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  2. A Building Wonder

    There is a striking monument on the Scottish Border. This is the 100 feet high obelisk on the peak of the lofty Langholm Hill in Dumfriesshire ...

    Article : 299 words
  3. [A Personal Experience.] Shadow and Sunshine

    “Why don’t you let me fetch in the doctor?” asked Betty, very earnestly. “You can’t make yourself well by keeping on saying that there’s nothing ...

    Article : 1,090 words
  4. The Walking-Stick

    The walking-stick, we are told, is on its last legs, or ought we—more correctly—to say its "last leg”? It has gone out of fashion, and not many ...

    Article : 903 words
  5. Treasure Under London

    The scene was a thoroughfare in the heart of London one morning just over fifty years ago. A very old building had been demolished, and navvies were ...

    Article : 999 words
  6. The Flying Trapeze

    Vana Stood erect on the trapeze bar at the highest point of the vast circus tent, and the crowd below shuddered. Suddenly she rolled forward for her ...

    Article : 519 words
  7. The Most Useful Thing

    Recently (writes a visitor to a museum of industries), as I was standing and gazing at one of the scientific marvels there, a little boy and his father ...

    Article : 293 words
  8. Rasputin Island

    One of the most curious colonies in the world to-day exists on the Island of Valamo, at Lake Ladoga, in Finland, just over the Russian border. ...

    Article : 740 words
  9. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    A doctor warns nervous people that sleeping with the electric light on all night is apt to give one a bad headache. Especially when the bill comes ...

    Article : 180 words
  10. BETTER KNITTING.

    enjoys knitting into the backs of cast on stitches. Oh, I know that some of you will tell me that they cast on by twiddling wool round their thumbs ...

    Article : 492 words
  11. SELECTED RECIPES.

    Veal Mould.—Take 1 lb. of cooked veal, half a pound of streaky bacon, and two bard boiled eggs cut in slices. Arrange tbese in layers in a buttered ...

    Article : 202 words
  12. TEETH-MARKS AS CLUE.

    A policmau's teeth marks have led to the arrest of a dangerous criminal in Singapore. Suspecting that the man had in his ...

    Article : 154 words
  13. I D'eclair.

    At a New York restaurant the colored waiter was handing round the cakes. “Waiter," said a fair young damsel, ...

    Article : 37 words
  14. WHERE'S THE CAT?

    “Didn't I tell ye to feed that cat a pound of meat -every day until ye had her fat?" demanded an Irish shopkeeper, nodding toward a sickly, ...

    Article : 124 words
  15. Time to Go.

    "Mary!” called the lady of the house to her maid, "I’ve ordered a new griller. If it arrives while I am out have it put in the kitchen. I suppose ...

    Article : 77 words
  16. Last,

    "I see you are at the bottom of the class for spelling!” said a father to his small boy. "Yes,” he replied, "that was ’cos I ...

    Article : 33 words
  17. Uncomfortable.

    "Sit on ’em, Ireland—sit on em, Pat kept shouting at a football match between Ireland and Scotland. Jock, standing behind him, could ...

    Article : 170 words
  18. Nothing More

    Hostess: “I hope my husband wasn t rude when he asked you to play?” Foreign Pianist: “Oh, no. ’E ask me that I not play a certain tune.” ...

    Article : 161 words
  19. What He Said.

    Miss Elder (severely): “Mr. Gazzam I understand you have been telling people I talk too much." Gazzam (apologetically): “My deal ...

    Article : 112 words
  20. Article Cover.

    Sergeant Blowbag was holding forth to an admiring crowd of Tommies in themess-room. “Once I was surrounded by the enemy,” he boasted, "and I ...

    Article : 100 words
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