpence in Isaacson's hand. ...

    Article : 73 words
  12. POLITE?

    Helen was at her first party. When refreshments were served she refused a second helping of ice cream with a polite "No, thanks," although she ...

    Article : 61 words
  13. HIS SCHOLASTIC EXPERIENCES.

    A hungry young cockney, seeing no other prospect of obtaining a regular dinner, enlisted. "Can you read, and write?" he was ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. QUITE READY!

    Jones and smith were going into a restaurant for lunch. "Come along, old man," said Jones, to Smith, who was an anti-Pussyfoot, ...

    Article : 51 words
  15. HOW COULD HE KNOW?

    A man was waiting for a train that was very much overdue. After a time he could control himself no longer, and started to swear. ...

    Article : 73 words
  16. QUITE A DIFFERENT THING.

    "And how much do you earn, my young friend?" asked a client of the junior clerk in a solicitor's office the other day. ...

    Article : 95 words
  17. ONLY DIFFERENCE.

    The rector of a fashionable London church was induced to preach at a well known prison. When in the vestry he said to the ...

    Article : 85 words
  18. ROUNDABOUT WAY.

    "As I understand it," said the heathen, "you propose to civilise me." "Exactly so." "You mean to get me out of habits ...

    Article : 102 words
  19. HIS SECOND WORST.

    "Do your worst!" she whispered hoarsely. His heart failed him. "Do your worst!" ...

    Article : 69 words
  20. Nature Stories

    Perhaps the most interesting of all our native frogs is the famous water-holding frog which is also sometimes called the burrowing frog (C. ...

    Article : 1,347 words
  21. CHIPS AND CHAFF

    Bigamy is its own punishment. The single purpose of most girls is to get a husband. Ink, the blackest of all things, ...

    Article : 899 words
  22. A REMINDER

    The beadle was in the habit of showing visitors over the remains of the abbey in the parish. On one occasion he had done so for a lady. who, ...

    Article : 75 words
  23. STEEP STEP

    They were simple fellows from aremote village in East Anglia. They wandered about the hotel looking for the room where they expected to find ...

    Article : 96 words
  24. HIS THOUGHTS WERE UNPLEASANT.

    An elderly man who knew something of law lived in an Irish village where no solicitor practised. He was in the habit of arranging the disputes of his ...

    Article : 118 words
  25. LUCKY GIRL

    Miss M. Wilson is now described as probably the luckiest girl in Melbourne. On April 2 she dropped a wallet containing £254, in Elizabeth street, and ...

    Article : 66 words
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