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  2. GREATER THAN GOLD

    Those of us who have not been presented at Court know all about it, in a few cases, from our friends, but for the most part from newspapers and ...

    Article : 5,060 words
  3. WHICH END OF A POST SHOULD BE UP.

    It is a common belief among farmers that a post will last longer if set in the ground the reverse of the way it grew in the tree, in other words, ...

    Article : 420 words
  4. AMUSING INCIDENTS.

    Dean Hole told a capital story of John Bright. A witty and persistent clergyman was urging Mr. Bright to subscribe towards rebuilding his ...

    Article : 80 words
  5. WOMAN'S WORLD.

    Sometimes, when nothing goes just right, And worry reigns supreme, When heartache fills the eyes with ...

    Article : 141 words
  6. A Mark of Nationality.

    Sir David Gill, the famous astronomer, was once emphasising the extraordinary care and minuteness with which astronomical observations ...

    Article : 82 words
  7. A Poor Congregation.

    Mr. Robert Ford, who has just published a delightful book entitled "Thistledown," tells all amusing story of a clergyman who stood for some time ...

    Article : 85 words
  8. HONEYMOON TRAMPS.

    The average bride when she changes her orange blossoms and her resplendent wedding dress for the more prosaic travelling costume, does ...

    Article : 171 words
  9. A Wise Precaution.

    Two seamen—an Irishman and a Scotsman—had been breaking leave and had been ordered to receive ten strokes of the "cat." They had ...

    Article : 113 words
  10. NAPOLEON AND SCIENCE.

    We think of Napoleon as the great Lord of War, the butcher of human lives, the builder of a great empire, built only to fall even before the death ...

    Article : 224 words
  11. PERMIT TO REMARRY.

    Because he has lived "a uniformly good life" for at least five years, Mr. Charles R. Pelgram, a millionaire silk manufacturer of Paterson, a town ...

    Article : 126 words
  12. HOTEL FOR "DOWN-AND-OUTS."

    An hotel for "down-and-outs," which has just been opened in Chicago by Mr. Charles Dawes, a millionaire bank president, is filled every night, while ...

    Article : 179 words
  13. A Persuasive Tongue.

    At school in Cornwall, Mr. Rudyard Kipling, never a brilliant scholar, was known as "Gigs" (i.e., "gig-lamps," meaning spectacies), and was ...

    Article : 106 words
  14. The Etiquette Book.

    "Madam," he began, as the door opened. "I am selling a new book on 'Etiquette and Deportment.'" "Oh, you are," she responded. "Go ...

    Article : 203 words
  15. In Trouble Again.

    Traveller (to an Irishman): Well, Mike, I see you have a small garden. "Yes, sorr!" "What are you going to set in it ...

    Article : 92 words
  16. PATTERN FOR CHILD'S KILT AND JUMMPER.

    Many a mother will welcome this simple little frock. It is easily made and would look well in any material. The jumper is separate, the kilt ...

    Article : 245 words
  17. The Grateful Father.

    A young man, at the risk of his life, saved a beautiful girl from drowning. Her grateful father seized the rescuer of his daughter by the hand, and, in ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. What It Meant.

    A good story is being told of a Parliamentary candidate who is "nursing" a Sussex constituency in view of the next election. He was ...

    Article : 197 words
  19. A "Weekly" Story.

    A maiden with a lot of Mon. Was much beloved by everyone. She had a lisp, quite fetching, Tue., And crowds of "chappies" came to ...

    Article : 99 words
  20. Something to Help.

    When the Kaiser announced to Prince von Buelow that he had decided to appoint him Chancellor of the Empire, he was surprised to see a ...

    Article : 204 words
  21. The Neighborly Spirit.

    The neighborly spirit is an excellent thing to cultivate, although not, perhaps, as it is cultivated in the following story: ...

    Article : 77 words
  22. Not So Green As He Looked.

    A man with a wife who has her own ways about doing things is lucky enough to catch her now and then. "My dear," he said the other ...

    Article : 138 words
  23. Half and Half.

    An old woman of tremendous size hailed a tramcar, and with considerable difficulty managed to climb up and get a seat inside. When she was ...

    Article : 80 words
  24. Advertising

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    Advertising : 716 words
  25. Spiteful.

    "My husband considered a very long time before he proposed to me. He was very careful." "Ah, it's always those careful ...

    Article : 113 words
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