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  2. A Practical Dilemma.

    We had been married exactly six months. We were considered very poor by all our friends. Charlie was a clerk in the firm of Messrs. Flynn and ...

    Article : 1,313 words
  3. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    It was a warm day. A ragged looking sundowners was seated by the bush track in the shade of a wild cherry tree in a condition of absolute ...

    Article : 1,195 words
  4. DICKENS AND THE DOG.

    An amusing anecdote of [?] Dickens is told by a young lady who, as a young girl, was for a short time a visitor in the same house with the ...

    Article : 429 words
  5. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    “They tell me young Featherstone has lost all his money In poultry-farming.” “Oh, I heard he’d been playing ducks and drakes with it.” ...

    Article : 457 words
  6. A MAN WITH A CONSCIENCE.

    Mr Howard Danforth, alias John Delmar, alias H. L. Davis—by which last name he was now registered in the office below—this gentleman of many ...

    Article : 2,478 words
  7. TEMPTING OTHERS.

    The principle that we are not to lead there into temptation has a number of applications which people are apt to overlook. For example, when a man ...

    Article : 270 words
  8. CHINESE “ MATCH-MAKERS.”

    In China the match-maker, or go-between, is a very important factor in domestic life. At the present moment he maybe employed in less peaceful ...

    Article : 240 words
  9. A MOSCOW MONSTER.

    The Tsar, or king of bells, as the Russians call it, is in the Kremlin, at Moscow, and, in spite of one or two other claimants for the title, it is ...

    Article : 212 words
  10. THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP.

    In a seacoast town there died not long ago the widow of an old sea-captain herself a voyager on many seas, and the sharer through storm, pestilence, ...

    Article : 721 words
  11. EQUALLY SO.

    Clergyman’s Wife : “ I’ve just had a letter from my son at school, saying [?] won a prize. I can't tell you how delighted I am. I—” ...

    Article : 51 words
  12. THE GREAT TRUSTS.

    The reign of great trusts and combinations which threatened to strangle private enterprise has received a great check for it is now declared that ...

    Article : 203 words
  13. NOT TO BE CHEATED.

    A countrywoman, unused to travelling, recently took a third-class railway ticket [?] a Yorkshire line. She entered a first-class carriage, from which ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. THE BITER BIT.

    A good story illustrating the idea of “the biter bit,” comes from Berlin. It happened at the West End Servants’ Agency, where a lady was ...

    Article : 156 words
  15. PROVED.

    Mrs. Boffin; “I see in the paper that a woman, in looking after another woman, to see what she had on, fell out of a window.” ...

    Article : 48 words
  16. DOING GOOD.

    One step won’t take you very for— You’ve got to keep on walking. One word won’t tell folk what you are— You’ve got to keep on talking. ...

    Article : 56 words
  17. THE VALUE OF LIGHT.

    The majority of people do not appreciate light as they should do. Light, whether material or moral, is the best reformer; it prevents those ...

    Article : 193 words
  18. THE WRONG HAT.

    At Scotch weddings somo years ago it used to be the custom to batter the bat of the bridegroom as ho was leaving the house in which the ceremony ...

    Article : 169 words
  19. SPEED AND HURRY.

    While Speed is filling the bottle Hurry is spilling tile ink; While Speed is solving the problem, Hurry is beginning to think. ...

    Article : 434 words
  20. RATHER GROGGY.

    Florence: “ Mamma, what a lovely colour Uncle Spooney’s nose is! What kind of paint does he put on it?“ Mamma (grimly): “Never mind, my ...

    Article : 101 words
  21. TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.

    An old writer says: “When men lived in houses of reed, they had constitutions of oak; when they lived in houses of oak, they had constitutions of ...

    Article : 147 words
  22. IT FRIGHTENED HIM.

    Amongst tho many “ slips” which have interfered with matrimonial arrangements a recent one is curious. All the proceedings for a wedding in a ...

    Article : 140 words
  23. AIR AND SUNLIGHT.

    Let us take the airiest, choicest, and sunniest room in tho house for our living room—the workshop where brain and body are built up and renewed. ...

    Article : 231 words
  24. HELEN KELLER’S WATCHES.

    The wonderful deal and blind girl who graduated from Radcliffe College, and who made an address at the St. Louis Exposition, has some very ...

    Article : 620 words
  25. THE GERMAN BRIDE.

    As soon as a German girl is engaged she is called ”bride” by her lover, who continues to call her so until she becomes his wife. ...

    Article : 128 words
  26. WOMEN MEN ADMIRE.

    Suggest to any clearheaded, thinking, reasoning man of affairs that you are going to present him to a thoroughly “sensible,” “good” woman, possessed of ...

    Article : 126 words
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