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A Female Army Doctor

... Eng. land, and itfwas in each case expected that orders would come oit,.o, deal with him promptly and ievezelyI hutfor-some mystrious terason no orders of any kind ever eaine bank. Once he was. ca'led in the night to do what he could for a woman who was ...

THE CRUSADERS' SONG

... the Iland for the people! CHtOR US. The land ! The land ! 'Twas God who gave the land The land ! I The land The ground whereon we stand i Why should we be beggars, with the ballot in our haad God gave the land ...

THE DRAMA

... at the hands of a certain woman in the piece, who is very much in the hero's way. She b is his -wife, a bad woman whom ho has married in the i wild days of his youth. 8elieving her'to be dead, he c eas married another woman, the heroine of the piece, ...

THE REVOLT OF MAN.*

... to upset the rule of woman, and to this end she has all along been training Lord Chester, who, as a scion of the old house, is to be placed at the head of the movement; so when she carries him off it is only to take him through Woman's England and to ...

A SHOW OF ANCIENT SHOON

... collection, there is nothing to remind one of the flippant and elegant woman of the world. The above are only a very fewv specimens of the multitude from wbich the nroverbial old woman might choose were she so minded, and we advise our readers to pay a visit ...

OLD DECCAN DAYS

... Now, the tiger overheard the old woman's lamentation, and wondered what sort of a thing that perpetual dripping could be which was feared more than the most ferocious wild beast. And listening, he heard the old woman drag, drag her furniture about from ...

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... by the higher animals-should rob and spoil, defend their homes, be jealous, revengeful, aud disputative, and should war in armies-yet such is the case Thus bees, if the meat of one hive be spent, will assail their next neigh- bours, w~ih intent to rob ...

POEMS FOR THE MASSES

... is that to our stand(ing army of a million and a quarter paupers, mnintained at a cost of ten or twelve millions annuallyP For this monstrous evil and dis- ?? we must fied a remedy, or make it. The land- lords' tax oil the land in tie forum of rent amounts ...

Without the Limelight

... time, but she didn't let the woman see her. ?? had her cry while her land- lady was upstairs seeing. to her bed. The bedohamber wee a miserable, ill- furnished ecpboard of a place, and smelt musty and niamp. -The woman left the candle,-said good-night ...

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A CONCERT

... attention, and, to the alarm of the house, the woman was seen attempting to jump clear of the gallery herself. She caught againet the brass railings, and, amid the shrieks of the audience, she fell over and landed with a heavy sound on the reserved stalls ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1881
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: 7 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

JOHANN STRAUSS'S NEW OPERETTA

... the return of the victorious army from Spain, is gay throughout, and altogether in Strauss's usual strain. There is a very pretty song, rendered admirably by the pig-dealer, who recounts his adventures in the enemy's land, and at the end of each verse ...

Published: Saturday 28 November 1885
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1528 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

FINE ART IN PARIS

... obtained as a, painter of marine views, land- tt scaes, portraits, and peasants engaged in field in and farm work. Two of the finest portraits it bi is possible to conceive are on show. One is an vi old peasant woman, the painter's mother, in a gi white ...