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  2. FOB YOUNG FOLKS.

    The sun had worked so hard all day That he was tired and went to bed: "I'll send the youngsters cut to piay, Then I shall get some peace!" he ...

    Article : 150 words
  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    "Is your purse real alligator skin?" "Is it? You ought to hear it snap." The three degrees in medical treatment: Positive, ill; comparative, pill ...

    Article : 934 words
  4. HOW TO READ IN BED.

    Everybody who enjoys the luxury of reading in bed will welcome the news that under the proper conditions you can indulge in this habit to your ...

    Article : 384 words
  5. ROMANTIC HISTORY OF NURSERY RHYMES.

    Very ancient in many cases is the origin of tho nursery rhymes which hare, delighted the children of every land. "Jack and Jill" is supposed to ...

    Article : 406 words
  6. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

    The River Thames flows at an average speed of two miles an hour. St. Paul's Cathedral, London, is insured for £300.000. ...

    Article : 759 words
  7. TEACHING HIM ECONOMY.

    "My boy," said the old man, kindly, as he poked his head through the back parlour doorway about 11 p.m., where his prospective son-in-law, Charles sat ...

    Article : 306 words
  8. RANDOM READINGS

    Many marriage customs observed at the present times are relics of the time when women were simply the chattels or slaves of their husbands. ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. A TRICK.

    Ask one of your little friends to stand with his back to the wall, and heels touching it. Then lay a coin on the ground within three feet of ...

    Article : 80 words
  10. BUSINESS COURTSHIP.

    An amusing case was once decided in a Frankfort police court. It appears that a cook, no longer quite young, was courted by a tailor somewhat ...

    Article : 219 words
  11. TRY, TRY, TRY AGAIN.

    Lily did not like learning to sew at all, because she was always pricking herself. "This needle is a bad one!" she ...

    Article : 143 words
  12. CURED HIM.

    "Yes,", said the man in the mackintosh, lighting another cigar, "it was one of the most remarkable cases I ever knew. Rheumatism twenty-five ...

    Article : 226 words
  13. BLISSFUL IGNORANCE.

    Mrs Jimson was aroused from her slumbers by Mr. Jimson springing violently out of bed. Before she could say a word he had pulled on his ...

    Article : 195 words
  14. QUEEN MARY'S JEWELS.

    On more than one occasion Queen Mary has been heard to confess that she shares Mr. Andrew Carnegie's opinion that woman are not at their ...

    Article : 537 words
  15. CHILDREN OF ITALY.

    The Italian children of the poor know very little except what they learn from "Mother Nature," as they work in the fields and vineyards or ...

    Article : 199 words
  16. MILK BOTTLES MADE OF PAPER.

    Milk bottles, made out of waxed cardboard, are being advocated as the most sanitary receptacles for the delivery of milk. Such bottles are only ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 96 words
  17. NOT A SECRETARY.

    Sam had worked on the farm for nine year, and until his master took to poultry-farming he was quire satisfied with life. ...

    Article : 146 words
  18. THE ROARING LIONESS.

    He was a lion-tamer. Yet the man who ruled the king of the forest was in turn ruled hy his wife. ...

    Article : 158 words
  19. ANTICIPATED THE EFFECT.

    A good story is told at the expense of an undergraduate at a certain university. He was attending the chemical lectures of a distinguished, if not ...

    Article : 210 words
  20. THE POLAR BEAR'S BREAKFAST.

    The white or polar bear is a hibernating animal—that is, he spends the winter in idleness, making his home in a hole which ho burrows in a snow ...

    Article : 377 words
  21. CONUNDRUMS.

    What odd number when beheaded becomes even?—Seven. What enlightens the world though dark itself?—Ink. ...

    Article : 217 words
  22. THE FUR MARKET.

    St. Louis is the largest primary fur market in the world, and it is estimated that three-fourths of all the furs trapped on the North American ...

    Article : 152 words
  23. THE CUSTOMER'S ERROR.

    "Waiter!" called a diner in a cheap restaurant. The waiter looked out of window, pretending he bad not heard. The customer had already complained ...

    Article : 106 words
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