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  2. HOME LIFE AT THE CLUB.

    Mr. Primmer belonged to the dignified class of men, and though always pleasant in his manner, was not at all of the hail-fellow-well-met order. Accordingly, he caused ...

    Article : 298 words
  3. Between Two Loves CHAPTER XLV.

    Daisy had been three weeks at I [?]dale House, and she was no nearer the knowledge of her husband's secret than she had been at first. She had heard ...

    Article : 2,000 words
  4. EASY AND INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS.

    Take a copper ball of about three inches in diameter, such as a big door knob, for in stance, and wrap it up in a linen handkerchief, then place a red-hot cinder on the top ...

    Article : 371 words
  5. PRAISE YOUR WIFE.

    "How do I look?" asked a young wife who stood before her husband dressed to attend a party with him. He raised his eyes from the paper he was ...

    Article : 268 words
  6. BIRDS AS SURGEONS.

    Some interesting observations have been made by a French savant on the surgical treatment of wounds by birds. In these it was established that the snipe had often been ...

    Article : 193 words
  7. CHAPTER XLVII.

    What was she to do? That was the question which puzzled her. How could she free him, so as to make him happy with this beautiful woman whom ...

    Article : 2,070 words
  8. TOO CLEVER BY HALF.

    He was a new assistant in the big retail establishment, and he was anxious to make a record as a salesman. A young lady inquired: "Can you let me look at some safety ...

    Article : 165 words
  9. KNIFE-HANDLES FROM SEAWEED.

    Of course it sounds perfectly absurd to talk of making bandies for heavy prunning knives out of soft, slobbery seaweed; but it’s done. And very good handles they are, too, and ...

    Article : 144 words
  10. A CHARLES DICKENS STORY.

    CHARLES DICKENS was once by chance my fellow-traveller on the Boulogne packet; travelling with him was a lady, not his wife, nor his sister-in-law, yet he strutted about ...

    Article : 292 words
  11. A PEEP AT FINNISH LADIES.

    The young ladies of Finland are far in ad vance of the young ladies of this country (that is to say in a comparative sense). It is rather a fashion for the young ladies ...

    Article : 145 words
  12. A MAN WHO COULD NOT KISS.

    "Old Boots," a well-known character at Ripon in the 18th century, was born about the year 1692. What his real name was I do not know. He was for a long time boot ...

    Article : 349 words
  13. CHAPTER XLVI.

    The calm, decorous housekeeper stood near the door, all signs of agitation so carefully driven away, so carefully subdued, that not the least trace of it was ...

    Article : 1,989 words
  14. SYCOPHANTS.

    SYCOPHANTS, flatterers, and time-servers are to-day as visible to the naked eye in the Highlands as the bloom on the heather. That grand and peculiarly Scottish character ...

    Article : 96 words
  15. EASILY OBTAINED.

    Last market day in Belfast, a country-woman, having completed the sale of her eggs and butler in the market p[?] oeceded up-town to make some purchases. ...

    Article : 100 words
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