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  2. Short Story.

    In the [?] [?] of her own set Miss [?] Manners was considered a very pretty person. she certainly had a gayly winning eye, a round and rosy check, a soft ...

    Article : 3,180 words
  3. PERSONALITIES.

    The writer of the 'Note to Notabillitis referred the other day to a [?] between Mr. Henry Irving and the Late L[?] Bedconsfield. I remember Sir William Fraster ...

    Article : 132 words
  4. A STORY OF MALIBRAN.

    Madame Malibran, the famous and gifted operatic singer. was as justly renouncd for her goodness of heart as for the wonderful qualities and powers of her voice. A little ...

    Article : 384 words
  5. SKETCHER.

    Some peculiar will have been made by men who, as far as their wives were concerned, did not consider that they had been treated properly during life ...

    Article : 651 words
  6. HUMOUR.

    Mistress : ' What did you do with the mousetrap, Bridget?' Bridget: 'I burnt it up, mum. It was attracting all the mice in the house ...

    Article : 736 words
  7. Spare Moments.

    Gannie—' He is a very grave and severe man, but still, I think he is quite attractive.' Kitty—' Well, if he is, it's the attraction of gravity ...

    Article : 38 words
  8. A STORY OF BEETHOVEN.

    Beethoven had a horror of being ' exhibited,' and very rarely played before strangers. A story is told that once he was cheated into playing at a social gathering ...

    Article : 221 words
  9. A GIVE-AWAY ALL AROUND.

    'I think,' she said as she came into the room, ' that I will give that poll parrot away.' ' Yes,' replied the young man who was ...

    Article : 44 words
  10. SHE WAS PARTICULAR.

    Carrie Constant—' So you've thrown your new admirer overboard [?] Gertie Gaygirl—' You bet; just as soon I learned he was a dairyman ...

    Article : 56 words
  11. ACT IN THE PRESENT.

    Don't keep alabaster boxes of love and sympathy to break over coffins. Living is none too sweet at best, and flowers on the coffin cast no backward fragrance ...

    Article : 61 words
  12. THE COMING HEROINE.

    Mr. Jinks—'I wish you wouldn't allow our daughter to read those sentimental novels.' Alts. Jinks—' She isn't reading a ...

    Article : 80 words
  13. MRS. GLADSTONE.

    In her early yours, Mrs. Gladstone must have been very handsome. She was sister and, in her issue, heir of Sir Stephen Glynn, the last baronet of that name. Another ...

    Article : 399 words
  14. LADIES' COLUMN

    There is only one fashion in dress materials, and its name is ' spots.' An epidemic of dots has broken out over almost every fabric, and the ere w[?]check is Hearing its nadir on the ...

    Article : 940 words
  15. BOOKS OR BABIES?

    Why, dear Leouie, you're a wonderful child, searcely out of your teens, and you've published a novel, a book of poems and a pamphlet on ' Sexual Statics.' Of course, I ...

    Article : 1,359 words
  16. A CASE IN POINT.

    ' Women are very suspicious creatures." 'Well, now, I think the contrary. In my opinion they are very confiding.' ' They are—over the left ...

    Article : 57 words
  17. AN EVENTFUL DAY.

    ' Well, well!' exclaimed the editor. ' If that wasn't a queer experience !' ' What was that ?' said the foreman. ' There was a man in here just now who ...

    Article : 51 words
  18. APHORISMS.

    It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.—Johnson. Children have more need of models than of critics.—Joubert ...

    Article : 205 words
  19. LADY SALISBURY.

    Lady Salisbury, of whom one naturally hinks next, inherited much of the talent of her father, Baren. Alderson, who was one of the wittiest and ablest judges of his time ...

    Article : 325 words
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