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  2. HUMOUR. ANOTHER VIEW OF THE MATTER.

    I firmly believe.' she said, 'that woman should have the right to propose.' 'Of course, if woman proposes,' he replied, 'she would give an engagementring ...

    Article : 61 words
  3. LADIES' COLUMN MATTERS FEMININE.

    Sable fur being this season very dear marmot, looking much like it, is often used instead. In Germany it is far more difficult to ...

    Article : 501 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 125 words
  5. TWO YANKEES AND A SCOTCHMAN.

    Two Americans in London inspected a certain fire-engine station. One of them remarked to the chief engineer. Do you know, in New York we use a nine-inch ...

    Article : 152 words
  6. ALMOST EMBOLDENED.

    'Young man,' said the mother of the family, confronting him, 'you have been coming to see my daughter for more than a year. Have you any reason to think she ...

    Article : 90 words
  7. HOUSEKEEPER.

    Good flour is essential; it need not be the dearest or whitest, but it must be dry and good, and when pressed in the hand it should cake together. If through any ...

    Article : 1,113 words
  8. VERY MUCH LIKE A WHALE.

    Tradition has it that in the year A.D. 1259 an enormous whale was stranded off Flamborough Head in a state of great exhaustion, with a church steeple ...

    Article : 90 words
  9. VARIETIES. THE OTHER WAY ABOUT.

    A certain American railway magnate once owned a Western line, along the route of which he established a series of luncheon rooms, at which employees were ...

    Article : 91 words
  10. PERSONALITIES.

    The Pope had four different hammers presented to him for the ceremony of opening the Holy Door in St. Pater's on Christimas Eve. Only one could he use, ...

    Article : 384 words
  11. SHE KNEW BETTER.

    'Charlotte, my dear, how is it I find you weeping? Have you bad news from your husband?' 'Oh, worse than that! My Arthur ...

    Article : 126 words
  12. POETRY.

    She is shoulder-high to her shortest charge; Shoulder-high—not a morsel more; But ahe could not reign, were she twice as ...

    Article : 242 words
  13. OVERCOMING A DIFFICULTY.

    A little London boy and his aunt, while paying a visit in the country, one day crossed a pasture together. When they were half-way across the lady noticed two ...

    Article : 140 words
  14. LITTLE BOY BLUE.

    A kindergarten teacher has tried a pleasant way of teaching her scholars by reading them a poem and then asking them to draw a picture of it. ...

    Article : 130 words
  15. THE BEST OF ALL.

    Mrs Millionaire was passe, it is true, and no longer in the full freshness of her girlhood; but the dear deceased had died very rich, and the surviving moiety was ...

    Article : 102 words
  16. ENGLISH LETTER.

    I feel rather inclined to hesitate in giving my dear friends a little piece of news which, if I know them well enough to judge, will be as unwelcome to them as ...

    Article : 935 words
  17. 'QUICK MARCH!'

    Even an extremely aggressive enemy can be easily conquered by strategy; it is only a question of employing the stratagem exactly fitted to the case. ...

    Article : 182 words
  18. TALLOW CANDLES AS MEDICINE.

    In France many of the peasantry still stick to medicines calculated to turn the average doctor's hair grey with horror. Wine is an ingredient of every ...

    Article : 145 words
  19. SIR HENRY IRVING.

    Incidents in the career of Sir Henry Irving are always interesting. It is not generally known that when he was a boy he lived with an aunt who is a Cornish ...

    Article : 206 words
  20. Original Novel. A Liiile Maori Wai[?]

    The Maori is musical if anything, and the Maori is also a creature of leisure; he has not learnt the fever and worry of hurry. Happier than the Pakeha in that ...

    Article : 429 words
  21. SHE WAS POSITIVE.

    The proprietor of an establishment dear to the hearts of ladies, that is to say, a milliner's shop, tells the following very good story of a late customer. He lays ...

    Article : 314 words
  22. QUITE SUFFICIENT.

    A boy was summoned to testify in a case of assault ill which one man had hit another with a hoe. A host of witnesses had been called, who 'beat about the ...

    Article : 286 words
  23. JULES VERNE.

    Even in these days of prolific writing, Jules Verne is probably the only living man who has written more than one novel for every year of his life; and seeing that ...

    Article : 252 words
  24. 'FLITTING' MADE EASY.

    There is in an important German City a business called the Ruck-Compagnie, or 'Flitting-Company,' and their business is the slightly unlawful one of assisting ...

    Article : 274 words
  25. THE LARGEST WARDROBE.

    If an inquiry were made among a party of women folks as to which of their sex possessed the largest wardrobe, few would probably guess aright. As a matter of ...

    Article : 202 words
  26. ONE FAULT.

    'There's only one fault to be found with your comedy work,' said the dramatic critic. 'What's that?' asked the aspiring ...

    Article : 31 words
  27. CHAPTER XV.

    Happiness, wrote a preacher who has crossed the vale, consists not in the abundance of our possessions, but in the limitation of our wants. To have many ...

    Article : 1,577 words
  28. ADJUSTING MATTERS.

    'That woman next door went and got hat exactly like mine.' 'Did you make a fuss about it?' 'No; I gave mine to the cook.' ...

    Article : 29 words
  29. HIS SIMPLE TEST.

    'Are you fond of music?' 'Vary,' answered the young man with wide ears. 'How do you make the distinction ...

    Article : 64 words
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