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  2. LATEST FASHION.

    "Everylady's Journal" Pattern No 189, from "Blouse Outfit," No. 32. Single patterns, 3d. each, post free, as described below. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 23 words
  3. MISUSE OF LIGHT.

    That the status of artificial lighting to-day is both "critical and unsatisfactory" is asserted by F. Laurent Godinez in a volume entitled "The Lighting Book." We quote ...

    Article : 874 words
  4. LINK BY LINK; OR THE CHAIN OF EVIDENCE.

    "Who dares accuse me?" A moment of solemn silence fell upon all of us, as this indignant demand on the part of the young man ho suddenly accused ...

    Article : 1,869 words
  5. POVERTY TO PEERAGE.

    Lord Strathcona's career is one of the last half-century's greatest stories of empirebuilding. When he came to Canada from his native Scotland at the age of 17, he was ...

    Article : 783 words
  6. A THOUGHT FOR WASHING DAY.

    The clothes-line is a rosary Of household help and care; Each little saint the mother loves Is represented there. ...

    Article : 137 words
  7. PATTERN FOR NEW BULGARIAN BLOUSE.

    A very up-to-date style of Bulgarian blouse, in black and white check material, with white cloth cuffs and collar, and white bone buttons. It looks well, also, in brown, with collar, cuffs ...

    Article : 178 words
  8. LAY OF THE LAMENTING LOSER.

    Broke! broke! broke! 'Twere just as well thrown in the sea, For the shekels I lost on the races last week Will never come back to me. ...

    Article : 33 words
  9. HE HAD NO EAR POR MUSIC.

    In a railway car. Little Dog (just released from a basket): "Wow, wow, wow!" His Mistress: "Oh, oh, oh, oh! For shame, ...

    Article : 84 words
  10. FRESH AIR FUND.

    The usual annual appeal of Mr. C. Arthur Pearson for the children of the slums of Britain is made in the following words:—Will you once more allow me to make an ...

    Article : 1,053 words
  11. Best He Could Afford.

    Old Gent: "Little boy. I am grieved see you smoking a cigarette." Willie Korff: "What are yer givin' us; yer don't s'pose a gent wid my allowance can sport ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  12. HIS PEDIGREE.

    A one-legged orator, named Jones, who was pretty successful in bantering an Irishman, was asked by the latter "how he had come to lose his leg?" "Well," said Jones, "on examining my ...

    Article : 91 words
  13. A WAY OUT.

    "War and Peace" for January opens with a strong article warmly advocating the proposal that armaments should be singled out as the one form of expenditure to be paid ...

    Article : 401 words
  14. WHAT IS A WIFE.

    The pretty school teacher, for a little divertisement, had asked her class for the best definition of "wife," and the boy in the corner had promptly responded, "A rib." ...

    Article : 295 words
  15. IS THE SUN WASTING?

    Not long ago astronomers were worrying because the sun was shrinking, owing to its loss of heat. The process is too slow to be visible, but most students of the subject ...

    Article : 430 words
  16. CHARLES II. AND THE ENGLISH CLIMATE.

    Writing in the "Pall Mall Magazine," Hilaire Belloc has occasion to record and comment on an interesting but little known saying of Charles II.: "The English people," he writes, "adored him—but he had little ...

    Article : 217 words
  17. UNAPPRECIATED APOLOGY.

    Customer (to head waiter).: "Here, sir, this clumsy fellow has spilled over half of my cup of tea down my back." Head Waiter (to clumsy waiter, sternly): "Being ...

    Article : 40 words
  18. LONDON'S TOWN CLERK.

    Sir Laurence Gomme, the Clerk of the London Countly Council, has resigned. It is not expected that his retirement will take effect for two or three months. "Sir Laurence Gomme's active association with London ...

    Article : 240 words
  19. WIGS ON THE GREEN.

    There were wigs on the green at the Opera Comique a day or two ago (says the Paris correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph"), and quite appropriately over a green wig. The curtain was about to rise on the first ...

    Article : 222 words
  20. WANTED SOMETHING LESS SOLID.

    Philanthropist: "Won't you have a sandwich, my good man?" Weary William: "No; do doctor tells me I must take somethin' that gurgles." ...

    Article : 26 words
  21. GREATLY SHOCKED

    She: "Do yon know 'I stood on the bridge at midnight?'" He: "Gwacious! You don't say so." ...

    Article : 23 words
  22. TO BUSINESS IN FLYING BOAT.

    Every month Mr. Glenn Curtiss's flying boats come into more general use among wealthy amateurs of sport in the United States. Mr. Harold M'Cormick, son-inlaw of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, daily travels in a ...

    Article : 84 words
  23. SHE COULDN'T HELP IT.

    The girl with a 6ft sweetheart said she wouldn't tell a story, but she couldn't help but 'd[?]aw a long beau." ...

    Article : 26 words
  24. Advertising

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    Advertising : 53 words
  25. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.

    She (looking at the statuary): "And he[?] is little Cupid; how cold he looks!" He: "Yes; get on to his quiver." ...

    Article : 29 words
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