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  2. Etiquette.

    ENTIQUETTE is not as strict as it once was—as when, if a courtier sat on a red-hot stove by mistake, he had to roost there—and it is good form to compliment your hostess when she ...

    Article : 281 words
  3. Old Mordecai's Cockerel.

    AFTER Bob had gone, Lucy took up the raisins, when, happening to look out of the window, she saw Sadie looking over the fence. "I will give her my raisins," thought Lucy. ...

    Article : 1,972 words
  4. Mother Love.

    WE were at a railroad junction one night last week waiting a few hours for a train, in the waiting room, in the only rocking-chair, trying to talk a brown-eyed boy to sleep, who ...

    Article : 546 words
  5. A Genuine Encore Fiend.

    THE encore fiend in America has often been rapped over the knuckles by the Press, but he still insists on getting more than he pays for. There was a time when I used to write a little ...

    Article : 779 words
  6. Facts and Fancies.

    A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.—HUDIBRAS. A STATISTICIAN estimates that courtships average three tons of coal each. ...

    Article : 1,008 words
  7. Flotsam and Jetsam.

    THEY were newsboys—bright little fellows, comfortably dressed, and with a commercial air about them that spoke volumes for their future—not brothers, but chums; each one ...

    Article : 1,077 words
  8. Artemus Ward at a Young Ladies' Seminary.

    ARTEMUS WARD, after delivering a lecture once in New London, Conn., was asked by the principal of a young ladies' high school in the place to pay a visit to her institution the ...

    Article : 291 words
  9. The Miseries of a Mean Man.

    SOMETIMES I wonder what a mean man thinks about when he goes to bed. When he turns out the light and lies down. When the darkness closes in about him and he is alone, and ...

    Article : 307 words
  10. Major B—'s Appearances.

    MAJOR B-(very popular) got a dainty note from Lady X., and wouldn't he play in her theatricals? Weak man—he would. A few days after he received a rehearsal card ...

    Article : 323 words
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