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  2. Hints.

    Rabbet Heels.— When a rubber heel has worn so that the screw and plate begin to click, take it off and remove the screw and plate. Then place it on ...

    Article : 733 words
  3. Good Stories.

    Mother : "Don't forget' to pack your tooth-brush, Tommy," Tommy: "Oh mother, I thought I was going away for a holiday." ...

    Article : 28 words
  4. Poetry.

    A thousand miles beyond this sunsteeped wall, SomeWhere the waves creep cool along the sand. ...

    Article : 123 words
  5. Christmas for Three.

    A small child sat curled up on a white rug enjoying the warm glow of the big log fire. Such a lsuxuridue little soul she looked in her velvet ...

    Article : 4,167 words
  6. THINGS ONE WOULD RATHER HAVE LEFT UNSAID.

    Nervous Carate (called upon for the first time in his life to preach a sermon to convicts in a prison): " My dear friends, I am so glad to see you ...

    Article : 46 words
  7. UNREASONABLE.

    " This letter's overweight, Mrs. O'Flaherty," said the village post-mistress "It's too heavy to go for a penny. You'll have to put another ...

    Article : 46 words
  8. A LOCAL HEATHEN.

    A collection for foreign missions was being taken in a wealthy church. The collector man approached a wellknown millionaire with the plate, ...

    Article : 63 words
  9. THE PHONOGRAPH.

    I am the voice of sadness i am the voice of mirth : I earry the magic messenger to the termost ends of earth ; ...

    Article : 216 words
  10. SOLVED.

    Travelling in a country train, Jones [?]tieed a boy sitling in front of him, swaying to and fro the whole time Thinking there must be something the ...

    Article : 69 words
  11. A MISUNDERSTANDING.

    A little Catholic child was being confirmed, and the bishop asked her what matrimony was. The child nervously confused the answer with ...

    Article : 59 words
  12. VICTIM NO. 101.

    Newsboy (as he runs along) : "Great Mystery! 'Undred Victims ! Piper ! Awful Mystery !" Old Gent (excitedly) "Here you are, boy, quick I" ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. THE ROAD TO ANYWHERE.

    Across the places deep and dim, And places brown and bare. It reaches to the planet's rian— The Road to Anywhere. ...

    Article : 125 words
  14. THE BOARD OF HEALTH.

    An Irishman strolling along the quays in New York Harbour came across the wooden barricade which is placed round the enclosure where ...

    Article : 84 words
  15. THE FIRST GRANDCHILD.

    "Grandmother!" called the farmer, and there came Out through the vine-wreathed porch a blushing dame, ...

    Article : 130 words
  16. IRISH!

    Pat, away for a holiday, found the weather colder than he had expected, and wrote home to his brother Terence, asking him to send on his ...

    Article : 95 words
  17. A GENTLE HINT.

    Little Tommy was playing trains, and had all the chairs in the room ranked in a long line. A visitor, whom the child did not like, came ...

    Article : 89 words
  18. BE CHEERFUL.

    There's nothing sweeter in the land, That meets with more resentment From misanthropes on every hand, Than simple, sweet contentment. ...

    Article : 116 words
  19. HE GOT HIS ANSWER.

    An old farmer was noted for boasting about the products of his farm. So one day a neighbour, thinking to take a rise out of him, sent his man ...

    Article : 98 words
  20. HOW STRANGE.

    Algy was back from the war,and of course, was showing off befour the ladies for all he was worth."Y-a-a-s, don't you know," he was saying, "I ...

    Article : 114 words
  21. A SHREWD RETORT.

    A noted politician once began to raise a moustache, and while it was still in the budding stage he was asked, at a dinner party, to take to ...

    Article : 186 words
  22. TO HIS LOST BELOVED.

    Oh, little thing, oh, wondrous thing, Why did you slip so soft away? Love touched us with his angel wing Once upon a day. ...

    Article : 279 words
  23. WHEN SISSY STARTS TO PLAY.

    Oh, there's sadness in the household, and there's gloom upon the street When Sissy starts to play on the planner. ...

    Article : 244 words
  24. ONE SWALLOW, NO CURE.

    A New York physician had a negro cook who was a chronic complainer. One day she came in groaning pain in her side and the doctor ...

    Article : 125 words
  25. IT SILENCED HIM.

    An amusing story of a baf[?] ingenuity on the part a pupil in replying to the questions of an examiner, is as follows:—"And you attend ...

    Article : 142 words
  26. LEGAL MAGIC.

    A Canadian, named Morgan, was appointed to a Government place which technically had to be occupied by a lawyer, which Mr. Morganu was not ...

    Article : 142 words
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