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  2. A FIGHT FOR A BOOK.

    When Benjamin Franklin came to London from Philadelphia in 1724, according to a writer in the "Daily Telegraph," he found work as a compositor ...

    Article : 465 words
  3. KILTS AND TARTANS.

    The highly picturesque and distinctive costume, of the bold Scottish Highlanders is, if we may believe history, to a large extent the invention of the ...

    Article : 451 words
  4. GRAVE AND GAY

    "Are" you really happy in your wedded life, my dear?" "Oh, yes, mother. George and I have lots of quarrels and I always ...

    Article : 128 words
  5. A SECRET SERVICE Published by Arrangement with Ward, Lock & Co., Melbourne.

    Ida stood on the pavement trying to read something of what was in the child's mind. Certainly Annie had never appeared so serious before. If ...

    Article : 1,893 words
  6. THE FASCINATION OF FLIRTING.

    Woman loves admiration, and man is by nature ready enough to respond; and so we have flirtation—a subtle by-play of looks and whisperings ...

    Article : 290 words
  7. The New Mother.

    "When you kissed your weeping mother good-bye, and went out into the world to make your fortune, I presume her last tearful injunction was ...

    Article : 38 words
  8. His Pathetic Tale.

    The tramp looked shrewdly at Miss Wary, and she returned his gaze with equal shrewdness, but her expression did not soften in the least. ...

    Article : 90 words
  9. A HAPPY "ACCIDENT."

    They were riding back in the carriage after the wedding, the best man and the chief bridesmaid. She spoke of one of the masculine attendants. ...

    Article : 389 words
  10. And Perhaps They're Still There.

    During a recent aviation meeting a young woman went through the hangars and asked the usual foolish questions that aviators and their ani ...

    Article : 93 words
  11. A Mournful Reflection.

    A platelayer was left a hundred pounds by an uncle. He had a rare time, and went through the whole of it in two months. ...

    Article : 94 words
  12. "THE IMMORTAL JOANNA."

    Joanna Baillie, whose poetic and dramatic genius her great contemporary Sir Walter Scott was proud to worship, was born in the old thatched ...

    Article : 242 words
  13. CHAPTER XXVI.

    "Arnold, don't you know-me?" Ida cried. Gray struggled feebly to his feet. He looked terribly worn and spent. ...

    Article : 1,790 words
  14. DANGERS OF SEA-BATHING.

    Sea-bathing, as a form of cold bath, partly by the salt contained in the water and partly by the surge and splash of the surf, is intensely u-! ...

    Article : 414 words
  15. Geography Up-to-Date.

    A teacher in a local school was examining the class on geography, and, addressing a small boy, said: "Now, Johnnie, you have in front of ...

    Article : 98 words
  16. Hough's Happy Reply.

    Dr. Hough, Bishop of Worcester, was a man of singular sweetness of temper and self-possession. A visitor once asked him to show him a ...

    Article : 111 words
  17. WORDS OF WISDOM.

    With a woman, it isn't what a man looks, it's what he says—and does. A woman doesn't care what a man looks like. They'd rather a man ...

    Article : 404 words
  18. "ALL ON ACCOUNT OF THE BABY"

    An ache in the back and an ache in the arms, All on account of the baby. A fear and a fright and a thousand ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. Familiarity Breeds Contempt

    Familiarity, we are told, breeds contempt, and the following story serves to show the contempt with which some workmen treat their labors:— ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. MEN WHO HATE MONEY.

    Probably no one hates the eight of money as do the croupiers at Monte Carlo, through whose hands thousands and thousands of pounds pass every ...

    Article : 203 words
  21. CHAPTER XXVII.

    The challenge from the police boat held no terrors for Ida. She had nothing to fear from the authorities; indeed, her anxiety lay with the boat ...

    Article : 1,832 words
  22. Difficult Even Now.

    While visiting in the south recently a traveller chanced upon a resident of a sleepy hamlet in Tennessee. "Are you a native of this town?" ...

    Article : 126 words
  23. ON THE LOG-BOOK. OF THE BACCHANTE.

    Best known of those mysterious craft that haunt the high seas is, of course, the famous Flying Dutchman, or phantom ship of Vanderdecken. ...

    Article : 292 words
  24. FOUND ON THE FILM.

    A story of a man's recognition, of his long-lost brother in a cinema play comes from Whitstable. During the exhibition of a certain film at the ...

    Article : 198 words
  25. Cigar or Cocoanut?

    The occupants of the railway carriage were listening with joyful interest to the tales of the young man in the corner. He had been all over ...

    Article : 215 words
  26. Jessie Knew.

    They had been quarrelling, and although hubby was willing to take all the blame upon himself and smooth matters over peaceably, she was still ...

    Article : 120 words
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