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  2. AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.

    One of those terrible yet ridiculous situations, which, at the time, bring the coldest sweat out on a man's brow, and ever after remain with him as a constant ...

    Article : 336 words
  3. DIPLOMACY.

    In every-day, affairs diplomacy often plays a large part, to say nothing of ordinary commercial transactions, which seem to have a dissimulation of their ...

    Article : 312 words
  4. THE HOUSEHOLD.

    CHEESE BALLS.—These makes a nice savoury; they must be quite small. Mix two ounces of butter with two ounces of bread crumbs and two ounces of grated ...

    Article : 813 words
  5. THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

    Inexpensive Cider.—Mix well ten gallons of cold water, seven and half pounds of brown sugar, a quarter of a pound of tartaric acid; add the juice expressed ...

    Article : 762 words
  6. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,589 words
  7. A NARROW ESCAPE.

    "Which is it to be, Madelon—the blue-eyed Herbert or the dark-eyed Alfred? Which is it to be, fair coz?" Beatrice Schobert asked this question ...

    Article : 1,532 words
  8. TORPEEDO BOATS.

    The chances of death in a naval engagement cannot exactly be computed. The relative danger aboard the different vessels, from the torpedo-boat to the ...

    Article : 219 words
  9. OTHER PEOPLE'S LETTERS.

    It is not generally known (says "Postman's Gazette") that in a corner of the General Post Office at St. Martin's-le-Grand there are a staff of picked men ...

    Article : 159 words
  10. POISING FOR "FILMS."

    "It's quite a new job I'm on now," said a man whom the writer had formerly known as a "rough-and-tumble" street acrobat. "I'm a 'cinematograph model.' ...

    Article : 230 words
  11. UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN.

    With so many people, old and young, wearing masks, it follows that there is an art of mask-penetration which is a valuable one—because it is rare. And to ...

    Article : 283 words
  12. A PERILOUS RIDE.

    A Great Northern workman, employed in the locomotive department at King's Cross, has just had the thrilling experience of riding underneath a railway ...

    Article : 161 words
  13. A DISHONEST NATIVE!

    An African traveller tells how he got the better of a dishonest native, who tried to defraud him. A sable potentate had sent him a present of sundry bags of ...

    Article : 298 words
  14. INK AND MILK.

    The late Lord Tennyson had his little mishaps just as less gifted mortals do. One afternoon he called on some friends, was told that they were not at home, and ...

    Article : 289 words
  15. CURIOSITIES OF INSTINCT.

    In the course of his article on "Instinct," in the ninth edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica," the late Prof. Romanes relates how he gave to a ...

    Article : 273 words
  16. BICYCLE RIDING.

    Putting aside the aged and infirm folk, it is curious to find that there are numbers of active people of both sexes who have never been able to master the ...

    Article : 272 words
  17. NAMED "THE UNLUCKY."

    Cairo received its name from the accidental settling of a crow upon a certain string. The naming of the place dates from ...

    Article : 189 words
  18. MAKING A CALL.

    Do you want to make a call? You can do it in the best fashion. You can let your neighbors for miles around know that you are about by using Smith and ...

    Article : 90 words
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