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  2. MRS. HARRIGAN ON NEIGHBOURLINESS.

    Mrs. Harrigan enters the kitchen door of Mrs. Elkins, her opposite neighbour, and with arms akimbo begins to talk.) Good-marmin'. Ain't it wonderful the ...

    Article : 1,181 words
  3. WANTED SOMETHING BETTER.

    A little lad who shines shoes for a living is a regular attendant at a mission Sunday school. He was keenly disappointed when, at Christmastime, his gift from the tree ...

    Article : 90 words
  4. WANTED ALL THERE WAS.

    "This somewhat grasping spirit," said Senator Burrows, in the course of a recent argument, "reminds me of a lady who the other day dropped into a certain bank. ...

    Article : 139 words
  5. HIS GOOD POINT.

    One Sunday as a retired clergyman, who had occasionally officiated in a neighbouring church, was returning home, he was accosted by a quaint old woman, a ...

    Article : 130 words
  6. BRITAIN'S NEW NAVY.

    The newest unit in the whole of Britain's New Navy is the submarine. Not for this reason alone is it that she is perhaps the most interesting. ...

    Article : 2,293 words
  7. WOMEN'S TABLE TALK.

    There is no true woman entirely callous to the effect of costume, and in a crisis that is other than a great crisis of the soul a new hat acts as a wonderous safety ...

    Article : 993 words
  8. HOUSE MOTTOES.

    Is it the growing desire for ideal suggestion that has brought the house motto into popularity? Or is the hurried life responsible for the fact that favourite ...

    Article : 2,753 words
  9. MARK TWAIN ON HIMSELF.

    "The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed ...

    Article : 1,074 words
  10. WHEN FRED PROPOSED.

    "Fred 'ad a real poetical turn in 'im. It gave me the fair 'eantache sometimes when 'e 'ad a cold, and 'ud sit by the fire readin' Sir Walter Scotch, just for all ...

    Article : 663 words
  11. WITH BITS OF SILVER.

    Pure silver, broken into small, irregular pieces, forms the pay of the Chinese soldier. Payment is an extraordinary process. ...

    Article : 163 words
  12. IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS THAT WAY.

    "Twenty years ago," said the passenger with the red necktie, "I knew that man whom you saw get out at the last station. He was a young man of rare promise—a ...

    Article : 186 words
  13. WHO'S HEAD?

    A famous tragedian, having occasion to play in the provinces, was one night startled at the end of a somewhat lengthy speech by a cabbage falling on the stage ...

    Article : 83 words
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