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  2. FACTS & FANCIES. THE THRILLS OF MOTOR-BOATING.

    Writing in the October "Person’s Magazinc" on the [?] new sport of [?] Mr. S. F. [?]ige, the champion motorist of Britain, on water as wall ...

    Article : 412 words
  3. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    "Wall, since you must, I should call you quarrelsome." It was Mr. Thomas Featherston-Hope— Tom, my lover, who said these words! ...

    Article : 2,747 words
  4. VARIOUS VERSES. A LOVE STORY.

    Love end the summer both were young, And so were man and maid, When under leafy boughs I swung Her hammock in the shade: ...

    Article : 161 words
  5. JOKELETS.

    Teacher: "Who discovered America?" Small Boy: "Dunno." Teacher: " Why I [?] every boy in school know that." Small Boy: "I didn't know it was ...

    Article : 619 words
  6. IN THE ARMCHAIR. THE WRECKER.

    With a steady vibrating hum and a cloud of dust the big car swept up the hill. Out of the dust came a sound of confused and perturbed [?]ucking. ...

    Article : 317 words
  7. SPRAY. AN ANACHRONISM.

    The members of the Highland Society had arranged to have a dance, and a tall son of the North was discussing the forthcoming event with a friend, and ...

    Article : 101 words
  8. A NEARER BID.

    Mr. Rostrum’s birthday party this year was a tremendous success. In fact, there was only one hitch during the entire evening, and this was due to Mr. Rostrum’s ...

    Article : 119 words
  9. WHAT IS LOVE?

    Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above. Ask of the great sun what is light. Ask what is darkness of the night, ...

    Article : 67 words
  10. WHERE HE WAS WRONG.

    Some men are afflicted with miserly dispositions, although every reason of heredity and position seems to show that they should not be so. ...

    Article : 129 words
  11. LOVE'S SILENCE.

    By Love’s religion, I must here confess it, The most I love when I the least express it. Small griefs find tongues; full casks are ...

    Article : 74 words
  12. BRIBING THE DOCTOR.

    After a hard day's work Georgie returned home soaking wet and in not too good a humour, to find his mother-in-luw on a visit. He was none too pleased at ...

    Article : 104 words
  13. MOSCOW.

    From its geographical position in the heart of Russia, the large number of railways radiating from it in every direction, and from its old-established ...

    Article : 327 words
  14. THE TOYS TALK OF THE WORLD.

    "I should like," said the voice from the china store, "To have seen the world a little more. When they carried me here I was wrapped ...

    Article : 194 words
  15. SUCCESSFUL AT LAST.

    A tramp on the road, being very hard up for tobacco, decided to beg for some. He met several men on his wanderings, and asked them to give him a fast; but ...

    Article : 125 words
  16. HEADACHE CURES.

    It may be said, with little fear of contradiction from those who know the facts, that if a cast-iron law forbidding the use of any drug whatever in the ...

    Article : 439 words
  17. EVILS OF EDUCATION.

    Bill Hodd had just finished obastising his son. "Wot’s ‘e been up to?" inquired a neighbour. ...

    Article : 119 words
  18. LOVERS DISPLEASED BY SACRIFICES.

    To be prepared to make sacrifices for the sake of a sweetheart is one of the signs of true love. In fact and in fiction it as the test of affection most frequent ...

    Article : 736 words
  19. TOO BAD

    It is not always in regard to the big things that the greatest impudence is shown. Charles James Fox, watching the first balloon ascent mode in England, put ...

    Article : 189 words
  20. TWA BAWBEES.

    Four bosom cronies had nearly emptied their bottles after first—footing their friends on a New Year’s morning, and, reaching a friendly lamp, under its dim light they ...

    Article : 85 words
  21. AQUICK WIT.

    A man had an irritating habit of saying "It might have been worse" upon every occasion. At last one of his friends took a bet that he would make it impossible for ...

    Article : 88 words
  22. THE BOY WHO IS FAITHFUL.

    It is all right to be smart, but it is all wrong to be smart in the wrong way. I have seen boys who think that they are smart in ordering others around and ...

    Article : 534 words
  23. R.I.P.

    Charlie was being taken for a walk through a cemetery. Suddenly he asked, "What does 'R.I.P.’ stand for? Some of the gravestones have a lot of reading on ...

    Article : 81 words
  24. PRESERVING APPEARANCES.

    A society woman, whose face at 60 is as fresh as that of many a woman under 40, [?]scribes her comeliness to the fact that she takes a good three-quartens of an ...

    Article : 198 words
  25. SMALL BEGINNINGS—GREAT ENDINGS.

    Cardinal Wolsey was the son of a butcher. Columbus was the son of a weaver. Sir Richard Arkwright was the son of a ...

    Article : 87 words
  26. HOW MARION CRAWFORD LOST A DINNER.

    Mr. Hall Caine has established a reputation for unusual conversational powers. A story indicating this developed during his recent stay in New York, and it is ...

    Article : 321 words
  27. NO DECEPTION.

    "No," said the old gentleman sternly, "I will not do it. Never have I sold anything by false representations, and I will not begin now." ...

    Article : 110 words
  28. WASTED ELOQUENCE.

    The perfervid teetotal lecturer was getting discouraged. Twice he had asked all the young men in his audience to signify their intention of signing the pledge, ...

    Article : 187 words
  29. AN IRISH WITNESS.

    "When did you last see your brother?" asked the magistrate. Pat replied, " The last time I saw him, your worship, was about eight months ago ...

    Article : 90 words
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