LiteratureA Reflection Some people are born with vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish…
LiteratureA Pair Of Silk Stockings Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money and the…
LiteratureThe Divine Mischief-Maker Of all the gods on Mount Olympus, Hermes was the most playful. Son of Zeus, the king of the gods, and of Maia, a Titan’s…
LiteratureThe Aluminum Dagger The “urgent call” the instant, peremptory summons to professional duty is an experience that appertains to the medical rather than to the legal practitioner; and…
LiteratureThe Clever King Once upon a time, a boy named Lars lived with his sister. She worked all day long, cooking and cleaning and harvesting the fields. Lars…
LiteratureA Madison Square Arabian Night To Carson Chalmers, in his apartment near the square, Phillips brought the evening mail. Beside the routine correspondence there were two items bearing the same…
LiteratureA Little Talk About Mobs “I see,” remarked the tall gentleman in the frock coat and black slouch hat, “that another street car motorman in your city has narrowly excaped…
LiteratureA Little Local Color I mentioned to Rivington that I was in search of characteristic New York scenes and incidents something typical, I told him, without necessarily having to…
LiteratureA Lickpenny Lover There, were 3,000 girls in the Biggest Store. Masie was one of them. She was eighteen and a saleslady in the gents’ gloves. Here she…
LiteratureFour Men In A Cave The moon rested for a moment on the top of a tall pine on a hill. The little man was standing in front of the…
LiteratureA Tent In Agony A Sullivan County Tale Four men once came to a wet place in the roadless forest to fish. They pitched their tent fair upon the…
LiteratureThe Frog And His Wives Once there lived a Frog who had two wives. His first wife lived in Dumbi and the second wife lived in Dala. He himself lived…