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  2. DON'T WORRY.

    Live in the present, deal with the present, master the present, make the most and best of the passing hour. and don't waste it by distressful regrets ...

    Article : 158 words
  3. LOST FOR EVER.

    Little things can be very trying at times, especially when they happen to you. Mr Fry thought something like this, when, one wet morning, he could ...

    Article : 173 words
  4. THE WORRIES OF THE WILLIAMS'.

    Disagreeing husbands and wives frequently air their grievances in Fitzroy court, and on Tuesday, 21st inst., another was added to the list. Bessie ...

    Article : 577 words
  5. WISPS.

    The following have been appointed office-bearers of the Fitzroy branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League for the ensuing ...

    Article : 95 words
  6. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

    Kelly was brought into the dock, charged by his wife with assaulting her. Mrs Kelly, who had given her better half in charge on the previous night, ...

    Article : 119 words
  7. POLICE PIPS.

    Monday's bench at Fitzroy court is notorious for making a late start. It was 11 minutes past 10 last Monday morning when Messrs E. T. Apps and ...

    Article : 821 words
  8. HIS WISH.

    Billjim was a typical Australian. He didn't like writing letters, and he hadn't written any for months. But his unit, a regiment of Light ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. WAR STRUCK.

    Hundreds of British ex-officers are to-day seeking now fields in which to fight. Soon British soldiers of fortune promise to be as common on the ...

    Article : 507 words
  10. LOVE'S LANGUAGE.

    Horace was a devoat but timid lover. So timid was he that though the signs were favorable, he had never yet summoned up sufficient spirit to ask his ...

    Article : 165 words
  11. NOT THAT TIME.

    On a cold stormy night a man was hastening home with his overcoat buttoned up to his neck. He was rather anxious to know what time it was, but ...

    Article : 155 words
  12. GETTING DESPERATE.

    "Is there anyone present who wishes the prayers of the congregation for a relative or friend ?" asked the minister. "I do," said the angular lady who ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. WHY THE TEARS FELL.

    The little girl stood by the letter-box, weeping bitterly. "What's the matter, "my child?" asked the elderly philanthropist, who ...

    Article : 109 words
  14. NOT A SECRETARY.

    Sam had worked on the farm for nine years, and until his master took to poultry-farming he was quite satisfied with life. ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. PROOF POSITIVE.

    Dejectedly twi[?]ing his thumbs, the clerk sat in the box-office of the F[?]lty Theatre. A depressing air of failure hung over the theatre, and it looked as ...

    Article : 421 words
  16. A CHANCE MISSED.

    A score or more years ago the pulpit of the North Congregational Church of Springfield, Mass., was occupied by a Rev. D. Gage, a scholar and a big man ...

    Article : 134 words
  17. CHANGED SINCE THEN.

    Mrs Brown was entertaining friends, and somewhere between angel cake and chocolates the fair guests began to pay tribute to their respective husbands. ...

    Article : 99 words
  18. SERVANT PROBLEM SOLVED.

    A society of women were having a meeting to discuss the never-ending question of cooks. It was the almost unanimous opinion of the assembly, after ...

    Article : 241 words
  19. DEADLY CRITICISM.

    General Sir Henry Brackenbury, who died at Nice, suffered at one time from insomnia. On one occasion he was talking to General Sir Ian Hamilton ...

    Article : 164 words
  20. WHAT THE JURY DESERVED.

    Sir Matthew Begbie, Chief Justice of British Colombia, once had before him a man charged with having killed another man with a sandbag. The ...

    Article : 126 words
  21. EXPLAINED.

    Little Boy : "A penn'-'orth each of liniment and liquid cement, please." Chemist : "Are they both for the same person, or shall I wrap them up ...

    Article : 59 words
  22. GOOD MANNERS AT HOME.

    Practical jokes are rarely indulged in by persons of nice perceptions, and teasing passes the bounds of good taste when it ceases to be a matter of pure ...

    Article : 155 words
  23. WHEN THE MOON WAS BLUE

    The expression "once in a blue moon," meaning that occurrences are so wildly separated by time as to almost never recur, is not a figure of speech. ...

    Article : 295 words
  24. WHAT MONEY CAN DO.

    He was a self-made man, and his great ambition was to be considered high-class. He purchased a beautiful house, furnished it with antique ...

    Article : 104 words
  25. GIRL WORSHIP.

    "The worship of girlish beauty in this country is unprecedented," said David Belasco, the famous American theatrical producer. "Look at the ...

    Article : 117 words
  26. BEFORE THE FALLS.

    He, his wife, and his wife's sister had started to see something of the world, and had got as far as Niagara. Directly they had engaged rooms at ...

    Article : 125 words
  27. TO REMOVE STAINS FROM WOOD.

    Wood is more or less porous and hence the various stains sink in. In cleaning woodenware, such as wooden spoons, dough boards, and butter ...

    Article : 114 words
  28. ILL-TIMED SYMPATHY.

    At a railway station a poor, shattered fellow, who had lost one leg and the greater part of an arm, was hobbling up the stairs to the platform. The ...

    Article : 62 words
  29. ONLY ONE OBSTACLE.

    "No," declared the young man, with a touch of sadness in lus voice; "it may be that some day I shall be happy, but at present it is beyond me." ...

    Article : 128 words
  30. HER EPITAPH.

    Here lies a poor woman who always was tired, For she lived in a house where help wasn't hired. ...

    Article : 99 words
  31. KINDLY MEANT.

    Murphy approached the house of Mrs Malone with a troubled look. He was the bearer of bad news, and was feeling very miserable. ...

    Article : 119 words
  32. THE USUAL COURSE.

    She : "If you tell a man anything it goes in at one car and out at the other. He : "If you tell a woman anything it goes in at both ears and out at her ...

    Article : 171 words
  33. LIFE-SAVERS.

    A policeman entered the house of a publican one morning and informed him that it would be necessary to hold an inquest there in the afternoon. ...

    Article : 155 words
  34. SOMETIMES!

    Mr McAdoo, the Secretary of the American Treasury, and who married one of President Wilson's daughters, tells a story of a lady who took up ...

    Article : 126 words
  35. Advertising

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    Advertising : 159 words
  36. WAS IT?

    London "Punch" quotes the following extract from the War Trade Department under the reading "Our Official Naturalists" : "I am instructed by the ...

    Article : 50 words
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