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  2. NEW SERIES OF STORIES.

    "I was with Captain Hoskins," said the third mate, "in Nagasaki Harbour, getting a cargo of coal on board for Saigon, when Peter Minchin came on board. He ...

    Article : 2,072 words
  3. THE SKETCHER.

    "I understood from you that you had no other lodgers," said Miss Fowler severely. "Oh, I don't count them!" smiled the ...

    Article : 1,283 words
  4. VARIOUS VERSES.

    The dawn is like a rose that blooms Above the garden wall, It bourgeons through a thousand glooms, Then opens its heart to all. ...

    Article : 193 words
  5. FIRESIDE FANCIES.

    Silk designers of Japan look to the Mikado for suggestions for new patterns, and he does not disappoint them. Each year he selects the subject for the New Year ...

    Article : 145 words
  6. THE JESTER.

    "It's funny that you should be so tall. Your brother, the artist, is short, isn't he?" He (absently): "Yes, usually." The Father: "Here, sir, how is it I ...

    Article : 751 words
  7. SPRAY.

    A minister of a small country church suddenly recollected, just previous to the commencement of his sermon the other Sunday, that he had come away and ...

    Article : 1,280 words
  8. REST WHILE WORKING.

    A lady doctor expressed the strong opinion that, much of the nervous irritability and many of the aches and pains to which housewives are subject arise from their ...

    Article : 143 words
  9. THE RESURRECTION.

    Behold the tomb wherein he lay; the guarding stone is rolled away, The silent tenant gone. An angel clad in spotless white dispels ...

    Article : 297 words
  10. NOW AND YEARS AGO.

    It doesn't do any good to compile statistics on marriage, write articles on why women do not marry, or rail at women for going put into the world to earn a ...

    Article : 133 words
  11. ARE YOUR DAUGHTERS FREE?

    Nowhere in the world do women enjoy the same unrestricted freedom than they do in England, while the precautions taken to keep young ladies a respectful distance ...

    Article : 121 words
  12. BREATHING AND BEAUTY.

    No woman can have bright eyes, a beautiful skin, or an elastic step if she does not supply her lungs with oxygen. She can do this by deep breathing. ...

    Article : 123 words
  13. IN THE BILLIARD-ROOM.

    A good story, is told of Mr. Barlow's experience several years ago with some Democratic friends who had gone to his summer-house at Glen Cove, on Long ...

    Article : 263 words
  14. GEORGE GROSSMITH, JUNIOR.

    A gentleman sent his son to the late Mr. Grossmith, the popular actor, to arrange time and terms for an evening entertainment. Just before taking leave ...

    Article : 289 words
  15. FIRST LOVE.

    People who marry while very young are apt to find out when it is too late that they have made the greatest mistake in their lives, and that, though it may seem ...

    Article : 134 words
  16. WHEN THE HAIR SAYS: HUSBAND WANTED.

    Hairdressing is an elaborate study in Japan, says a well-known traveller, where the style of the coiffure generally indicates the position and age of the lady. Thus ...

    Article : 144 words
  17. AT A VILLAGE CRICKET MATCH.

    Many umpires even to-day in village cricket are too apt to comment on the game instead of waiting for appeals. Old Tom Stedman, now dead, was a crotchety ...

    Article : 82 words
  18. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

    At Bath once, the great Duke of Wellington came across an old soldier friend long lost sight of. To the kindly query whether he, the Duke of Wellington, ...

    Article : 184 words
  19. WILD BOAR HUNTING IN NORTHERN INDIA.

    In his book, "Forty-one Years in India," Lord Roberts tells an excellent story of the Maharaja Sir Pertap Sing, of Jodhpur, showing that the ancient valour of the ...

    Article : 283 words
  20. LORD CROMER'S WORK IN EGYPT.

    Mr. Harold Spender in the "Leisure Hour," in the course of an interesting character sketch of the real ruler of Egypt, Lord Cromer, draws attention to a curious ...

    Article : 361 words
  21. A DETECTIVE STORY.

    A certain inspector of Scotland Yard, who is a Kerry man, did a little piece of clever amateur detective work before he came to London. The story goes that one ...

    Article : 173 words
  22. HALF-AN-HOUR BEFORE MID, NIGHT.

    Miss Myra Kelly, the writer of East Side stories of New York life, relates this story of a gentleman's politeness to her:— "The car was entirely empty, with the ...

    Article : 117 words
  23. ANDREW KIRKALDY, THE GOLFER.

    A good story is told of Andrew Kirkaldy, the well-known golf professional. In the year 1888 a detachment of time-expired men was leaving a station in the Simla ...

    Article : 206 words
  24. FORECAST FROM SHELLS.

    The inhabitants of Southern Chili are said to foretell the weather fay means of a strange barometer. It consists of the cast-off shell of a crab. The dead shell ...

    Article : 76 words
  25. DO NOT WALK SLOWLY.

    When there is no organic weakness which is aggravated by the exertion, it is the easiest and pleasantest thing to walk right into health. Of course, there is no ...

    Article : 165 words
  26. A MATCH OF DUMAS.

    Dumas the elder was a bright man, but he often met his match. He was proud of the large sums paid him for his writings. One evening the conversation ...

    Article : 101 words
  27. DECEIVING TO THE EYE.

    Electricity is fatal to the discernment of certain colours. Yellow and pink, two totally different colours, look strangely alike by electric light. Heliotrope is also ...

    Article : 82 words
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