... f Frederick II i 1 L Fenn jjj it FJ THE man who said marriage was a habit was probably right, and herein lies the reason why the percentage of marriages among widows is so high. Once you have been accustomed to the companionship of the opposite sex it is difficult to do without it. Here is no case of once bitten twice shy. The position is more analogous to that of the man who has been bitten ...

... V J SIBTL I CHURCH Jj il J 1 I DESPISE a man who creeps shivering into love as if it were a cold bath. Nina Hartley's words splashed sharply on the silence like water poured from a window. Shows a certain modesty, said Herri lees. Or ignorance, I suggested. Or youth, said Prade, slowly, as though his reply mattered. Love being the one topic on which everyone has opinions, Nina's casual ...

... F> I THE COMMUNICATIVEl WOMAN BY MAUD CHURTON BRABY (Author of Modem Marriage and How to Bear It, Downward, etc.) 1============== A TELF PHONE s TRAGEDY t I IN a large and extraordinarily untidy room at the very top of a tall, narrow house in Berkeley Square, a large and extraordinarily untidy woman lay at work. Her position-- stretched flat on a many-cushioned divan-- justifies the verb, ...

... jS>ABY ^\9i Vy I I ^Margaret 11 Butler ll k CZZ3 MRS. BEESTON, the mother of the Rev. John Beeston and, therefore, the mother-in-law of Mrs. John Beeston, sat in her son's drawing- room in a state of very pleasurable anticipation. It was the morning of the annual flower show of the little Surrey village where Mr. Beeston had his living. The sun was shining and the Bishop was coming, the former ...

... THE LAUNCH of the PREPOSTEROUS Related by THOMAS TATTENHAM j Al THE INNER HISTORY I| Of A II i JOURNAL 1/ i A97/C .9C r=fi3 [Editorial Foreword. This story was suggested, to the author while witnessing some years ago the launch o) a mammoth liner. In publishing it, we desire to stale that the story is, jrom beginning to end, pure fiction, and that the incidents and the persons connected with ...

... THECORPSE THAT L AUG ITET) BY JOHN N. RAPHAEL A Story |i S of the |l Assizes jj aAZJ THE excitement round the door of a first-class carriage in the Wisbech express, which was still in Northampton station five-and-twenty minutes after it should have been well on its way through the green Lincolnshire meadows, was intense. Passengers, guards, policemen, and porters were all talking at the same ...

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... IN THE GRIP OF A VICE BY THOMAS TATTENHAM (Author of The Girl Through the Mist, etc., etc.) A j 5 A TALE 1ft OF POLITICAL 1/ I BLACKMAIL 1 Approximate date of Narrative, February, 1915] THIS suspense, Mr. Spofforth-- the Con servative candidate approached, with out stretched hand, his young Radical opponent this suspense is terrible, is it not? The counting of votes was in progress at ...