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  2. CHIVALRY AND MATRIMONY.

    With all its fine expressions of ardent levotion to the fair sex, and the multitude of its exquisite pretensions, chivalry was the degradation of the highest and tenderest ...

    Article : 444 words
  3. DETECTING A THIEF.

    A CASE of the application of the Indian [?] by chewing rice is thus described: "A native official, who was employed by the Government for detecting thieves by the ...

    Article : 428 words
  4. PROFESSIONAL BRETHREN BY GEORGE E. WALSH PART 5

    WAS probably as much troubled as my master over this sad state of affairs. Miss Stetson's ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,292 words
  5. CHAPTER XIV.

    HEN I reached the conclusion that something ought to he done to save Sir. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,578 words
  6. SPECS. AND EYEGLASSES.

    In Spain, during the seventeenth century, the wearing of spectacles by both sexes was a mark of social eminence. Although they were not necessary, many kept them on ...

    Article : 780 words
  7. WIDOWS FOR SALE.

    Of all the matrimonial trafficking—in the age of chivalry — the ways of widows are at once the boldest, and most comprehensive. As a rule, their methods seldom resort to ...

    Article : 645 words
  8. CHAPTER XIII.

    HAD now been in my position about six months. The interesting events which I ...

    Article : 901 words
  9. WITS AND WOMEN.

    The prevailing habit of the eighteenth century wits was to regard women as playthings and as fools. There is not in all the poetry of Pope a single ennobling sentiment ...

    Article : 119 words
  10. CHAPTER XV.

    [?] opinion of Dr. squires did not improve any after the disclosures just related, and I ...

    Article : 1,298 words
  11. HOW SHE APPLIED HER LESSON.

    SALLY (in the schoolroom): “All adjective limiting a complementary infinitive agrees with the subject. The complementary infinitive is an accusative of direct ...

    Article : 180 words
  12. HE FELT STRONGER.

    A middle-aged man, whose coat had seen other, if not better,days, rushed breathlessly into a public-house the other day and said, "Woman over at oil-shop—just got letter— ...

    Article : 128 words
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