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  2. After the Holidays

    So many people begin to pull long faces as soon as the end of the holidays are in sight, and start grumbling and growling because they feel it has ...

    Article : 649 words
  3. It's Good to Grow Old

    When one gets well into the forties, it is time to start thinking about growing old. Naturally an individual of forty-seven, forty-eight, or forty-nine ...

    Article : 315 words
  4. Self-Centred Bores

    Don't you dislike those people who are always talking about themselves and their own misfortunes? They are really priceless bores. ...

    Article : 616 words
  5. Beware! Beware!

    The most unpopular woman at the present moment is the martyr. She is so obviously a martyr. Bravely she looks through streaming eyes and ...

    Article : 419 words
  6. The Greatest Moment

    I had just returned to the noise and turmoil of the city after a delightful holiday of a month's duration. From my childhood it had been my ...

    Article : 1,005 words
  7. They Called Wool Cotton Once

    Very few of the millions of Lancashire folk who get their living from cotton are aware of how it came to get that name. Yet the word cotton ...

    Article : 244 words
  8. Girls About to Marry a Farmer

    It wouldn't be everyone's choice. Yet farmers don't seem to have much difficulty in finding wives and in building up a happy family life. Why? ...

    Article : 608 words
  9. THE LONG AGO.

    Oh! a wonderful stream is the river of Time, As it runs through the realm of tears, ...

    Article : 218 words
  10. A HINT TO PARENTS.

    Parents are fond of presenting to their children large ideas, of encouraging them to high endeavors, of putting before them fine models; and this ...

    Article : 173 words
  11. SELECTED RECIPES.

    Rainbow Pudding.—Ingredients: ¼ lb. butter, ½ cup sugar, 3 eggs. 1 cup self-raising flour, 1 dessertspoon cocoa, good ½ cup milk. ...

    Article : 400 words
  12. DRASTIC MEASURES.

    In China thousands of people still indulge in the opium habit Recently drastic Government action has been taken to deal with this problem. ...

    Article : 180 words
  13. Independent.

    Mrs. Murphy: "I 'ear yer ole man's give up that job as hon. treasurer to th' club. 'As 'e fell out with 'em or sum mat?" ...

    Article : 45 words
  14. Vivid Remembrance.

    A farm girl was milking a cow when a bull tore across the meadow towards her. The girl did not stir, but continued milking. Observers who had ...

    Article : 249 words
  15. LAID UP IN LAVENDER.

    In a Norfolk village, the first lavender harvest was gathered this year from the largest field of cultivated lavender in the world. A new industry ...

    Article : 199 words
  16. LETTUCE SHOULD BE PULLED, NOT CUT.

    Perhaps you have noticed that when you break a lettuce leaf or cut a lettuce head, a milk-white juice - flows cut of the cut part. To the technical ...

    Article : 130 words
  17. Motive.

    "You say you came to the city to look for work. I put it to you, there was another, a stronger motive that brought you all that distance." ...

    Article : 47 words
  18. ANOTHER BELIEF SHATTERED.

    The belief that a drowning person rises to the surface three times before dying is very widely held. Even Shakespeare apparently accepted it (Twelfth ...

    Article : 93 words
  19. Unprepared.

    The driving instructor was giving his pupil final hints before he took his car out alone for the first time after obtaining his licence. ...

    Article : 232 words
  20. Right First Time.

    Having attended a lecture on fathered aft lie began to interest himself in the welfare of the children, and prepared for the new deal. ...

    Article : 59 words
  21. He's Doing Time.

    "I was told that the best brains of the country were engaged in conducting my defence," sniffed Twister. "True," said his solicitor ...

    Article : 144 words
  22. Worse and Worse.

    "What," said the lecturer, "will unman a youth more; what will destroy his ambition quicker, than the awful calamity of being thrown over by the ...

    Article : 135 words
  23. Rushed.

    Husband: "Who was that you were talking to for over an hour at the gate?" Wife: "That was Mrs. Smith. She ...

    Article : 107 words
  24. The Gladiator's Farewell!

    "Was your bachelor party a success?" "Rather. We had to postpone the wedding for three days!" ...

    Article : 97 words
  25. Accommodating.

    The local police-court was crowded, for both the girl and the man charged with kissing her against her will were well known in the district. ...

    Article : 114 words
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