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  2. WHY FAT KINGS WERE 80 POPULAR.

    There was for generations a custom in India of weighing the king, or ruler, in gold, and giving that gold to the poor. The custom prevails to-day in ...

    Article : 341 words
  3. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    Stand up against the side of the room with one side of your body directly up against the wall and your arms held at your side. Then bring your ...

    Article : 103 words
  4. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

    The inhabitants of South America oat serpents, lizards, and centipedes. The Bank of England suspended cash payments twice—once in 1696, and ...

    Article : 765 words
  5. RANDOM READINGS.

    The Babu, or native Indian, is educated upon English lines, in the schools of India, and often obtains employment as a clerk, hotel ...

    Article : 168 words
  6. LIGHTNING CURES.

    There is on old saying to the effect that "faith will either kill or cure," and it would seem to apply to lightning also. Certainly it is a remedy ...

    Article : 526 words
  7. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    "Is your son out of danger yet?" "No; the doctor is going to make three or four more visits." Willis: "Brown says he has a horse ...

    Article : 913 words
  8. COLLAR THAT KEEPS FOLK FROM SNORING.

    Snoring is a nuisance oven to those who indulge in this habit. When anyone snores his mouth is usually open, his tongue and cheeks become dry, the ...

    Article : 362 words
  9. IT WAS A GUMBOIL.

    He was one of the wisest and kindest of teachers, but now and then his watchfulness made him suspicious. In the class the other day his eye fell ...

    Article : 77 words
  10. WITHOUT "PADDING."

    The teacher demanded that the pupils all write for their daily exercise a brief account of a cricket match. One boy sat through the period ...

    Article : 118 words
  11. MAXIMS IN DEALING WITH WOMEN.

    Never say to your wife, "Before I was married I used to do this and do that." She will resent it. Before you were married is a long period in ...

    Article : 329 words
  12. LITTLE ITALIANS.

    Italian children are very much spoilt, and are allowed to do just as they like, which is not good for any of us. In Sicily it is not unusual for ...

    Article : 220 words
  13. APPROPRIATE SIGN.

    Dosem, an old village quack, found the calls and fees did not come fast enough to please him, so he added an apothecary's shop to his business ...

    Article : 241 words
  14. RUBBER-BAND-CHANGE TRICK.

    The trick of changing a rubber band from the first and second fingers to the third and fourth, if done quickly, con be performed without detection by any ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 171 words
  15. ANCIENT ORIGIN OF THE HARP.

    The history of the piano counts as a day compared with the harp. We have authentic records that as early as 1800 B.C., the first lyre was evolved ...

    Article : 407 words
  16. AFTER THE REFUND.

    Time, 3 a.m. A bell was ringing furiously. But, tired and lazy though he felt, he could not ignore the summons of that clarion call. ...

    Article : 225 words
  17. JESSIE'S HOLIDAY.

    The door closed and a silence fell on the children. Nine little girls bent close over their sewing, and their faces were troubled. Gladys at last ...

    Article : 407 words
  18. EFFECTIVE BUT EXPENSIVE.

    Mrs. Brown at last had found a cook —a really first-rate cook, but one who, unfortunately, knew nothing about the manipulation of a gas-stove. ...

    Article : 171 words
  19. LOVE'S LANGUAGE.

    Horace was a devout but timid lover. So timid was be that, though, the signs were favorable, he had never yet summoned up sufficient spirit to ask his ...

    Article : 173 words
  20. HIS SUGGESTION.

    By the restraurant payoesk stood the manager, greeting each out-going and in-coming guest with a seraphic, managerial smile. ...

    Article : 153 words
  21. THE ZUYDER ZEE.

    The Zuyder Zee, or Southern Sea, was formerly a lake surrounded by fens and marshes, its present extent being chiefly the result of floods which ...

    Article : 135 words
  22. TWERE BETTER THUS.

    In the soft firelight the boarding-house sitting-room looked almost cosy and attractive. The warmth and comfort thawed the heart of the oldest ...

    Article : 122 words
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