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  2. MY SISTER’S DILEMMA

    A biting ea[?]t wind has everything its own way out-of-deers to[?]day. It whirls away in triumph the few brown leaves that have olung obatinately until now to the ahivering ...

    Article : 3,429 words
  3. BOOK WORLD GLEANINGS

    Mr Louis Becke, the talented author of “By Reef and Palm,” is just now in Lon-, don, and after the usual fashion, he has been unbosoming himself to English ...

    Article : 716 words
  4. A Red Parasol.

    He was absolutely unruffled by what had occurred. The revelation of her faithlessness had left him perfectly calm. He filled his pipe without scattering the ...

    Article : 638 words
  5. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    Do you remember the time when every well-regulated parlonr wall showed pictures arranged in solemn trios, a large one in the centre of each group, flanked by two smaller ...

    Article : 295 words
  6. A New Marine Railway,

    The idea of running a self-propelling car on a railway submerged in the Bea—decidedly auniqne one—has bean oarried into practical effeot at Brighton, where a line, operated ...

    Article : 600 words
  7. USEFUL INFORMATION

    Apricot growing in Dama[?]us is worth to cultivato[?] between £20,000 and £30,000[?] year. There are 1000 aubmarine cables in use ...

    Article : 440 words
  8. THE CARE OF A WATCH.

    There are few people who seem to realise what a del[?]oate instrument a watch is. This is shown by the fact that nine persons out of ten persist in winding their timepiecas at ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. GRAVE AND GAY.

    Nothing ever touched the heart ef a reader that did net oome from the heart of the writer. “So the mi[?]sne is te be married, oh?" ...

    Article : 481 words
  10. Domestic Drudges.

    One of the obje[?]tionable fe[?]tures in badly. managed households, where the employer has not thought out the relations which ought to exist b[?]tween different grades ...

    Article : 309 words
  11. THE HOME CIRCLE.

    LEMON CHEESE CAKES,— Two lemons, quarter of a pound of butter, one pound of sugar, four eggs. Put the butter in a pan, melt, then add the sugar, the grated peel ...

    Article : 393 words
  12. How to Lose.

    In the [?]gerness of business competition, in the race for a prize, whether it be social or commerolal or political, what a rare field for that magnanimity which will not take ...

    Article : 180 words
  13. A Mistaken kindness.

    R[?]ther a good story is told of a certain milliona[?]re. He is a man of the most extraordinar[?]ly par[?]imonio[?]s habits, despite his vast fortune, and it is his boast that h[?] ...

    Article : 427 words
  14. Lonely People.

    The people who most of all are in want of consultation, advice, and sympathy, are the lonely. To say that it is our. own fault if one is isolated and without sati[?]fying ...

    Article : 227 words
  15. Spoilt by Winning.

    How few men and women there are who can bear meekly and generonsly the intexication of their prosperity! Very often, the most deteriorating result of human ...

    Article : 192 words
  16. Just a Little More.

    In Dub[?]in the legal charge for a short ride in a public carriage ia [?]ixpence, but Pat expects yon to give him more, and, if yon ask him his fare, he invariably “laves ...

    Article : 343 words
  17. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Don't eat w[?]en very not or very tired. Re[?]t and coel first. Don’t set your table in the hot kitchen. Better put it under the tree[?]. ...

    Article : 120 words
  18. The Meanest Man.

    The agent for a handsomely-illustrated book to be sold on long-time Credit—a feast to the Intelleot and an adornment to any library—leaned against the side of the ...

    Article : 187 words
  19. POETRY.

    We all look on with anxious eyes When father carves the duok, And mother almost always sighs When father carves the dnok. ...

    Article : 198 words
  20. LOVE AND KISSES IN JAPAN.

    Japanese women, it appears, do not care for love. They prefer friendship; it is less trying and less deceiving. ...

    Article : 241 words
  21. Engaged Girls,

    It is not difficult to understand why the engaged girl seon becomes a bore to the most tolerant of [?] her friends. She is so proud of her betrothed that she wants to ...

    Article : 209 words
  22. A Good Advertisement.

    A returned convict who hold[?] forth every Sunday in Hyde Park up[?]n his prison experiences, told his auditors the following good story, which he used for the purpose ...

    Article : 324 words
  23. Servants and Children.

    A trial to whioh servants are subjected In ill-managed households is the torment o[?] children. It is sometimes forgotten that, when a girl gees into service, she does not ...

    Article : 218 words
  24. Friends or Companions.

    Companionship is but a casual thing, a means of amusement, a devioe for smoothing the way by little accommodations. A man may be our companion and yet we may ...

    Article : 191 words
  25. What She’d Do.

    A braoe of tourists, strolling in the vicinity of their hotel at Killarney, chanced across the not very rare spectacle of a “ purty girl milkin[?] her cow.” The yoanger ...

    Article : 174 words
  26. A Distant Voice.

    Eighteen miles is the l[?]ngest rooorded distance at which a man’s voice has been heard. This was in the Great Canon of Colorado, where one man shouting ”Bob” ...

    Article : 129 words
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