The doorway from the public stairs opens immediately upon the living-room without the intervening privacy of a small hallway. The room was, no doubt, more formally pretentious in the early days of the Williams’ marriage; but the relics of that time—some rigid mahogany chairs and stray pieces...
In that pleasant district of North America formerly known as Nova Caesarea or New Jersey, and latterly as New Jersey, there extended in ancient times a large forest covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and plains which lie between the Atlantic Ocean and the river Delaware.
Fictitious narratives, designed for the perusal of children, should (in the opinion of the Writer) be familiar in their subjects as well as in their style; and slight in their construction: They should hardly aim to excite more than a very transient or superficial emotion. If they are highly...
A day at Happy Hollow School by Lettie Cook Van Derveer
There's no doubt that for many people, life is simply too overwhelming,Everyone is given 24 hours in a day, but everything you do take time.To fit it all in, it's imperative to prioritize, organize and delegate, we live in a hectic and complex world. It's natural to want to get a lot done and to...
TEACH YOURSELF MIND-POWERED ZERO-DIET WEIGHT LOSS (the mental magic series)
The young man sitting opposite to him smiled. “At least, Excellency, let me hear it. May not the man before whom the danger will lie be the best judge of whether he can undertake it. As to the delicacy involved——”
A hatvanas évek vége felé a «fiatal óriások» egy kis csoportja a fürdő-utczai Kávé-forrásban tanyázik. Bohó álmokat álmodoznak, hirnévről, dicsőségről, irodalomról, költészetről beszélgetnek, olvasmányaikon éldelegve maguk próbálják megrebbenteni a szárnyaikat...
There is a great difficulty in writing of the women of the first ten years of the twentieth century. This is to be the Woman’s Century. In it she is to awake from her long sleep and come into her kingdom; but when I look about me I find myself surrounded by the most terribly contradictory facts...
Hard-worked hansoms and goblin-eyed motor-cars spun along the smooth asphalt; jeweled women and carefully attired men streamed in at the light-flooded lobbies of the theatres. Electric cars loaded with pleasure seekers flashed clanging up and down.