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  2. TAKE YOURSELF CHEERFULLY.

    So many good folks take themselves so seriously—so desperately seriously! They get up in the morning in a dark brown study which gets darker and ...

    Article : 910 words
  3. OH, WHERE DID FATHER BANK?

    Most people regard a good bank as the safest place in which to leave their money. They are quite right in thinking this, provided always that they ...

    Article : 762 words
  4. POOR GIRL'S INHERITANCE OF £26,000.

    Fraulein Wardyss, a poor girl employed as a saleswoman in a boot and shoe shop in the small town of Kisujszallas, in Hungary, has just ...

    Article : 187 words
  5. LORD ROSEBERY'S BET.

    On one occasion Lord Rosebery was in a railway carriage on his way to a race meeting at Ayr. Opposite him sat a commercial traveller, who was ...

    Article : 497 words
  6. A Mid-Ocean Secret.

    To Robert Summers it seemed as though they had been drifting for weeks on their frail support, whereas it was ten or twelve hours at most ...

    Article : 2,248 words
  7. "THE OPTIMIST."

    The toiler had tears on his cheeks, His children were starving, he said; He hadn't had work for six weeks, And he heartily wished he were ...

    Article : 163 words
  8. A MARVELLOUS MEMORY.

    Antonio Magliabechi was born at Florence, October. 29, 1633. Such was the poverty of his parents that they thought themselves happy in getting ...

    Article : 412 words
  9. How They Could Remedy It.

    Years ago the congregation attending St. Paul's Cathedral were greatly disturbed at their devotion by the noise of the traffic outside. With the ...

    Article : 129 words
  10. MYSTERIOUS LOCKED ROOMS.

    Perhaps the most famous locked room in the world is at Galmis Castle, the old home of the Earls of Strathmore. In this rambling pile there is ...

    Article : 361 words
  11. An Unhappy Affair.

    A young Parisian, noted for his grace and readiness as a second in many duels, had been asked by a friend to accompany him to the ...

    Article : 96 words
  12. Couldn't Stand That.

    At a "mum sociable" the other evening all artifices, plans, subterfuges, and tricks which were resorted to by the ladies to make a young man ...

    Article : 111 words
  13. Employment for the Blind.

    An excellent system prevails in Japan in regard to the provision of employment for the blind. They are given the monopoly of a particular ...

    Article : 103 words
  14. A PERILOUS RIDE.

    A thrilling adventure and a hairbreadth escape on an Italian express train has just befallen a young Englishwoman, by name Miss A. Luker, of ...

    Article : 374 words
  15. Instrumental, All Right.

    "Have ye heard my daughter, Mona, sing lately?" asked Mr. Dugan. "Both lately and early," said Mr. Hogan. "Tis fine instrumental ...

    Article : 58 words
  16. THE LAST WORD.

    A well-known woman once observed that she considered "the greatest menace to the happiness of married life is the last word." ...

    Article : 309 words
  17. Home-made Cushion.

    "I hardly knew your father to-day," said the district visitor pleasantly to the little girl. "He's cut his beard off again. That's three times since a ...

    Article : 49 words
  18. A Correct Reading.

    "This large bump running across the back of your head means that you are inclined to be curious to the point of recklessness." ...

    Article : 54 words
  19. Ruled by Fashion.

    "My wife was to meet me here at this hour. Have you seen anything of her?" "Is she a small woman with golden ...

    Article : 218 words
  20. THE WORLD'S LARGEST CANDLE.

    A candle ten feet high which will burn for two years or more was once manufactured for an Italian cathedral. It measured eight inches in diameter, ...

    Article : 201 words
  21. Encore "Piece" to Speak.

    I stood on the bridge at midnight, It was dark as dark could be, When a man from the country came And tied his horse to me. ...

    Article : 187 words
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