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  2. GEMS OF THOUGHT.

    Love has boon known to make wise men silly and some fools really sensible. The present is the future from which we hoped so much. ...

    Article : 489 words
  3. Love in a Mask.

    Ernscliffe retired to his sleeping chamber that night with happy visions of the future crowding upon his brain. The evening had been the most delightful ...

    Article : 3,733 words
  4. SOME GOOD STORIES.

    The present popularity of Doctor Conan Doyle, as a writer of fiction, naturally makes great demands upon his mental resources, but he appears to be quite ...

    Article : 251 words
  5. KEEPING OF HOLIDAYS.

    A commercial ago may ask what is the value of maintaining holidays which break into one's normal life, and of attempting to perpetuate a sentiment which is forced ...

    Article : 489 words
  6. THE FIRST PAIR OF PANTS

    Have you neon the boy with his first pair of pants? Then you have soon a king I an emperor! a royal autocrat, who has reached ...

    Article : 640 words
  7. WOMAN'S WORLD.

    Teach your daughter drawing, painting, music, etc., if you have enough money to allow her to keep them up, otherwise she is only wasting time in pursuing such ...

    Article : 158 words
  8. ALWAYS THE SAME TO MOTHER.

    A pale face, through teardrops still tenderly smiling. The face of my mother—I see it to-day, As clearly as when from the home of my ...

    Article : 228 words
  9. SIR JOHN MILLAIS.

    The late Mr Lester Wallack, who was Sir John Millais' brother-in-law, tolls the following story of the great artist's very early days:—He was so little when I first ...

    Article : 281 words
  10. HIS USUAL EXPRESSION.

    J. W. Riley tells a quaint story of his former lecturing partner, Bill Nye. It was the opening of their joint season. They had both been rusticating, and were ...

    Article : 295 words
  11. DOMESTIC THUNDERSTORMS.

    We have heard it asserted that a quarrel now and then in a family is not a bad thing—that it purities the domestic atmosphere, rendering it pleasant and ...

    Article : 206 words
  12. FAULT-FINDING.

    Fault-finding is a luxury in which most of us at times participate. It requires a great and searching effort of imagination to picture anybody so good or so ...

    Article : 385 words
  13. "OUIDA" AND THE BRITISH BOY.

    The following authentic anecdote of Ouida, the famous Florentine authoress, is charmingly characteristic of that gentle and lovable lady. During the summer of ...

    Article : 271 words
  14. WHAT RULING COSTS.

    Every time the clock ticks a sum of £38 is spent on the costly task of governing the world, and every month absorbs £100,000,000. ...

    Article : 245 words
  15. A RECORD IN WIDOWHOOD.

    Senora Roy Castillo, a Mexican lady, surely holds the world's record for multiple widowhood, as she has worn the weeds seven times between the years ...

    Article : 130 words
  16. KEEP STRAIGHT AHEAD.

    Pay no attention to slanderers or gossip mongers. Keep straight out in your course, and let their backbitings die the death of neglect. What is the use of ...

    Article : 211 words
  17. A TALE OF ARTEMUS WARD.

    In the smoking-room of a well-known hotel, late one night, Art[?]mus Ward played one of his favorite practical jokes. A number of strangers were reading the ...

    Article : 157 words
  18. To Dry Clean White Cashmere.

    The following is one of the French dry cleaning methods, and if the dress is not very dirty you will find it most ...

    Article : 80 words
  19. A SAD MISTAKE.

    It is a sad mistake, but a common one, to count that man an enemy to a system who, seeing its defects, busies himself in their correction. He suggests changes ...

    Article : 212 words
  20. TIT FOR TAT.

    A clergyman who enjoyed the substantial benefits of a fine farm was slightly taken down on one occasion by his Irish ploughman, who was sitting on his plough ...

    Article : 129 words
  21. EPITAPH ON AN OLD HORSE.

    Here lies a faithful steed, A stanch, uncompromising "silver grey," Who ran the race of life with sprightly ...

    Article : 190 words
  22. ABOUT TREES.

    The most costly tree in the world is the plane tree, which grows in Wood-street, in the City of London, being the same tree which was referred to by Wordsworth ...

    Article : 262 words
  23. HE WAS THINKING.

    Dusk was falling, and the lamps of Piccadilly, feebly contending against a misty fog, formed blurred grey haloes in the darkness. Hansoms and cabs flitted ...

    Article : 206 words
  24. THE CONSISTENT WEATHERCOCK

    The wind blew out of the North, Out of the North it flew, And the weathercock, whirling round, observed, ...

    Article : 101 words
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