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  2. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

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

    Article : 294 words
  3. A New Marine Railway

    The idea of running a self propelling car on a railway submerged the sea—decidedly aunique one—has been carried into practical effect at Brighton, where a line, operated ...

    Article : 593 words
  4. MY SISTER'S DILEMMA

    A biting east wind has everything its own way cut-of-doors to-day. It whirls away in triumph the few brown leaves that have clung obstinately until now to the shivering ...

    Article : 3,290 words
  5. BOOK WORLD GLEANINGS

    Mr Louis Becke, the talented author of "By Reef and Palm," is just now in London, and after the usual fashion, he has been unbosoming himself to English ...

    Article : 697 words
  6. USEFUL INFORMATION

    Apricot growing in Damasous is worth to cultivators between £20,000 and £30,000 a year. There are 1000 submarine cables in use ...

    Article : 441 words
  7. 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 : 625 words
  8. THE CARE OF A WATCH.

    There are few people who seem to realise what a delicate instrument a watch is. This is shown by the fact that nine persons out of ten persist in winding their timepieces at ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. GRAVE AND GAY.

    Nothing ever touched the heart of a reader that did not come from the heart of the writer. "So the missus is to be married, eh?" ...

    Article : 476 words
  10. Domestic Drudges.

    One of the objectionable features in badly managed households, where the employer has not thought out the relations which ought to exist between different grades ...

    Article : 306 words
  11. THE HOME CIRCLE.

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

    Article : 392 words
  12. How to Lose.

    In the eagerness of business competition, in the race for a prize, whether it be social or commercial or political, what a rare field for that magnanimity which will not take ...

    Article : 180 words
  13. A Mistaken Kindness.

    Rather a good story is told of a certain millionaire. He is a man of the moat extraordinarily parsimonious habits, despite his vast fortune, and it is his boast that he ...

    Article : 420 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 it one is isolated and without satisfying ...

    Article : 222 words
  15. Spoilt by Winning.

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

    Article : 191 words
  16. Just a Little More.

    In Dublin the legal charge for a short ride in a public carriage is sixpence, but Pat expects you to give him more, and, if you ask him his fare, he invariably "laves ...

    Article : 339 words
  17. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Don't eat when very hot or very tired. Rest and cool first. Don't set your table in the hot kitchen. Better put it under the trees. ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. The Meanest Man.

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

    Article : 183 words
  19. POETRY.

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

    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 : 233 words
  21. Engaged Girls.

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

    Article : 208 words
  22. A Good Advertisement.

    A returned convict who holds forth every Sunday in Hyde Park upon his prison experiences, told his auditors the following good story, which he used for the purpose ...

    Article : 322 words
  23. Servants and Children.

    A trial to which servants are subjected in ill-managed households is the torment of children. It is sometimes forgotten that, when a girl goes into service, she does not ...

    Article : 217 words
  24. Friends or Companions.

    Companionship is but a casual thing, a means of amusement, a device 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 brace of tourists, strolling in the vicinity of their hotel at Killarney. chanced across the not very rare spectacle of a "party girl milkin' her cow." The younger ...

    Article : 171 words
  26. A Distant Voice.

    Eighteen miles is the longest recorded distance at which a man's voice has been heard. This was in the Great Canon of Colorado, where one man shouting "Bob" ...

    Article : 127 words
  27. Advertising

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