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  2. "THAT LITTLE BIT OF FLUFF."

    Kipling has a well-known line which runs:—"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." The bard had been reading a Scottish breach of promise ...

    Article : 800 words
  3. COLLECTING DEBTS.

    When a creditor cannot get his money his obvious remedy is to sue for it. But the law is slow and costly, and sometimes a man is ingenious enough to dispense with ...

    Article : 923 words
  4. BEAUTY FOOD.

    To eat beauty, so to speak, at breakfast and dinner is a more pleasant performance than the usual process which ladies undergo to enhance their good looks (writes the ...

    Article : 928 words
  5. QUEER CONTESTS.

    Recently (says a London paper of March 3) a clay-digging competition, arranged between a member of the Blackpool Town Council and a prominent local Socialist, fell ...

    Article : 689 words
  6. A MURDER MYSTERY.

    In the course of his evolution, man has allowed to lapse into disuse many qualities with which he was endowed in the earlier ages of his development. As the ...

    Article : 1,460 words
  7. IRISH HUMOR.

    I have often been assured by Irish people who know nothing of England that there is no such thing as humor in England (writes Miss Katherine Tynan, in the "Scotsman"). ...

    Article : 1,865 words
  8. PLAYING AT INDIANS.

    Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton, artist, author, and lecturer, who sees in the intense commercial activity of the United States the bacillus of physical decay, and ...

    Article : 983 words
  9. BABY MILLIONAIRES.

    In spite of the pangs with which the rich profess to view their miserable lot, the millionaire babies of America, according to a correspondent of the London "Daily ...

    Article : 1,029 words
  10. AN OCEAN MYSTERY.

    Among the most remarkable of ocean mysteries is the fate of the good ship Naronic, a liner of over 5,000 tons displacement, owned by the White Star Company. ...

    Article : 747 words
  11. FORTUNE-MAKING IN FIVE MINUTES.

    Nothing in real life is more grim than the way in which Fortune, sought or unsought, will suddenly smile upon an individual, and then with equal suddenness withdraw her ...

    Article : 618 words
  12. THE SUN A GIGANTIC BUBBLE.

    The sun is of such limitless importance to the inhabitants of the earth from whatever point of view we may regard, it, and we are so entirely at its mercy, that any ...

    Article : 608 words
  13. A FATHER'S OBLIGATIONS.

    In the Chancery Division of the London High Court of Justice recently Mr. Waterhouse, a medical practitioner, of Scarborough, applied for an injunction to ...

    Article : 525 words
  14. MAKING A STATUE.

    Some remarks regarding the amount of actual chiselling work done by sculptors, which Were made in the course of an action brought at the Marylebone County ...

    Article : 426 words
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