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  2. WHAT WOMEN PAY FOR BEAUTY.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,012 words
  3. “SOUL FREEDOM.”

    Mdme. Adele Rique, High Priestess of the organization known as the “Circle of Universal Soul Freedom,” whose lectures on advanced new thought at Carnegie Hall ...

    Article : 473 words
  4. UPTON SINCLAIR’S MARRIAGE.

    Mr. Upton Sinclair (the Socialist nove[?] list) sprang a surprise upon the public la[?] month by formally announcing his intention of bringing as speedily as possible a ...

    Article : 289 words
  5. DIAMONDS FOR DOGS.

    The “idle rich” of Chicago have been made the subject of a diatribe in the ted States House of Representatives by Mr. H. Robert Fowler, an Illinois member ...

    Article : 283 words
  6. “BLACK HAND” THREAT.

    Mrs. Billings. of Chicago, mother of Mr. C. K. G. Billings, who is a man of great wealth has proved herself, despite her 89 years, more than a match for the “Black ...

    Article : 301 words
  7. BIRD MISSIONARIES.

    The large bird imprisoned in a tiny cage is ever an object of pity, except to its owner. Fortunately, a new era in matters relating to the aviary has begun, and there ...

    Article : 175 words
  8. TO COUNTERACT WAVES.

    The old expedient of pouring oil on the waters to still a troubled sea will never have to be resorted to again if an invention of Heinrich ahm, of the Institution of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 413 words
  9. THE IRISH RAILWAYS.

    The sketch map shows the main railway system of Ireland, with certain important centres or ports. The loading companies may be stated thus:—Great Southern and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 215 words
  10. THE REPENTANT WIFE.

    “Five years ago to-night!” Dr. Basil Graham sit beside the waning fire in his his study, and peered into the ruddy depths. What did he see that caused ...

    Article : 1,866 words
  11. VALUE OF MANKIND.

    Dr. A. de Neuville has been able to compute with extraordinary precision the money value of human beings at various ages. How he got at his figures is not quite ...

    Article : 227 words
  12. THE GREAT QUESTION OF SEX.

    Professor Theophilus Ciesielski, a members of the teaching staff of Lemburg University, Austrian Poland, claims to have solved the secret of deter mining sex, both ...

    Article : 202 words
  13. HERMIT’S FOREST ROMANCE.

    The forest love romance of Herr Emanuel Feltham, a millionaire, 77 years old, who for 30 years has passed a hermit's life at Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, has led to his ...

    Article : 167 words
  14. DYING BABY IN INCUBATOR.

    An amazing story of exhibiting a dying baby in an incubator was related at the Hackney Coroner’s Court, when Dr. W. Wynn Westcott held an inquest on ...

    Article : 265 words
  15. MAN AGAINST MAN.

    Larrikins, hooligans, roughs, and apaches are the same people under different names, No country can boast its freedom from this element, which is naturally worse in a large ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 264 words
  16. OUR COMPOSITION.

    Back in our nursery days we were told that good little people were made or sugar and spice and everything nice. As far as the firstnamed is concerned there is some ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 393 words
  17. ONE OF THE PESTS.

    Who has heard of the “17-year locust?” It sems a new variety, and yet, says an American paper, it is about to appear in the United States, the authority bang no ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 317 words
  18. BOYCOTT OF BEER.

    “No drinks” is the latest punishment for blacklegs, invented by Syndicalism, which is to all intents and purposes the French equivalent of our trade unionism. The ...

    Article : 200 words
  19. HERRING HARVEST.

    The herring fishing fleet of 500 boats operating from Fraserborough have this season succeeded in netting 151,000 crans of herrings, which represent a total of 151 ...

    Article : 173 words
  20. NOVEL FORGERY PLOT.

    Fraulein Helene Seitz, the daughter of an army officer, has pleaded guilty at Tachan, Bohemia, to a series of charges, including forgery, with the object of swindling an ...

    Article : 313 words
  21. “BLACKHAND” BOMB.

    Two people were instantly killed, and fourteen seriously injured by a "Black Hand" bomb at St. Louis on the 11th ult. The bomb was placed in the Italian ...

    Article : 154 words
  22. 1811 AND 1911.

    What with beat and the Moorish question, Parisians are almost becoming superstitions. Comparisons have been made between 1811 and 1911. The question is asked ...

    Article : 173 words
  23. CUTTLEFISH FARMS.

    At several points on the British coast there are located cuttlefish farms, where the little creatures are kept in tanks or ponds to be “milked” of their ink. The ...

    Article : 277 words
  24. BISHOP AND RECTOR.

    An unseemly dispute has broken out in the United States in the ranks of the Episcopalian clergy, following the remarkable action of a Philadelphia rector, the ...

    Article : 178 words
  25. GERMAN DIVORCE INCREASE.

    Divorce in Germany, the classic land of husband rule, is heavily on the increase, according to the official Statistics for 1909, which have just been published. While the ...

    Article : 90 words
  26. UNWELCOME VISITORS.

    At Emm[?]d Church, Nottingham, considerable excitement was caused among the the congregation one Sunday by two bullocks entering while the vicar was ...

    Article : 82 words
  27. FRUIT AND THIRST.

    It is well to know that one of the greatest advantages of fruit is that it offers us pure water, for which we do not need a filter, to the amount of nearly 50 per cent. ...

    Article : 162 words
  28. HEROIC ENGINE DRIVER.

    An engine driver on the French Western Railway has probably saved the lives of many persons on an express train which left Rouen a few weeks ago for Havre. A ...

    Article : 187 words
  29. GOD OF RAIN.

    A spectacle was witnessed in Bombay a few weeks ago which has not been seen there for nearly half a century—a procession of Hindus to the seashore to offer ...

    Article : 237 words
  30. WHY CAKES FAIL.

    The following hints as to why cakes sometimes fail are levelled at the modern householder by an exchange:—Because inferior ingredients are used, such as rancid butter, ...

    Article : 140 words
  31. CITY OF CONVENTIONS.

    Detroit is “The Banner Convention City of America.” Last year no fewer than 182 “conventions,” congresses, conferences, May meetings, and so forth, were held ...

    Article : 178 words
  32. VANITY A SAFEGUARD AGAINST ACCIDENTS.

    Street car companies in at least two foreign cities are making a subtle appeal to the vanity of their woman patrons in order to lessen, the number of accidents ...

    Article : 193 words
  33. 880 PUFFS A MINUTE.

    The number of puffs which a locomotive gives in a given distance is governed entirely by the size of its driving wheel. For every turn of the wheels it gives four ...

    Article : 231 words
  34. HIS GRIEVANCE.

    A liked Anita Jackson best of all Tho girls I know. I even liked her when She walked along; the top of our brick wall. An’ dared me foller—an' I did, an’ then ...

    Article : 166 words
  35. 20,000 FOR VICTORIOUS ARMY.

    The New York Herald (European edition) has received the following telegram from its San Domingo correspondent:— “The usual game has begun in Hayri. ...

    Article : 74 words
  36. THREE MEN IN A BOAT

    One of the gargoyles on Selby Abbey represents three men in the throes of seasickness, leaning over the side of a boat. Dr. Soloway, great archaeological ...

    Article : 71 words
  37. THE MORNING AFTER.

    Our artist depicts a purely imaginary scene that may take place in the not too far distant future. It shows a “patient” undergoing the famous Harley street cure for alcoholism [?] listening to what [?] the night before. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 35 words
  38. THERE’S MANY A SLIP—”

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 8 words
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