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  2. PERSONALITIES.

    'A little, delicate, dark-haired woman, with refined features, rosebud mouth, a nose piquantly retrousse, and clear blue confiding eyes'. ...

    Article : 174 words
  3. POETRY.

    Down in the orchard, where the leaves Play hid and seek all day I crossed the web the shadow weaves, And came where Doris lay. ...

    Article : 73 words
  4. A WRINKLE ABOUT BOOKS.

    The sixpenny editions of good books now being issued are quite worth buying if you cannot afford more expensive editions. lores sixpenny books by the ...

    Article : 75 words
  5. TO CLEAN LACE.

    If you have any fragile old lace, don't send it away to be Cleaned. Instead, buy some calcined magnesia, and sprinkle it thickly on both sides of the lace. Then ...

    Article : 86 words
  6. WHEN WE GROW OLD.

    Whop we grow old, dear love, and from my eyes The light-and brilliance of my hot youth dies. ...

    Article : 206 words
  7. WHEN THE QUEEN BORROWED MONEY.

    A pretty story respecting the Queen's first visit to Bristol, 69 years ago, is told on apparently good' authority. With her mother she entered a china shop in High ...

    Article : 134 words
  8. BINDING BOOKS.

    It is quite possible to bind your books at home very cheaply if you do not mind talking a little trouble. Cat two pieces of cardboard slightly larger than the book ...

    Article : 186 words
  9. SKETOHER.

    A centenarian burglar is undoubtedly a marvel even in these days of new and startling developments, yet such was the age confessed to by a silver-haired ...

    Article : 442 words
  10. RHODES AND THE 'LINER.'

    Your recent reference to the Colossus of the Cape, reminds me of an incident I can bear witness to, which illustrates a trait Mr. Rhodes shades with most men who ...

    Article : 246 words
  11. ENGLISH LETTER.

    Instead of the puff or the flounce being at the upper part of the sleeve, it commences from the elbow, and descends to the wrist, or, if it be a flounce, still lower. ...

    Article : 759 words
  12. NOVEL.

    'Mamie Rivers sang a solo Rescue the perishing. Who is going to do it? Beyond giving a pittance, not a woman in that fashionable church. How sweetly ...

    Article : 3,081 words
  13. SCIENCE.

    Coal-ashes are generally considered worthless; yet a rag dipped in paraffin and then coal-ashes will clean steel fireirons beautifully. Also they can be mixed ...

    Article : 311 words
  14. MASTER OF THE OCCASION.

    General Gorden was a man who knew how to use the decisive moment, and resort, if necessary, to the most extreme measures in order to insure a necessary ...

    Article : 385 words
  15. CARE OF THE HAIR.

    Every woman should have at least six combs. Both Mdme. Patti and Mrs. Langtry, two of the wort fastidious women, have that number. The combs ...

    Article : 347 words
  16. MASTERS RUINED BY THEIR MEN.

    'In one important branch of our business,' remarked a big manufacturer during an office chat. we employ a particular process that gives us almost a monopoly ...

    Article : 902 words
  17. BEETHOVEN SAT IN THE ROAD.

    Beethoven was never known to be without notepaper and pencil, and whenever an idea struck him he put it at once on paper, being by no means choice about ...

    Article : 115 words
  18. SCHOOL FOR COOKS.

    The problem of getting good cooks is hourly becoming a very serious one, as the demand is very much larger than the supply, so that a new scheme started in ...

    Article : 151 words
  19. TO REMOVE GREASE STAINS.

    Mix together one ounce of powdered French chalk and five ounces of powdered pipeclay; make this into a paste by gradually adding two ounces of spirits of ...

    Article : 92 words
  20. HUMOUR.

    Mamma: 'Johnny, I fear you were not at school yesterday. Johnny: 'H'm! I know the teacher told you. A woman can never keep a ...

    Article : 429 words
  21. LADIES' COLUMN.

    If the paper in your bedroom is shabby, and you cannot afford to have it done up, strip it off the walls, fill up cracks and smooth over rough places with putty, ...

    Article : 131 words
  22. BUTTONHOLES.

    When making buttonholes always run the buttonhole-twist all round the [?] about one-sixteenth of an inch from the edge before beginning the actual ...

    Article : 63 words
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