Ice Cream Cake
As the sister of the victim, Lorraine was invited to attend the execution. She'd waited throug
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The Social Value of the College-Bred
OF WHAT USE is a college training? We who have had it seldom hear the question raised鈥攚e might
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Remarks at the Peace Banquet
I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do
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I am Doing Nothing Wrong
My father, Dale, hits on P.J. Harvey at her rock show. Actually, it is a P.J. Harvey lookalike
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Thoughts for a New Year
Most of us look away when we pass strangers. It is the expectional person who stops to help th
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Roses for Rose
Red roses were her favorites, her name was also Rose. And every year her husband sent them, ti
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Mr. Good
I could鈥檝e kicked myself for chasing a woman bass player all the way to Cincinnati: a month af
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The Story of an Hour
Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to
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Flowers and Coconut Leaves
FLOWERS and coconut leaves are daily necessities in Balinese life. Along with cooked rice, the
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Music From the Ruins
FIVE musicians in neat evening dress were singing Mozart's Requiem in a bombed-out library, or
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Shall we choose death?
I am speaking not as a Briton, not as a European, not as a member of a western democracy, but
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About Smells
In a recent issue of the "Independent," the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, of Brooklyn, has the foll
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Advice to Girls
Mark Twain delivered this speech on June 9, 1909, at the graduation ceremony of Misses Tewksbu
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Advice for Good Little Girls
Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This
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Three Days to see
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf f
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Cannibalism in the Cars
I visited St. Louis lately, and on my way west, after changing cars at Terre Haute, Indiana, a
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What is a great book?
There is no end to the making of books. Nor does there seem to be any end to the making of lis
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The Cloud
1 I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,2 From the seas and the streams;3 I bear lig
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A Little Girl Lost
Children of the future age,Reading this indignant page,Know that in a former timeLove, sweet l
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A Little Boy Lost
'Nought loves another as itself,Nor venerates another so,Nor is it possible to thoughtA greate
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A Red, Red Rose
O, my luve is like a red, red rose,That's newly sprung in June,O, my luve is like the melodie,
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Of Envy
There be none of the affections, which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch, but love and e
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I Love You
I always thought thatour kind of relationshiponly existed in dreams - In the pastI did not wan
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The last tape
The bustle of the hospital was a welcome distraction as I opened my new patient's chart and he
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A Friend
He wasn't a guy of big words, and he seemed to live entirely in his own world. I remember that
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Being humble
If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff, even though he be
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A Day at The Tradition
Several years ago I was diagnosed with cancer. It was the most difficult time I have ever face
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To Build a Fire
DAY had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the ma
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Inspiration from Life
Taking the first step How will you know you can succeed at something if you don't give it a tr
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Never Too Old to Live Your Dream
The first day of school our professor introduced himself to our chemistry class and challenged
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Business Partners
Fink, poor fellow, was a widower, and each of his daughters had said that she would rather be
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