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  2. Lady Dorwood's Sable Coat.

    I had served in Carr and Polland's showroom before my marriage. When, within a year. I found myself widowed, and old Mr. Carr offered me ...

    Article : 2,849 words
  3. SOME ORIENTAL TREASURES.

    The little boy Shah of Persia owns a pipe, smoked by his father on state occasions, which is set with diamond, rubies, and emeralds to the value, it ...

    Article : 335 words
  4. WHERE MAN TRIUMPHS.

    There has never been a woman painter of the first rank, and only one of the second, Madame Vigee Lebrun, for Angelica Kauffmann and ...

    Article : 523 words
  5. CHORLEY'S ADVENTURES.

    Chorley had been up early, helping his wife to move some of the heavy furniture in anticipation of a visit from the sweep. This gentleman had ...

    Article : 1,810 words
  6. THE MAN WHO WILL NOT PROPOSE.

    The despair of the mother with daughters to marry, the thorn in the flesh to their fathers, the very real tragedy to the girl whose heart he ...

    Article : 670 words
  7. PIG NOTES.

    Skilful feeding has much to do in rearing the best pigs. No animal on the farm shows neglect puicker than a pig. ...

    Article : 520 words
  8. HOME HAPPINESS.

    Home happiness depends on the exercise of mutual kindness in the practice of which there is abundant matter for self-denial. Over and over ...

    Article : 259 words
  9. PREPARATION OF PIGS FOR SHOWS.

    First, it is necessary to have a good foundation upon which to build the shape and symmetrical form that is to grace the show pens of ...

    Article : 811 words
  10. SERMONS AND SOMNOLENCE.

    Drowsiness during sermons is one of the faults that is not due to modern decadence, and in "Book of Joys" Mrs. Lucy Fitch Perkins tells a delightful ...

    Article : 164 words
  11. WHEN THE JAPANESE ADVERTISE

    The Japanese have an original way of advertising, and they apply to the art all the poetry that their Oriental imagination is capable of. They have ...

    Article : 126 words
  12. An Alligator's Tongue.

    On one occasion, when travelling along the West Coast of Africa with an old skipper who had known many missionaries but "did not see the use ...

    Article : 183 words
  13. FOR WOULD-BE POETS.

    There is no better aid to the mastery of language than the exercise of verse-making, and even though you may never shine in poesy, your prose ...

    Article : 185 words
  14. NEW RUSSIAN AEROPLANE.

    M. Ulyaninoff, chief of the Warsaw section of aviation, has invented an aeroplane, a model of which was exhibited in Moscow last December. ...

    Article : 128 words
  15. MADE HIS HEART GLAD.

    Twas night, and the editor lay in bed, And thought of the weary day He had just passed, of his aching head ...

    Article : 182 words
  16. ARE YOU AN IF-IST?

    Grover Cleveland once declared that he was an optimist, but not an "if-ist." "An if-ist," said Mr. Cleveland, is a person who is a slave to ...

    Article : 125 words
  17. SOME DONT'S IN DRESS.

    Don't wear your shoes too short. Don't neglect quality for the sake of quantity. Don't imagine that beauty will ...

    Article : 101 words
  18. Astonishing Him.

    "I wish"--he sighed, gazing ardently into his beloved one's eyes--"I wish I were a star." "I would rather," she replied ...

    Article : 268 words
  19. Philosophies in the Shade.

    A cat never cries over spilled milk. A high old time has laid many a man low. It is easier for most folk to follow ...

    Article : 249 words
  20. Six of One and Half-a-Dozen of the Other.

    One of the counsel in a lawsuit consequent upon a misunderstanding with regard to the ownership of some land was describing the boundaries ...

    Article : 212 words
  21. The First Person.

    His Worship: What we want you to tell us are the exact words used the prisoner when he spoke to you Witness: He said, your worship. ...

    Article : 141 words
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