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  2. The Home.

    I think my folks is orful mean Ter scold an' scold an' say They wish vacation never came An' school kep' every day. ...

    Article : 314 words
  3. Ancient and Modern Carthage.

    Of all the great cities of antiquity, Carthage has perhaps the fewest traces to show of the glories of bygone ages. Rome, Athens, Thebes, Palmyra, Ephesus—all can ...

    Article : 375 words
  4. Household Hints.

    To renovate carpels, sponge them with a solution of one pert of ox-gall to two parts of water. To set the colours in blouses, though they ...

    Article : 242 words
  5. Short Story.

    It had always been a favourite exercise of Emerson's rather reckless imagination to make all sorts of prophecies about an event which he knew was ...

    Article : 2,443 words
  6. Comic Cuttings.

    "Winlkle grows smaller every day." "I should think he would. His wife sits on him so often." "I was an initimate friend of your late ...

    Article : 667 words
  7. The Retired Burglar.

    "In the hall of a house that I had visited one night," said the retired burglar, "I found in the umbrella can an umbrella that was the biggest one I ...

    Article : 1,189 words
  8. Stair Carpets.

    When putting down new stair carpets, if you do not feel equal to the outlay on the patent felt pads sold for the purpose, you can make them at home as follows:—Take ...

    Article : 124 words
  9. Good Health.

    Bedroom Blinds.—If you have a sensitive eye and brain, and [?] lightly, it is not at all a good plan to screen your windows with red blinds or curtains. The scarlet light, ...

    Article : 423 words
  10. Origin of Barber Poles.

    "I wonder if you know the origin and meaning of that striped pole in from of you shep?"said the [?]ive customer [?] the reticent Barber after he had given ...

    Article : 288 words
  11. Papering Rooms.

    When papering rooms, if the walls have been previously papered, it is necessary to scrape off all old papers, not only from a sanitary standpoint, but also to insure a ...

    Article : 114 words
  12. To Keep Silver.

    Have the silver thoroughly well cleaned (be specially careful that not a grain of salt is left in the saltcellars), then wrap it up in silver or silk paper, and next in either baze ...

    Article : 100 words
  13. Breakfast Table Hints.

    Where breakfast is served in the usual sitting-room of the family, it is apt 'o become a scramble rather than a comfortable meal. To begin with the room should be tidied ...

    Article : 227 words
  14. The Chinese Ear-cleaner.

    In this city of strange and unusual sights there is probably nothing that appears so strange at first sight to the American as the Chinese car cleaner pursuing his calling ...

    Article : 245 words
  15. Not a Competent Opinion.

    "It's a case of whitewash from beginning to end," exclaimed the man with fuzzy whiskers and shoes which had large round holes cut in their sides. ...

    Article : 345 words
  16. An Ocean Liner's Larder.

    "One tiny little refrigerator about 6ft. wide, and twice that depth, is the butterman's stall in this market under the sea," writes [?] C. Candee, in [?] of ...

    Article : 255 words
  17. Census of Insects is Taken.

    An insect census has just been taken on purely scientific lines with a view to determine as far as it is possible which insects are a boon and a blessing to mankind and ...

    Article : 324 words
  18. Origin of the Banjo.

    Over a half-a-century ago, in the town of Banjoemas, on the island of Java, a negro native of the place, desiring go instrument to accompany his voice, conceived the ...

    Article : 262 words
  19. It Crew on Sunday.

    In a country town not far from New York an old-fashioned preacher had exhorted his flock one Sunday not to read the Sunday newspapers. On the following ...

    Article : 201 words
  20. Danger in Thunderstorms.

    If out of doors, trees should be avoided, and if, from the rapidity with which the explosion follows the flash, it should be evident that the electric clouds are near at ...

    Article : 253 words
  21. Gig, a Flirting Girl.

    "Gig" has one or two obsolete and rare meanings of interest. It is obsolete in its meaning of a flighty girl, though a writer so comparatively modern as Mme. D'Arblay ...

    Article : 350 words
  22. Why He Charged Fifteen Cents.

    One of the best after-dinner story-tellers in this country is Andrew Carnegie, whose intention of returning his millions to the public was recently ...

    Article : 317 words
  23. Rivalry in Dakota.

    Rivalry in the matrimonial business runs high in Dakota, as on e must infer from the following justice of the peace advertisements copied from a Dakota paper. ...

    Article : 207 words
  24. The Rose.

    It would seem as if all lands on which the sun shines warm had their special roses. There is the rose of Province, the China rose, the Japan rose, the rose of Damascus, of ...

    Article : 116 words
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