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  2. Trouble Brewing

    He was a large jovial sort of man, and wore a muffler that would have been received with cheers in a carnival procession. But he was not good ...

    Article : 653 words
  3. Romance of Electricity

    Little does the man or woman switching on an electric light realise that behind that simple action lies one of the most romantic stories in ...

    Article : 406 words
  4. A Palace of Old Japan

    For over a thousand years Kyoto was the capital of Japan, and nowhere else in the country are there to be found so many palaces and temples ...

    Article : 328 words
  5. [An Interesting Adventure.] An Old Lady's Hat

    "Do you know," asked Jimmy Frise, "who are the happiest people in the world to-day?" "The Eskimos?' I ventured. ...

    Article : 2,910 words
  6. Finding a Job

    There seemed absolutely no hope for John Rinslip. Unemployed for months, penniless, and without a home, he thought several times of suicide, but ...

    Article : 439 words
  7. HOW IT HAPPENS.

    "I wonder how it happens," she remarked to me one day, "That some find happiness at home and others drift away?" ...

    Article : 272 words
  8. STRIKING!

    "There's one thing I can never understand about Mrs. Brown," said the lady at No. 20 thoughtfully. "She is always having fish; they ...

    Article : 122 words
  9. THEY WENT ON KISSING.

    Mr. Frank Borzage, director of a recent Hollywood film, Shipamets For Ever, hired fifty young men and fifty girls to play midshipmen and their ...

    Article : 125 words
  10. Sure Proof.

    The Hayes were discussing their neighbors. "Does Freeman own his house, or does he rent it?" she asked. ...

    Article : 54 words
  11. WORDS OF WISDOM.

    Good intentions should make good deeds—not an apology for bad ones. Some cynics are men of wide experience; others merely suffer from ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. THE OLD 'UNS.

    The old 'uns are going it! A seventy-one-year-old grandmother has just got back from a 600-miles cycling tour in the north of England. ...

    Article : 96 words
  13. Those Dear Girls.

    "I can't see why it is that some men go into raptures over a silly woman," said a fair girl to her chum. "Who's been making love to you ...

    Article : 37 words
  14. AN INNOCENT RUSTIC.

    An eminent judge once addressed a prisoner in a smock-frock in the following words: "Prisoner at the bar, your counsel thinks you innocent; the ...

    Article : 126 words
  15. Good Advice.

    Colonel (to brother officer, at regimental dinner): "Do me a favor, old boy. When I make my speech I want you to start the laughter and ...

    Article : 77 words
  16. Explaining.

    Two women were talking in a tramcar. "My sister and me," said one, "we ain't no more alike than if we wasn't ...

    Article : 202 words
  17. Ocular Demonstration.

    The temporary guide in the Natural History Museum had got slightly muddled in his remarks, and when he shepherded the party to the platform ...

    Article : 186 words
  18. Reason Enough.

    An extremely wealthy man has occasion frequently to make use of taxis, and he always gives the chaffeurs the legal fare and no more. Once, when ...

    Article : 149 words
  19. Redeeming Feature.

    Donovan was a good husband and a good father and had taken care of his family—at times. He was well liked in his neighborhood, but occasionally he ...

    Article : 146 words
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