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  2. A DAUGHTER OF THE ENEMY.

    I was unfelgnedly glad the other day when, walking along the Strand at noon, I came face to face with my old friend Daventry. We Lave been pals for years, ...

    Article : 2,868 words
  3. TOILET HINTS.

    Says an English paper:—Nothing betrays the careless woman sooner than her nails, and nothing shows refinement better than the name possessions. ...

    Article : 366 words
  4. WIT AND HUMOR.

    About the best way to retain your ideal of a lover is to let him become another woman's husband. Some people are so consulted that they ...

    Article : 1,057 words
  5. ALL VERY FINE

    The [?] : "Would you mind if i went into a smoking compartment, dear ?" The Bride: "What to smoke?" ...

    Article : 67 words
  6. DOING BARNUM.

    The following story of Barnum is told by "Professor Hutchiugs," the "lightning calculator." Barnum used to go at one time to a certain New York barber, by name ...

    Article : 150 words
  7. THE GAME OF BRIDGE.

    As most people are aware, the great card game which has taken society by storm is Bridge. Why this game should have attained the extraordinary vogue ...

    Article : 766 words
  8. DEAD DAYS.

    The lover of luxury must reflect with sadness on the fact that the site of Sybaris is now only a malodorous marsh. That city, once the home of all material ...

    Article : 1,274 words
  9. PLENTY OF TAY THERE.

    An Irishman, in the course of a discussion touching the superior natural productions of various countries, said—"You may talk as you please about it, but Scotland in the finest ...

    Article : 81 words
  10. NO PLACE FOR A CORRECT CLOCK.

    A Birmingham tradesman recently had occasion to visit a certain[?], where he was impressed with the remarkable docility of the inmates. He saw many of them bustling about ...

    Article : 154 words
  11. SHOPPING.

    She left her home at half-past eight, To certain make she'd not be late. At ten the doors were opened wide. Two minutes past she was inside. ...

    Article : 177 words
  12. THE UP-TO-DATE LONDON HOME.

    Among my brood of nephews and nieces, first, second, and third cousins and the like, there is one, a niece, who has lately returned from her honeymoon, having ...

    Article : 468 words
  13. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    We have been friends together, In sunshine and in shade. Since first beneath the chestnut trees In infancy we played; ...

    Article : 156 words
  14. A FAIR CHANGE.

    I once heard a girl make a remark to the effect that she "hated" the word "Duty." It seemed to be, in her estimation, the type of all that was hard and ...

    Article : 564 words
  15. HASTY BURIALS

    The possibility that a person, apparently dead, may be buried alive is never absent from the minds of those who have lost their dear ones, and in most cases, when ...

    Article : 552 words
  16. FROM THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND.

    Tn a Scottish town not long ago a crowd had gathered before a large glass window fronting on the street. They were attracted by a magnificent white-headed ...

    Article : 532 words
  17. "THAT INTERFERING PARROT."

    Hampson: I hear your engagement with Miss Minks is broken off. How's that? Hill: Well, you see that beast [?] a parrot of hers was always yelling, "Oh, Charlic, ...

    Article : 56 words
  18. ONCE A YEAR.

    In a certain district in London an old man went up to the ticket office of a public bath, and asked for a single ticket. The girl in the box told him it would be cheaper taking the ...

    Article : 55 words
  19. DID WHAT HE WAS TOLD.

    The other evening a game of bowls a was in progress on one of the local greens, and the worthy president, who was skipping, being directed to plant his bowl on a certain spot, cut ...

    Article : 101 words
  20. FAR GONE.

    Said one drunken crouie to the other last week—"Man, Jock, I'll admit I'm fond o' a dram, an' whiles when drunk act the fool: but If I thocht i was as bad as you were last ...

    Article : 87 words
  21. A GOOD POINT TO IT.

    "You are limping a bit, I see." said one young map to a chum, who bad a brand new [?] at home. "Yes, I am lame. Had to rite in the middle of the night and walk the ...

    Article : 101 words
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