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  2. MAKING A GOOD SHOW.

    I had always a greater regard for my uncle George than for any of my relatives. The reason of this was, doubtless, that he was more ...

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  3. AMUSING INCIDENTS.

    A company of gentlemen were being shown over a large Midland manufacturing establishment, and in the company there was an outspoken and ...

    Article : 113 words
  4. JENNER AND VACCINATION

    Edward Jenner, immortalised as the one who introduced vaccination as a preventive of smallpox, was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, in the year ...

    Article : 488 words
  5. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

    Henry was a brave fellow. Henry had said so himself time out of mind, and who should know better than Henry. Tilly was quite convinced ...

    Article : 1,334 words
  6. STRIKES.

    Strikes are quite proper, but mind you strike right; Strike at sour vices at once with your might ...

    Article : 151 words
  7. ABOU BEN ADHEM.

    Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)Awoke one morning from a deep dream of peace. ...

    Article : 157 words
  8. JUST AN AVERAGE SORT OF MAN.

    There are wonderful machines in the world, but nobody has ever built a machine half as interesting as the ordinary, everyday sort of man. He ...

    Article : 1,001 words
  9. Willing to Oblige.

    Generally speaking, a waiter's life is not a particularly happy one, and Mr. Browne has found it very difficult to please some of his customers. A ...

    Article : 101 words
  10. MORE HASTE—LESS SPEED.

    There is a time to work and a time to rest; a time to plan and a time to relax. On the journey of life, rest ...

    Article : 144 words
  11. PUBLIC DINNERS.

    To some sensitive people eating seems a gross and unpoetic action. Nevertheless food stands for much besides physical sustenance. ...

    Article : 122 words
  12. RHYMING RECIPE FOR SALAD-DRESSING.

    To make this condiment your poet begs The pounded yellow of two hard-boiled eggs ...

    Article : 157 words
  13. Got Even With Him.

    At Scotch weddings some years ago it used to be the custom to batter the hat of the bridegroom when he was leaving the house to depart for his ...

    Article : 185 words
  14. YOUR HAIR AND YOUR HAT.

    Dealing with the question of baldness, a specialist stated that it was due mainly to unhealthy forms of head covering. ...

    Article : 139 words
  15. BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE.

    We owe to Scott's deformity more than is common remembered. Had he come to manhood sound in limb, the world, in all likelihood, would ...

    Article : 177 words
  16. Sauce for the Goose.

    The appearance of a foreigner in a tram-car seemed to arouse the curiosity of a burly navvy, who presently leaned over and asked ...

    Article : 94 words
  17. CONCERNING DIAMONDS.

    There is something singularly fascinating about a diamond. Its perfect clearness, the number of colors that lurk in it, and that are brought out ...

    Article : 338 words
  18. THE MEANING OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

    Did you ever ask yourself the meaning of the term domestic economy? Most likely you never did. Notwithstanding the growing popularity of ...

    Article : 213 words
  19. LIFE'S VOYAGE.

    Two ships sail over the harbour bar. With the flush of the morning breeze. And both are bound for a haven, far ...

    Article : 232 words
  20. He Didn't Know What To Do.

    "I have come to ask your advice and assistance, old man," said young Johnston, as he dropped into Watson's smoking-room the other night. "You ...

    Article : 158 words
  21. WHICH?

    Which are the hands we love the best—Those that are folded between our own ...

    Article : 132 words
  22. Thought for the Future.

    A gambler borrowed a sum of money from a money-lender, and, the bill falling due, he called upon his creditor and told him he could not pay just ...

    Article : 203 words
  23. DICK AND HIS "DEN."

    The following is a short story, with the merest suggestion of a moral for mothers:—"Jack's getting as grumpy as a bear. ...

    Article : 318 words
  24. Statistics to the Rescue.

    "Father," said a London girl recently, "you are aware that Mr. Tythenot has been paying me his attentions for the last year ...

    Article : 335 words
  25. A STORY OF AN ENGAGEMENT RING.

    "When I was a young man," said Bodkins, "I was employed in a large house in the city, and fell in love with a young woman to whom I became ...

    Article : 203 words
  26. MORAL TRIUMPHS.

    In floors or pavements upon which some celebrated incident has been enacted we often find small brass tablets let into the wood or stone, stating ...

    Article : 351 words
  27. BE CHEERFUL.

    The cheerful man is pre-eminently a useful man. The cheerful man sees that everywhere the good outbalances the bad ...

    Article : 135 words
  28. Not What He Expected.

    A certain busy merchant, almost worried to death by the persistent attention of a local life assurance agent, suddenly wheeled round in his chair ...

    Article : 169 words
  29. Isn't This So?

    Five or six men were recently chatting in a village inn, when one of them said to the others: "I say, I bets ye dinners all round ...

    Article : 207 words
  30. THE DISCOVERY OF COFFEE.

    Coffee was discovered in 1285 by a dervish named Hadji Omar, a native of the town of Mocha. One day when he was lost in an ...

    Article : 207 words
  31. IN CONDENSED FORM.

    A gentleman, who, from a very lowly beginning, has made for himself a place in the commercial world, recently gave the following advice to ...

    Article : 160 words
  32. No Money Returned.

    Mr. Nix bought a dog recently. It looked a very nice dog; about a dog and a half long, and half a dog high; the sort of dog that might come in ...

    Article : 163 words
  33. Jones's Scheme for New-Laid Eggs.

    "I say," said Jones the other day. "I've got a scheme that will make me independently rich, if I succeed in perfecting it. ...

    Article : 107 words
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