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  2. POETRY.

    Perhaps, when all is said and done, Content may lie in this: to know That one friend held you as a sun. To cheer and warm a heart, and throw ...

    Article : 104 words
  3. LADIES' COLUMN.

    From a friend in Paris, the news comes that the latest mode for wearing hats is low down over the face and that the crowns are considerably narrower than ...

    Article : 53 words
  4. PERSONALITIES.

    We have heard Much of Mrs. Kruger's homeliness and narrowmindedness, but there is evidently another side of her character which is loss well known. In ...

    Article : 89 words
  5. SHALL WE WEAR IT?

    Fringe is perhaps slightly wavering on its pedestal of popularity, the reason probably being that in cheap imitations it is thin and poor-looking, so that those ...

    Article : 113 words
  6. SKETCHES.

    There are several kinds of shells in use now, and of these the the most important perhaps are the Shrapnel and the Lyddite. The former of these is the one really ...

    Article : 960 words
  7. WHEN YOU WRITE TO THE QUEEN.

    The paper which you use must be thick and white, and the letter must be put into an envelope large enough to contain it without folding. A letter which has been ...

    Article : 91 words
  8. BETWEEN THE LINES.

    'The past can not be changed.' No, dear. But may be misinterpreted. How many life-wrongs righted were If this dim page aright we read! ...

    Article : 95 words
  9. TOILET HINTS.

    Never use hard water for washing; if you cannot procure naturally soft water, soften the hard by the addition of a fow drops of ammonia or a little borax. ...

    Article : 127 words
  10. LARGE FAMILIES.

    There was an old lady who lived at Chester, and died recently at the respectable Age of eighty-seven, whose proud boast it was that she had been the mother ...

    Article : 111 words
  11. NOVEL.

    'Of course he is simply worthless,' said the banker. ' Yes, I'm afraid so. Even the Salvation Army hasn't caught bim yet. By the ...

    Article : 3,516 words
  12. HUMOUR.

    Hawkins: 'Terrible thing about Spindle, wasn't it? The poor fellow didn't torn up at his own wedding.' Mrs Hawkins: 'Gracious! What was ...

    Article : 53 words
  13. THE QUEEN AND HER OLD COACHMAN.

    It is characteristic of the kind thought-fulness of tho Queen that, at a time when she must be greatly occupied with the affairs of war, she found time to drive over ...

    Article : 134 words
  14. ENGLISH LETTER.

    This is Fashion's latest cry, and heard on all sides. In the very far past dressmakers occasionally requisitioned so many as a ...

    Article : 960 words
  15. THE CHEERFUL IDIOT.

    'It must have been a very tenders hearted butcher who killed this lamb,' said the Cheerful Idiot, pausing in the sawing of his chop. ...

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  16. EASILY ENOUGH.

    ' Mr. Gibbous,' raid the teacher of the class in rhetoric,' point out the absurdity in this figure of speech.' At this time the Emperor Frederick hatched out a scheme,' ...

    Article : 79 words
  17. UNCROWNED MONARCHS.

    It may be a matter of interest to some of my readers to hear that such an autocratic ruler as the Kaiser has never been crowned, and that that article of regal ...

    Article : 89 words
  18. A MANUSCRIPT SERMON.

    A Scotch divine once took into the pulpit a sermon without observing that the first leaf or two were so worn and eaten away that he could not decipher or announce ...

    Article : 86 words
  19. THE ABSENT-MINDED POET.

    Fur pure absent-mindedness it is doubtful whether anyone ever excelled William Bowles, the minor poet for whom Coleridge has so great an admiration. It was he ...

    Article : 172 words
  20. THE SET.

    A little boy of five went with his mother to make a call. The lady on whom they called, who was very fond of children, told him she ...

    Article : 134 words
  21. THE GROCER WAS FLOORED.

    She was newly-married, and did not know a little bit about housekeeping, and she was giving her first week's order. It was a crusher, but the grocer was a clever ...

    Article : 340 words
  22. TALMA.

    It is only two months ago that Talma stepped on to the stage at Oxford to make her fortune as the Queen of Coins. With the simple aid of her own deft fingers and ...

    Article : 537 words
  23. SOME SINGULAR FINDS IN BREAD.

    A short time since a touring cyclist was partaking of a frugal lunch of bread and cheese at a village inn, when ho made a strange discovery. In cutting the large ...

    Article : 636 words
  24. 'I NOT ACCEPT.'

    A Frenchman on a visit to England went to an English acquaintance and said to him : ' What does a polar bear do ' The other answered: 'What does a ...

    Article : 134 words
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