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  2. THE MOTHERLESS CHICKS.

    It was on a dear old American plantation, where there were a large number of hens. In the spring, when the hens wanted to sit, it was sometimes ...

    Article : 448 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,648 words
  4. HOW TO MAINTAIN FAMILY LOVE.

    In these days when young men appear less inclined than heretofore to marry, and when young women lack the opportunity or do not care to ...

    Article : 216 words
  5. OUR FACES.

    The constant working of the human mind and the bent of one's life are certain to be displayed in some way in the physiognomy. We study a man ...

    Article : 187 words
  6. A BOY WHO BECAME A GREAT SCULPTOR.

    "The best men," says a writer, whose name I have forgotten, "are not those who have waited for chances, but who have taken them—besleged the chance ...

    Article : 391 words
  7. Mistaken Courtesy.

    A guileless rustic, who wished to be employed on one of our great railways, emerged from the examination room and informed his expectant father that ...

    Article : 142 words
  8. THE WEALTH OF NATIONS.

    What, then, are a nation's possessions? The great words that have been said in it; the great deeds that have been done in it; the great ...

    Article : 120 words
  9. Beyond Recall.

    An engineer from Sunderland was spending a few days in London with a friend, and after a busy morning sight-seeing, the Londoner chose a ...

    Article : 111 words
  10. WIVES WHO HELP THEIR HUSBANDS.

    A woman blessed with the facul of saying or doing the right thing at the right minute is bound to be a help to her husband. The woman ...

    Article : 105 words
  11. SINGULAR BURIAL CUSTOMS.

    When the Laplanders bury a corpse, they put into the coffin an axe, a flint and steel, a flask of brandy, some venison, and dried fish. With the ...

    Article : 289 words
  12. A MARAUDER'S UNDOING.

    Late one night, at a house in a Midland town, a lady's maid, after retiring to her bedroom, was trying on a new pair of corsets. "Not such ...

    Article : 152 words
  13. AIDED BY HIS WIFE.

    A business man, who asserts that he owes much of his success in life to his wife, remarked that a woman may be her husband's partner in every ...

    Article : 543 words
  14. Giving Him Encouragement.

    A young man and his sweetheart were walking together through the lanes and fields of a well-known Lancashire district. ...

    Article : 111 words
  15. He.

    I rather liked her style; in truth Her looks and ways appeal to me; I seem to please her fancy, too—I wonder what her age may be? ...

    Article : 57 words
  16. Applied Externally.

    While staying in the north of England a commercial traveller contracted a severe cold, which obliged him to remain in bed. ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. No Such Luck.

    The thin, pale man in the large bathing suit, standing knee-deep in the water, sighed. "Why," asked his friend, "are you ...

    Article : 63 words
  18. CHINESE PROVERBS.

    Proverbial sayings are as much a part of the Chinese daily language as they are of our own. These are some good specimens:— ...

    Article : 283 words
  19. A DOG'S SYMPATHY.

    Of a dog's humanity here is an extraordinary example:—Some inhuman wretches had beaten a poor cat, dragged it through the ...

    Article : 220 words
  20. Nothing to Fear

    A politician was making a speech when he was annoyed by the frequent interruptions of an opposition voter, who seemed bent on causing trouble. ...

    Article : 80 words
  21. Who Did?

    A little fellow who had just felt the hard side of the slipper, turned to his mother for consolation. "Mother," he asked. "did grandpa ...

    Article : 144 words
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