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  2. "An Australian Millionaire,"

    Priscilla Lockstud was at work that morning of Aunt Jessie's sermon to her husband, sitting, as usual, plying her needle industriously, and ...

    Article : 6,131 words
  3. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    "You admit that you are an, impostor?" asked the magistrate. "No, I don't, your worship." "You claimed to be blind, and yet you ...

    Article : 147 words
  4. WOMAN'S WORLD.

    There are, it is pleasant to be able to record, a large number of Australian girls who find a large part of their physical culture in helping mother in ...

    Article : 202 words
  5. CARNEGIE'S SPORTING OFFER.

    Two millions is evidently a favourite sum of money with Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Ho gave that sum to the Scotch Universities, and now he is offering it ...

    Article : 212 words
  6. AN ARDENT LOVER.

    Several young men were talking about love, and one said he had an uncle who went crazy on the tender passion. ...

    Article : 231 words
  7. A MOTHER'S POWER.

    The late Sir Walter Besant says in his "Autobiography":—When I think of such imaginative gifts as I have possessed, I' go back in ...

    Article : 122 words
  8. HOW THE KAISER DISTURBED THE KING'S WEDDING.

    The King is fond of telling how the German Emperor caused a little scene at his wedding in St. George's Chapel. The Kaiser was only four years old at ...

    Article : 165 words
  9. MRS. ROOSEVELT SETS A FASHION.

    The latest addition to Mrs. Roosevelt's out-of-door toilet is a sunbonnet of white muslin and lace, strikingly suggestive in its make-up of the ...

    Article : 150 words
  10. A YAWNING ABYSS.

    A joke just now going the rounds of the press should be read every morning by the man who is perpetually talking about himself. ...

    Article : 311 words
  11. UNWISE MANAGEMENT.

    "When I was fifteen and very fond of managing," said a woman of fifty, a bit of advice was given me by an aged aunt. [?] ...

    Article : 218 words
  12. BEING LATE AT MEAL-TIMES.

    [?] their women folk are so upset when the man-of-the-house is late for meals. Considerate husbands there are, indeed. ...

    Article : 198 words
  13. GIRLS VARY TOO MUCH.

    We sometimes hear the expression. "She is not that kind of girl at all." This discloses the fact that there are many kinds of girls. There are society ...

    Article : 175 words
  14. Make the House Comfortable.

    We have no patience with the man who allows the windows to rattle in the casements, while, with a hammer, a few nails, he could, in an hour or two, ...

    Article : 163 words
  15. ABOUT RIGHT.

    Patience: "He really must have a soft spot in his heart for me." May: "How do you know that?" Patience: "He says he is always ...

    Article : 52 words
  16. THOSE LITTLE HURTS.

    Taking life through, the larger part of the sadness and heartache it has known has not come through its great sorrows, but through little, needless ...

    Article : 360 words
  17. PETTICOAT PROTECTION.

    Tippington:"I used to shoot, but found it too expensive." Biffler:"Too expensive" Tippington:"Yes; every time I went. ...

    Article : 43 words
  18. DRUDGERY AND ITS DISCIPLINE.

    Webster defines drudgery thus: "Disagreeable and wearisome labour; ignoble and slavish toil," and by some curious and almost inexplicable ...

    Article : 220 words
  19. Hungry for a Hand-Shake.

    He was sitting in a park. He looked down-hearted and despondent. His clothes were dusty, but not ragged. There was a look of despair on his boyish ...

    Article : 325 words
  20. NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.

    Old Gentleman: "My stars! Why are you smoking on that keg?" Quarryman:"Arra! be aisy! This ain't dynamite; it's nuthin' but ...

    Article : 117 words
  21. SATISFIED AT LAST.

    They sent him round the circle fair, To bow before the prettiest there. I'm bound to say the choice he made A creditable taste displayed, ...

    Article : 143 words
  22. WOMEN IN ASHANTI.

    The Ashanti women are treated with much more respect than other African women. They are really treated as the equals of men, and are said to be very ...

    Article : 271 words
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