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  2. THE ART OF BEING WELL DRESSED.

    It is not always the women who have the most to spend on clothes who appear the best dressed, as you may have noticed. It is often the case that ...

    Article : 486 words
  3. [Short Story.] JEANETTE'S BRIEF ROMANCE.

    Jeanette was washing the kitchen window when she saw the roadster turn into the drive next door. Jimsy's tricycle was on the driveway. She ran ...

    Article : 954 words
  4. LIKEABLE PEOPLE.

    "One day, "while travelling home in the train, a friend and I discussed like ability in people," writes Mr. St. John Ervine. ...

    Article : 400 words
  5. SPOONS AS LOVE TOKENS.

    How the word "spoon" in its ordinary sense became to be associated with love-making and courting in times past can only be explained by the idea ...

    Article : 472 words
  6. THE CAMERA'S CAREER.

    To a great many of us a holiday would hardly be complete without a camera. Whether we are walking or cycling or spending joyously lazy ...

    Article : 391 words
  7. WHEN GRANDMA MARRIED.

    The wedding could not possibly take place on the 13th of the month, or a Friday, nor in the month of May. She could not be married in a green ...

    Article : 301 words
  8. THE JOY OF WORK.

    Normal people love to work; they are bubbling over with energy that must have an outlet. They want something to do that counts. Just recall ...

    Article : 542 words
  9. ORIGIN OF BISCUITS.

    The following charming little anecdote makes it seem very simple. In the year 1550 King Henry II. of France was making a tour of his ...

    Article : 230 words
  10. PARENTAL GUIDANCE.

    Every mother indulges in daydreams about her daughter—what she will be like in appearance and in character—what happiness and success ...

    Article : 304 words
  11. EDGAR WALLACE—LAST DAYS.

    Walter Huston told me a pathetic story of the last days of Edgar Wallace in Hollywood. The writer of the police thrillers and the actor of police ...

    Article : 165 words
  12. A GRECIAN LEGEND.

    When Bacchus was a boy, he journeyed through Hellas to go to Naxia; and, as the way was very long, he grew tired, and sat down upon a stone ...

    Article : 335 words
  13. BE PLUMP—AND SUCCEED.

    How many readers have noticed that all the women who gained great importance in history were plump? Catherine the Great, the most ...

    Article : 174 words
  14. SAILORS' SUPERSTITIONS.

    The average sailor is steeped in superstition. A hatch-cover upside down, or the loss of a swab or a bucket overboard, fills him with foreboding. He ...

    Article : 231 words
  15. BRITAIN'S TOURIST HARVEST

    Foreign tourists spent £25,500,000 in Britain during 1934, according to a recent estimate. Of this, about £9,639,000 was spent ...

    Article : 103 words
  16. WHAT IS OLD AGE?

    Many experts who specialise in the study of longevity are declaring that we shall have to revise all our ideas about old age before long. Often, ...

    Article : 272 words
  17. TRY A RUB-DOWN WITH SUNSHINE.

    Sunshine benefits health chiefly because its rays, acting on the skin, create vitaman D, which is absorbed into the body. ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. THE HIGH COST OF GOVERNMENT.

    What national services cost nowadays compared with their pre-war cost may be appreciated by looking at figures compiled by the United States ...

    Article : 96 words
  19. SORRY HE SPOKE.

    Mr. Smith sat contentedly in an easy chair, perusing the daily paper. After a while he laid it down and said to his spouse: ...

    Article : 179 words
  20. WHICH DOGS BITE MOST?

    People are bitten by Alsatians more frequently than by dogs of any other breed, deciares Dr. Robert Olesen, of the United States Public Health ...

    Article : 161 words
  21. OLD MAN EARTH.

    Instead of being a mere infant of 1500 million years, as science has long believed it to be, the earth, Professor F. A. Panneth now tells us, has existed ...

    Article : 145 words
  22. Meaning.

    "There is a man of means. "Oh?" "Yes, if ever there was a man who means to do this, that, and the other, ...

    Article : 32 words
  23. A DIFFICULT TASK.

    A clergyman was giving a short homily to the bride and bridegroom. "It is your duty to follow your husband wherever he may go, and to ...

    Article : 81 words
  24. Both Lucky.

    Oh, look, John, that pearl necklace is the very thing I've been wanting—and the shop's closed, and we're leaving town this evening. Isn't that just ...

    Article : 65 words
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