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  2. The Home.

    Most children, even the very little ones, seem to be born with a keen sense of justice. They weigh this and that in their small minds, and nothing hurts or offends a child ...

    Article : 353 words
  3. Short Story.

    I sat at breakfast The word breathed lightly through the open windows, ml[?]g ling mimosa and citron with the o. our of excellent coffee. The second cup ...

    Article : 2,469 words
  4. Comic Cuttings.

    We call some people cranks because they can't be turned. Women in politics are about as graceful as hens in swimming. ...

    Article : 752 words
  5. How Stage Scenery is Produced.

    At theaters of average size a "cloth" — the technical word for a scene— measures about 36ft. wide by 44ft. long. Covent Garden Opera House, which has ...

    Article : 685 words
  6. One of Aesop's Fables.

    Three robbers were walking by the road-side one evening, after a day of profitless anxiety. "It's a pity," said one of them, " that we ...

    Article : 864 words
  7. After the Battle.

    It was the evening after the Fourth, as the glorious sun was sinking to Its georgeous couch of red and white clouds and blue sky, and the small American boy, packed In ...

    Article : 340 words
  8. Women Who Should Not Marry.

    The woman who proudly declares that she cannot even [?] a pocket-handkerchief, never made up a bed in her life, and adds with a simper that she's " been In society ...

    Article : 146 words
  9. Science In Fiction.

    Very plainly marked are the inroads which science has made into present day fictional lirerature. The novelist has come to draw his ...

    Article : 628 words
  10. Barnum and Balley.

    When P. T. Barnum was a young man he paid attention to a young lady in Newtown. The young lady's father conceived a singular and most violent dislike to the ...

    Article : 235 words
  11. Future Steam Spaeds at Sea.

    As to the speed of the future, I remember reading an article on mechanical Impo[?]bilities written about twenty-five years ago. It was well written, and possibly it was ...

    Article : 472 words
  12. A Young Man With a Voice Like a Saw.

    The best of men are at times liable to make very serious mistakes. A man In a Leicestershire village woke in the night and heard what he supposed to be the harsh ...

    Article : 265 words
  13. A Story of the Commune.

    The order had been issued in Paris in 1871 by the new Republician authorities that Communist Insurgents who were taken with arms in thier hands should be put to death ...

    Article : 418 words
  14. A Warwickshire Rustic.

    Sir Henry Irving was telling me the other day (writes Mr. G. R Slms, In the "Referee") of an encounter he and dear old johnny Toole ...

    Article : 257 words
  15. Wanted!

    ("Lady Companion-housekeeper wanted, between 25 and 30 years of age, not under five feet six in height, as wife of advertiser is herself tall. Previous experience other than at home." — The ...

    Article : 256 words
  16. National Birthdays.

    There is, says a writer, one country in the world, and one only, which has no birthday or national holiday. Nor is that country in some remote corner of the map—It is ...

    Article : 209 words
  17. Nephew Tommy to Uncle Paul.

    We are coming, Uncle Paul, Just to pay our duty call, If you do not think it kind of us you oughter, In your country, dear old Oom, ...

    Article : 219 words
  18. Edison's Earliest Inventions.

    When Edison, the renowned electrician, was a callow clerk on the telegraph system of a certain railway in Canada he evolved fro, his boyish brain an ingenious little ...

    Article : 203 words
  19. Curious Wills.

    A will written with a pencil on a stone was once admitted to probate in the United States. The author of "Gossip of the Century" tells a story still more curious:— Two ...

    Article : 185 words
  20. Curious Customs of the Arabs.

    There are many traits of character and custom in which the Arabs are our antipodes. They shave the head but not the chin, and we the reverse. With us, the ...

    Article : 198 words
  21. Such is War.

    The actions of men wounded in battles are often misunderstood. A general officer who has seen much active service [?]tes a pathetic instance of this kind. In the midst of battle ...

    Article : 161 words
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