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  2. COUNTESS. CHARWOMAN AND CAPTIVE.

    Those modern girls who have decided on politics as a career may think themselves startlingly original, but they will have to go a long way before ...

    Article : 1,050 words
  3. CELIBACY OR SUICIDE.

    As if the ordinary difficulties and discouragements in the way of matrimony were not sufficient, a great deal of misguided Ingenuity has been ...

    Article : 848 words
  4. BETRAYED BY EYEBROWS.

    Did you know that hair reveals character, or that a man's nationality and the condition of his health can be discovered by microscopic ...

    Article : 357 words
  5. YOU ARE IMPORTANT.

    To be conscious of one's own importance is reckoned a failing. So it is, when the sense of it sticks out all over you "like quills upon the fretful ...

    Article : 494 words
  6. WHICH CHILD IS BEST OFF?

    Is it a handicap to be an "only child" or to come att the beginning or the end of a family? Of late years doctors have devoted a good deal of ...

    Article : 509 words
  7. IS ANY WIPE REALLY HAPPY?

    The other day I was at a friend's house, and met a women I had known many years ago. She had married since I last saw her. We talked of many ...

    Article : 630 words
  8. SHOCKS FOR BRIDES.

    Some months ago a man and a maid met, liked, loved, and in due course married. The marriage promised to be a happy one. But it isn't! When ...

    Article : 294 words
  9. NOSE PRINTS.

    In a big herd it is not always an easy matter to identify a cow. This is specially the case (says S. L. Bastin in the "Boy's Own Paper") where ...

    Article : 250 words
  10. NO WONDER HE WEPT.

    "That was a great speech you made to the jury." "Thanks," said the barrister. "Why, even your client wept. Your ...

    Article : 76 words
  11. MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

    "I don't know what it is, doctor," said the invalid, "but I feel I shall never pull through." "Nonsense, nonsense." answered ...

    Article : 72 words
  12. HIS SACRIFICE.

    "It is only right that I should tell you," she said, "that father has lost all." "Not all!" he exclaimed. ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. A DOG FAMINE.

    Dugald was disgusted at his new boss, a loud-waistcoaied, cigar-smoking man who had come up from London and announced that he had rented ...

    Article : 137 words
  14. KNEW THE SIGNS.

    Old Quills, the stationer, brought forth a box of stationery, and turned the contents out before the young lady. ...

    Article : 133 words
  15. UP-TO-DATE.

    Modern Mother (to her little girl): "The Bishop is coming to tea this afternoon, darling, and you must remember to behave like a real lady." ...

    Article : 64 words
  16. A PERSONAL MATTER.

    The kind old lady noticed a small lad entering a cobbler's shop with a package. "What have you there, sonny?" she ...

    Article : 97 words
  17. THE DUD.

    At a race meeting a Jewish, sportsman had won a bet on a five-to-one chance. When the man with a satchel ...

    Article : 472 words
  18. A SLY DOG.

    "Talking about the intelligence of animals," said young Kanebiter, "why, I have a dog up at the farm that's simply wonderful." ...

    Article : 174 words
  19. NECK OR NOTHING.

    Not far from Newcastle a few miners were talking about hard luck. Each gave his experience. "Why ye don't know what hard ...

    Article : 94 words
  20. KEEPING IT DARK.

    At a dinner party the guests were discussing whether women or men were the most trustworthy in business. ...

    Article : 107 words
  21. AT CROSS PURPOSES.

    She: "A pretty time of night for you to come home!" He: "A pretty time of night for you to be awake!" ...

    Article : 308 words
  22. WORLD'S RAREST STAMP.

    Stamps worth £3,000,000 were on view at the International Philatelic Exhibition, which opened in New York on October 16, and which was the ...

    Article : 262 words
  23. THE PARSON'S MISTAKE.

    Parson (advisedly): "Two rights never make a wrong, Pat, you must know!" Farmer (contradictorily): "Indeed, ...

    Article : 73 words
  24. THE RETORT DISCOURTEOUS.

    They sat together at the same table. They did not like to look at each other much. One of them had already finished ...

    Article : 248 words
  25. CAUTION JUSTIFIED.

    Charlie Higgins was engaged, but somehow he didn't feel altogether happy, so he decided to break off the engagement. ...

    Article : 137 words
  26. WHY HE FAILED.

    Mike was out duck shooting with a friend, who noticed that, although Mike aimed his gun several times, he did not let it off." ...

    Article : 150 words
  27. CANDID CRITICISM.

    A minister who had not been long appointed to a church in the South of Scotland asked one old lady how she liked his preaching. ...

    Article : 90 words
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