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  2. The Truth About Reading in Bed

    The excuse usually given for the bad habit of reading in bed is that the reader can't sleep immediately he or she goes to bed, and simply uses a ...

    Article : 576 words
  3. As Others See Us

    If we could, now and again, just see ourselves as others see us, it would be a wholesome medicine. Also a surprising one, which would probably ...

    Article : 758 words
  4. The Victoria Cross

    Mrs. Carden smiled sympathetically and tenderly at her only daughter. She knew only too well the effort it was to the girl to he bright and cheerful. ...

    Article : 1,462 words
  5. Girl Sees After 25 Years

    Madge Brewer, of Calne, Scotland, who was born blind 25 years ago, has gained her sight. In her dream-world of darkness she had imagined the ...

    Article : 194 words
  6. The Value of Soup

    "Thank goodness for soup!" a friend remarked as we hurried homewards at noon one bitterly cold day. "There's nothing heats me up like it, and I go ...

    Article : 899 words
  7. Occupations and Health

    We hear so much of trades which demand a dreadful toll on human life that it should be comforting to learn there are trades which have the ...

    Article : 265 words
  8. ASKING FOR IT.

    At a time when a well-known English actor was making a big hit in town, an equally well-known American actor happened to be passing the ...

    Article : 216 words
  9. "INVISIBLE MAN" RIDDLE.

    A man who cannot be photographed is puzzling the police at Ostrava, in Moravia. After arresting Ivan Slag, a Russian, for alleged suspicious ...

    Article : 137 words
  10. WHAT IS HOME?

    A world of strife shut out, a world of love shut in—The place where the small are great and the great are small— ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. Putting Her Right!

    The city man entered his office and found the new lady clerk vigorously powdering and making-up with various pastes, powders, lipstick, etc. ...

    Article : 45 words
  12. Cat to Cat.

    Mrs. Backbite and her friend were discussing people and things over afternoon tea. Their conversation turned at last to the woman who had ...

    Article : 353 words
  13. ARE YOU AMBITIOUS?

    Every energetic person desires to get on. If our work in the world is to amount to anything, we must try to make it more excellent every day, ...

    Article : 129 words
  14. UTOPIA—PERHAPS.

    Bois Blanc Island, in the Straits of Mackinac, might be regarded as a Utopia for everyone except newspaper men, for it holds the distinction of ...

    Article : 82 words
  15. MIDGET'S 6FT. IDEAL.

    A midget 30 inches high has married her "ideal man"—a six-foot circus cowboy. "It was love at first sight," declared ...

    Article : 50 words
  16. The Reason.

    Mrs. Miggs: "Why did you leave your last place?" New Cook: "I couldn't stand the terrible way the lady of the house and ...

    Article : 239 words
  17. Resolution.

    "What's the matter with you?" "My girl and I had words last night. I told her I was going away for ever, and she said I could go ahead." ...

    Article : 52 words
  18. "Puir James!"

    It is told of Sir J. M. Barrie, the famous playwright and novelist, that as a boy he was the despair of his teachers; in fact, he was marked ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. Doubly Answered.

    Policeman, having slipped on some orange peel: "I'd like to know who dropped that orange peel on the path." Bertie: "Give me a penny, and I'll ...

    Article : 195 words
  20. Nothing Doing.

    A young man went to Australia against his father's wishes. In a letter home he wrote: "I have bought a car. First feather in my cap." ...

    Article : 190 words
  21. Reason.

    A business man went to his club every afternoon and ordered a glass of whisky, which he drank with closed eyes. This eccentricity had been ...

    Article : 163 words
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