A Study of DutyIIt was Lady Windermeres last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speakers Levee in their stars and ...Full Article
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone. To this end she had founded the Lunch Club, an association composed of herself and several o...Full Article
IHubert Granice, pacing the length of his pleasant lamp-lit library, paused to compare his watch with the clock on the chimney-piece. Three minutes to eight. ...Full Article
In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friends friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requ...Full Article
[Note - This is not a fancy sketch. I got it from a clergyman who was an instructor at Woolwich forty years ago, and who vouched for its truth.]It was at a banquet in London in honour of one of the tw...Full Article
The little seaside village of Sponkannis lies so quietly upon a protected spot on our Atlantic coast that it makes no more stir in the world than would a pebble which, held between ones finger and thu...Full Article
I am in the power of a mosquito. Were he so inclined, he would probably kill me. Luckily, until now, he has not abused his power. In the exercise of his sway over me he is moderate, not the least bit ...Full Article
Im not very sociable, and often I forget about my friends. After letting two years go by, on one of those January days in1979 - theyre so hot - I went to visit a friend who suffers from somewhat unjus...Full Article
Theres a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella. Its exactly five years today that hes been hitting me on the head with his umbrella. At first I couldnt stand it; now Im used to i...Full Article
1My wifes name is Graciela; mine is Arthur. «Theyre such a charming couple,» our friends are always saying. Theyre right, we are a bright, young, elegant, Cosmopolitan married couple, good...Full Article
The nickname parakeets is often given to those quite harmless, short-lived, tiny green orthoptera that, on summer nights, keep flying round and round lights. Their movements do not appear to be govern...Full Article
For some time now, my bookshelves have been filled to capacity and overflowing. I should have had them enlarged, but wood and labor are expensive, and I prefer to put off these expenses in favor of ot...Full Article
I have a friend who must be the sweetest, shyest person in the world. His name is brittle and ancient (Luke), his age modestly intermediate (forty). He is rather short and skinny, has a thin moustache...Full Article
People are surprised, fearful and even indignant over the considerable proliferation of scorpions which threatens Buenos Aires, a city which until quite recently had been entirely free of this particu...Full Article
My friends say I am very suggestible. I think theyre right. As evidence of this, they bring up a little incident that I was involved in last Thursday. That morning I was readi...Full Article
It was about ten oclock on a Saturday morning. My eldest son, whos the devil incarnate, thoughtlessly scrawled a curlicue on the door of the neighboring apartment with a piece of wire. Nothing alarmin...Full Article
According to very diverse -- and always very reliable -- sources, the Chastisement by the Lambs is becoming increasingly common in several parts of Buenos Aires and the surrounding area. &...Full Article
This was a very honest beggar. One day he knocked at the door of a luxurious mansion. The butler came out and said, Yes, sir. What do you wish, my good man? ...Full Article
In his brief prologue to Stelzvögel, professor Franz Klamm explains that Dr. Ludwig Boitus travelled from Gottingen to Huayllén-Naquén with the sole purpose of studying in situ the assimilative a...Full Article
A good system for revealing as yet unknown facets in man consists of placing the subject in a totally new situation and observing his reactions. For example: if I make a phone call and I hear a voice ...Full Article
