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"Unfurnished Rooms wanted (two or three), with attendance; one child, 4½ years; at business all day."

Provincial Paper.


LOVE'S HANDICAP.

[A daily paper points out that many girls find their sweethearts in print, and expresses the hope that when "a real man comes along he may be as brave and tender, as cheery and clean-living," as these heroes of fiction.]

Dear lady, put down for a minute

That book which you eagerly scan,

Intent upon finding within it

Your perfect ideal of a man;