United States or Pitcairn Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
If the workman does not read, however, he talks. At present he talks for the most part on the pavement and in public-houses, but there is every indication that we shall see before long a rapid growth of workmen's clubs not the tea-and-coffee make-believes set up by the well-meaning, but honest, independent clubs, in every respect such as those in Pall Mall, managed by the workmen themselves, who are not, and never will become, total abstainers, but have shown themselves, up to the present moment, strangely tolerant of those weaker brethren who can only keep themselves sober by putting on the blue ribbon.
She cried all over my new dress suit the other night." Phil's heart was one gigantic ache. The thought of Carlotta in tears was almost unbearable. Carlotta his Carlotta was all sunshine and laughter. "It was like this," went on Carlotta's parent. "Her aunt told me she was going to marry young Lathrop old skin-flint tea-and-coffee Lathrop's son. I couldn't quite stomach it.
We are not about to enter into the merits of the great tea-and-coffee controversy, further than in our general caution concerning them in the chapter on Healthful Drinks; but we now proceed to treat of them as actual existences, and speak only of the modes of making the best of them.
Word Of The Day