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  2. THE CONQUEST OF INSOMNIA.

    Although Napoleon went through strenuous campaigns with only four hours' sleep each night, Edison finds about the same amount sufficient, and ...

    Article : 591 words
  3. THE UNDERSTANDING HEART.

    The head is usually associated with the understanding, the heart with the affections. We are rightly supposed to think with the brain; we are wrongly ...

    Article : 553 words
  4. COUNTING THE HAIRS OF THE HEAD.

    "Hair is distributed all over the human body, excep the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, the lips and the eyelids. Its thickness varies ...

    Article : 517 words
  5. NATURE'S CONJURING TRICK.

    There is always a certain amount of sadness in the autumn, for we know that Nature, although she may put on her most beautiful dress, is dying. But ...

    Article : 567 words
  6. PERILS OF MOTHER'S SYMPATHY.

    When we speak of the qualities of a good mother we always put sympathy at the head of the list (writes a woman correspondent). ...

    Article : 573 words
  7. SAVING THE CROPS.

    Douglas Jerreld, a gentleman who lived some centuries ago and who was noted for his pithy statements, was describing a fertile stretch of land. ...

    Article : 1,195 words
  8. QUITE EASILY.

    Brown went to a tobacconist's for some cigarettes. After paying for them, he said to the man behind the counter: ...

    Article : 127 words
  9. LUCK.

    When the agent for the life insurance company paid Mrs. Stone the insurance on her late husband's life, he asked her to take out a policy on ...

    Article : 46 words
  10. THEIR GUIDE.

    Little Maggie, who is staying in the country, always goes out to the fowl run in the morning to see if there are any eggs. The other day she found ...

    Article : 60 words
  11. AWKWARD.

    The young man in love had screwed up his courage at last for the interview with her father. "Darling," he told her, "I am going ...

    Article : 598 words
  12. AUNT MARIA SAYS—

    The railway nearly caught us on our visit to the seaside the other Sunday. My youngest was travellin' in a basket, an' when some 'ussy knocked ...

    Article : 124 words
  13. WHERE HE CAME FROM.

    He was a gentler specimen of his class than one usually meets, and when he made his appeal for something to eat at the kitchen door he was asked ...

    Article : 151 words
  14. WHAT MA HEARD.

    "Elizabeth," said her mother sternly, "did I hear Mr. Simply kissing you in the parlor as I came along the hall?" "No, mamma, you didn't," responded ...

    Article : 190 words
  15. A HUNGRY PIECER.

    A little piecer at a certain mill decided to stop in the mill to his dinners for a change. The first night he reached home his ...

    Article : 134 words
  16. ECHOES OF THE TRUTH.

    Golf is a game of skill and patience. At the same time it is also a great strain on veracity. Four men were playing a match on ...

    Article : 115 words
  17. THE ARMY WAY.

    "Falling in!" sounded the silvery notes of the bugle, and the men rushed to take their places. "Dress by the right!" roared the ...

    Article : 344 words
  18. THEN MOTHER FLEW.

    Mother: "What are you meddling among the books for?". Willie: "I am looking for the book, "How to Bring up a Baby.'" ...

    Article : 60 words
  19. SHE COULDN'T HEAR THEM.

    "Good joke on my mother-in-law; I haven't stopped laughing yet!" remarked the man at the club, cutting the cards. ...

    Article : 123 words
  20. THAT WAS ALL.

    The manager of a touring theatrical company received a letter from a woman in London stating that her husband, one of the members of the ...

    Article : 75 words
  21. THE CATCH.

    Jones was an ardent angler, and when he died he left four sons—Tom Dick, Harry, and William. His savings, £50, which he kept in a cash ...

    Article : 135 words
  22. MIGHT WANT IT.

    The Jones family was on holiday, and it had rained every day for a week. They were all very gloomy as they sat in the front room of their ...

    Article : 265 words
  23. THEN THE FLY FLEW.

    An art critic was speaking of the virtues of this painting and the faults of that one. "Now you see in this picture the ...

    Article : 221 words
  24. ONE OF THEM.

    A lady entered a restaurant and ordered dinner. When she received the bill she sent for the manager, and complained of the excessive charges. ...

    Article : 203 words
  25. WORTH MEETING.

    A house-hunter saw an advertisement in the papers describing a charming house "within a stone's throw of the station." ...

    Article : 132 words
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