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  2. POETRY.

    Down in the orchard, where the leaves Play hide and seek all day, I crossed the web the shadow weaves. And came where Doris lay. ...

    Article : 100 words
  3. PERSONALITIES.

    'A little, delicate, dark-haired woman, with refined features, a rosebud mouth, a nose piquantly retrousse, and clear blue confiding eyes.' ...

    Article : 178 words
  4. A WRINKLE ABOUT BOOKS.

    The sixpenny editions of good books now being issued are quite worth buying if you cannot afford more expensive editions. Three sixpenny books by the ...

    Article : 73 words
  5. TO CLEAN LACK.

    If you have any fragile old lace, don't send it away to be cleaned. Instead, buy some calcined magnesia, and sprinkle it thickly on both sides of the lace. Then ...

    Article : 87 words
  6. WHEN WE GROW OLD.

    When we grow old, dear love, and from my eyes. The light and brilliance of my hot youth dies, ...

    Article : 201 words
  7. WHEN THE QUEEN BORROWED MONEY.

    A pretty story respecting the Queen's first visit to Bristol, 69 years ago, is told on apparently good authority. With her mother she entered a china shop in High ...

    Article : 135 words
  8. BINDING BOOKS.

    It is quite possible to bind your books at home very cheaply if you do not mind taking a little trouble. Cut two pieces of cardboard slightly larger than the book ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. SKETCHER

    A centenarian burglar is undoubtedly a marvel even in these days of new and startling developments, yet such was the age confessed to by a silver-haired ...

    Article : 449 words
  10. RHODES AND THE 'LINER.'

    Your recent reference to the Colossus of the Cape, reminds me of an incident I can bear witness to, which illustrates a trait Mr. Rhodes shades with most men who ...

    Article : 247 words
  11. ENGLISH LETTER.

    Instead of the puff or the flounce being at the upper part of the sleeve, it commences from the elbow, and descends to the wrist, or, if it be a flounce, still lower. ...

    Article : 766 words
  12. NOVEL.

    'Mamie Rivers sang a solo ' Rescue the [?] rishing.' Who is going to do it ? Beyond giving a pittance, not a woman in that fashionable church. How sweetly ...

    Article : 3,127 words
  13. SCIENCE

    Coal-ashes are generally considered worthless; yet a rag dipped in paraffin and then coal-ashes will clean steel fireirons beautifully. Also they can be mixed ...

    Article : 308 words
  14. MASTER OP THE OCCASION.

    General Gorden was a man who know how to use the decisive moment, and resort, if necessary, to the most extreme measures in order to insure a necessary ...

    Article : 387 words
  15. CARE OF THE HAIR.

    Every woman should have at least Six combs . Both Mdme. Patti and Mrs, Langtry, two of the most fastidious women, have that number. The combed ...

    Article : 346 words
  16. MASTERS RUINED BY THEIR MEN.

    'In one important branch of our business,' remarked a big manufacturer during an office chat.' we employ a particular process that gives us almost a monopoly ...

    Article : 937 words
  17. BEETHOVEN SAT IN THE ROAD.

    Beethoven was never known to be without notepaper and pencil, and whenever an idea struck him he put it at once on paper, being by no means choice about ...

    Article : 124 words
  18. SCHOOL FOR COOKS.

    The problem of getting good cooks is hourly becoming a very serious one, as the demand is very much larger than the supply, so that a new scheme started in ...

    Article : 159 words
  19. TO REMOVE GREASE STAINS.

    Mix together one ounce of powdered French chalk and five Ounces of powerful Pipeclay; make this into a paste by gradually adding two ounces of spirits of ...

    Article : 91 words
  20. HUMOUR.

    Mamms: 'Johnny, I fear you were not at school yesterday. Johnny: 'H'm! I know the teacher told you. A woman can never keep a ...

    Article : 407 words
  21. LADIES COLUMN.

    If the paper in your bedroom is shabby, and yon cannot afford to have it done up, strip it off the walls, fill up cracks and smooth over rough places with putty, ...

    Article : 145 words
  22. BUTTONHOLES.

    When making buttonholes always run the buttonhole-twist all round the hole about one-sixteenth of an inch from the edge before beginning; the actual button. ...

    Article : 63 words
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