item: #1 of 11 id: 11660 author: Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) title: Ethel Morton's Enterprise date: None words: 58819 flesch: 84 summary: Tell us, begged Ethel Blue, who was expending special care on digging up this contribution to the garden as if to make amends for the unkindness of the scientific world, and Ethel Brown repeated the poem beginning When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know, The yellow violet's modest bell Peeps from last year's leaves below. murmured Ethel Brown to Ethel Blue. keywords: bed; blue; brown; clark; club; day; della; dorothy; emerson; emily; ethel; ethel blue; ethel brown; flowers; garden; girls; good; grandfather; helen; house; james; know; leaf; leaves; look; man; margaret; mary; miss; mother; mrs; new; people; pink; place; plants; right; roger; room; smith; stanley; summer; table; thought; time; water; way; yellow cache: 11660.txt plain text: 11660.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 12677 author: Ferber, Edna title: Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock date: None words: 26835 flesch: 90 summary: It was about the time that Jock McChesney had got over the novelty of paying for his own clothes, and had begun to talk business in a slightly patronizing way to his clever and secretly amused mother, Mrs. Emma McChesney, secretary of the T.A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company, that Sam Hupp noticed a rather cocky over-assurance in Jock's attitude toward the world in general. Say, are you related to Mrs. Emma McChesney, of the Featherloom Skirt Company? Slightly. keywords: advertising; berg; buck; business; company; desk; door; emma; emma mcchesney; eyes; face; good; griebler; hand; head; hupp; jock; jock mcchesney; look; man; mcchesney; men; mother; mrs; office; room; sam; t.a; time; years cache: 12677.txt plain text: 12677.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 13034 author: Weston, George title: Mary Minds Her Business date: None words: 64195 flesch: 86 summary: Might I ask, Miss Mary, of what nature is the subject? And seeing that she hesitated he added, first looking cautiously over his shoulder, Is it anything, for instance, to do wi' Mr. Woodward? Your grandfather's idea, Miss Mary. keywords: archey; burdon; car; cordelia; course; day; eyes; factory; girl; good; half; hand; helen; home; josiah; judge; life; little; look; love; man; mary; mind; miss; morning; new; office; old; patty; paul; right; room; saw; spencer; stanley; things; thought; time; uncle; wally; want; way; women; work; young cache: 13034.txt plain text: 13034.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 22844 author: Mitford, Mary Russell title: Miss Philly Firkin, The China-Woman date: None words: 3634 flesch: 54 summary: To be sure, her closest intimates, those very dear friends, who as our confidence gives them the opportunity, are so obliging as to watch our weaknesses and report our foibles,--certain of these bosom companions had been heard to hint, that Miss Philly, who had refused two or three good matches in her bloom, repented her of this cruelty, and would probably be found less obdurate now that suitors had ceased to offer. At last, however, came a real and substantial grievance, an actionable trespass; and although Miss Philly was a considerable loser by the mischance, and a lawsuit is always rather a questionable remedy for pecuniary damage, yet such was the keenness of her hatred towards poor Jem, that I am quite convinced that in her inmost heart (although being an excellent person in her way, it is doubtful whether she told herself the whole truth in the matter) she rejoiced at a loss which would enable her to take such signal vengeance over her next-door enemy. keywords: china; dick; firkin; jem; miss; street; tyler; wolfe cache: 22844.txt plain text: 22844.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 3016 author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins title: What Diantha Did date: None words: 58634 flesch: 86 summary: ***** “Wasn't it great!” said Mrs. Weatherstone; “I was there you see,--I'd come to call on Mrs. Bell--she's a dear,--and in came Mrs. Thaddler--” “Mrs. Thaddler?” Mrs. Bell would agree to this, and quite swelled with happiness and pride; but Mrs. Weatherstone, watching narrowly, was not satisfied. keywords: bell; business; child; club; course; day; dear; diantha; father; food; girl; good; hand; head; home; hours; house; labor; look; love; madam; miss; money; mother; mrs; new; place; porne; right; room; ross; table; thaddler; thing; thought; time; warden; way; weatherstone; week; woman; work; years; young cache: 3016.txt plain text: 3016.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 38029 author: Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) title: Three Little Women: A Story for Girls date: None words: 52327 flesch: 87 summary: I want to go out; I want to go out; I want to go out, _out_, OUT! cried little Jean Carruth, pressing her face against the window-pane until from the outside her nose appeared like a bit of white paper stuck fast to the glass. I'm just a little over ten, answered Jean, looking up and answering his smile with one equally frank and trustful, for little Jean Carruth did not understand the meaning of embarrassment. keywords: baltie; business; candy; carruth; chapter; constance; dat; day; dear; dollars; eleanor; eyes; face; family; fer; girl; good; gwine; hand; head; home; horse; jean; know; little; mammy; man; miss; moment; mother; mrs; pike; place; right; riveredge; room; stuyvesant; ter; things; thought; time; way; woman; years cache: 38029.txt plain text: 38029.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 39515 author: Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington) title: Mrs. Thompson: A Novel date: None words: 105777 flesch: 85 summary: They stopped at an inn, thirty miles from Mallingbridge, and drank tea--that is to say, Mrs. Marsden drank tea and Mr. Marsden drank something else, for the good of the house. Mrs. Thompson walked away, thinking about Mr. Marsden. keywords: believe; bence; big; business; collins; course; day; days; dear; door; enid; eyes; face; girl; glass; good; half; hands; head; home; house; husband; jane; kenion; life; london; look; looking; love; ma'am; mallingbridge; man; marsden; mears; mind; miss; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; people; prentice; right; room; round; shop; street; table; things; thompson; thought; time; town; voice; want; way; white; wife; wish; woman; words; work; world; yates; young cache: 39515.txt plain text: 39515.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 40179 author: Speed, Nell title: The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp date: None words: 55558 flesch: 89 summary: Miss Helen Carter from Dr. George Wright RICHMOND, VA., SEPTEMBER .., 19.. CHAPTER II THE RETURN Oh, Douglas, I'm all of a tremble! declared Helen Carter, as she knotted her jaunty scarlet tie and settled her gray felt hat at exactly the proper angle. keywords: bobby; camp; carter; course; day; douglas; father; frank; girls; good; helen; kind; let; lewis; lil; look; lucy; man; miss; money; mother; mountain; mrs; new; page; skeeter; spring; susan; things; thought; time; tit; tom; tucker; uns; want; way; week; wright cache: 40179.txt plain text: 40179.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 42015 author: Wheeler, Ruthe S. title: Helen in the Editor's Chair date: None words: 46856 flesch: 87 summary: Who's calling? Mustering up her courage, Helen replied, this is Helen Blair, editor of the _Rolfe Herald_. Involuntarily Helen reached out to clasp Margaret's hand and when she failed to find it, turned to the spot where Margaret had been sitting beside her a few minutes before. keywords: blair; boat; dad; day; doctor; editor; father; going; half; helen; helen blair; herald; home; lake; margaret; miss; mother; mrs; news; office; page; paper; press; preston; queen; rand; right; rolfe; room; run; school; stevens; story; time; tom; way; week; work cache: 42015.txt plain text: 42015.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 43703 author: Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William) title: The Business of Life date: None words: 121056 flesch: 85 summary: Can you not imagine a more desirable marriage for a girl? Don't you _like_ Desboro? he demanded. Good-bye, Mr. Desboro. keywords: arms; aunt; business; cairns; care; clydesdale; collection; course; cynthia; day; dear; desboro; door; elena; eyes; face; girl; good; half; hammerton; hand; hannah; head; heart; house; husband; jacqueline; james; jim; kind; ledyard; left; life; lips; look; love; man; matter; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; nevers; new; night; office; people; real; room; rose; self; silence; silverwood; smile; sort; things; thought; time; town; voice; waudle; way; white; wife; wish; woman; world; young cache: 43703.txt plain text: 43703.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 453 author: Ferber, Edna title: Emma McChesney and Co. date: None words: 43998 flesch: 88 summary: When she left, little Emma McChesney was sleeping, by a curious coincidence, as she had been when Emma arrived, so that she could not have the satisfaction of a last pressure of the lips against the rose-petal cheek. Whatever Emma McChesney Buck did, she did well. keywords: a. buck; buck; business; day; days; door; emma; emma mcchesney; eyes; face; girl; good; great; hand; head; hortense; jock; life; look; mcchesney buck; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; office; orton; pages; room; skirt; t. a.; thing; time; way; wells; white; woman; work; years cache: 453.txt plain text: 453.txt