The Girls Own Paper
Little rest could be allowed in those days to England's most gallant sons. Moore had a short time with those whom he loved best--with the mother especially, who was more to him than all the world beside--and again he was called away. In this year, 1797, a French invasion was a...
Sister Warwick was slowly rousing to the consciousness of the birth of another working-day. Her first sensation was weariness, her next a thought of surprise that the night had...
1. CHAPTER X.Little rest could be allowed in those days to England's most gallant sons. Moore had a short time with those whom he loved best--with the mother especially, who was more to him...
7. PART III.The factory at Worcester was opened in 1750-51, contemporaneously with that of Derby, the old mansion of Warmstry House being the first seat of the works. The latter passed into...
5. PART II.My last paper on the rules of Society ended with some remarks upon dinner-parties and the conversation thereat; but although the article thus finished, my observations did not,...
2. CHAPTER IX."Mrs. Saville was right--Peggy is a most expensive person!" cried Mrs. Asplin in dismay, when the bills for repairs came in, but when the Vicar suggested the advisability of a r...
3. PART V.It is often a great consolation to a girl who has but a plain face to possess a fine head of hair. One can understand how annoyed she must feel when her hair starts combing out...
6. PART III.MY DEAR DOROTHY,--So you have decided on commencing your married life in a flat--a very wise decision on your part. In the first place, in a flat you know exactly what your posi...