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  2. THE ELECTION OF A PRESIDENT.

    When Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Wendell Willkie fight out the Presidential issue next week it is unlikely that the result will be attended by the tumults and fatalities that were usual in Lincoln's day. Presidential elections are not ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 835 words
  3. THE CONCERT SEASON.

    My first concert season in Australia has now almost come to an end and perhaps the opportunity has arrived for a summing-up, in ...

    Article : 1,073 words
  4. A MURRUMBIDGEE LANDSCAPE.

    Jugiong Hill, from which this picture was taken, commands a wide vista of pastoral country. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 21 words
  5. THE NEW POOR OF ENGLAND "CARRY ON."

    A series of thumps in the kidneys has kept us in a perpetual stagger since this war started. Invasions, infiltrations, capitulations... But we are still on our feet, if a trifle bewildered. To retain the perpendicular in a war like this demands crazy adjustments. One thump is a bill for eleven million pounds a day, a figure so fantastic to us ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,503 words
  6. THROUGH SYDNEY IN A HANSOM.

    The hansom stood forlorn, a superannuated anomaly, derided alike by the Neon lights of modern Sydney the taxis the tall ...

    Article : 765 words
  7. THAT QUEST FOR AN "AVERAGE."

    Mr. Neville Cardus has been, 1 suspect, the victim of a plot: of a foul, or dastardly, plot. Writing last week in these columns of his efforts to discover the average Australian, he reported, as typical prizes in his quest: one septuagenarian ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,066 words
  8. SURF-RIDERS.

    Oh surf-riders breaking the turbulent waters who stand Poised on the lovely insolence of a wave, Like birds in the rush of the wind and, ...

    Article : 144 words
  9. BRAINS AND WILL.

    A first-class will and second-class brains will beat the first-class brains and secondclass will every time. ...

    Article : 23 words
  10. A Naturalist's Notebook.

    Brightly plumaged female birds make some effort to conceal their revealing colours during nesting time lest these should attract some ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,187 words
  11. SURF CREWS HAVE THEIR FUN.

    The fact that surf clubs carried out 2,831 rescues on Australian beaches last season bringing their total during the last 10 years to ...

    Article : 420 words
  12. "MOOLBONG" OR J. J. JOHNSON?

    "Missus! Wantem you a minit, Missus!" This from Moolbong, aboriginal witch-doctor, brought up to date. A battered Panama hat ...

    Article : 345 words
  13. WHAT IS A "SKUA?"

    One of the deadliest types of plane engaged in aerial warfare in Europe is the dive-bomber, a small, fast plane, whose main destructive ...

    Article : 155 words
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  15. A TOAST TO THE R.A.F.

    I give you pilots and men that fly. Soft, wind and a clear sky, I give you planes and men that die. High wind and an engine's cry; ...

    Article : 123 words
  16. SUBSTITUTES FOR BRIARS.

    The French briar has been famous for many years, only because Australians have not bothered to investigate our own timbers ...

    Article : 218 words
  17. OLD COLONIAL HOUSES.

    The larger ot these houses at Campbelltown was for a time the Railway Hotel, it was built about a century ago, and with the smaller house next to it survives as an interesting example of early colonial architecture. (Sketch by Mr. A. N. Clarke.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 48 words
  18. A RIDDLE.

    Mankind has progressed like a conqueror. We're told. His enterprise contented not With solving nearly every mystery Of earth, and sea, and atmosphere has ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. HELEN SIMPSON.

    William Stewart in his sketch of the late Helen Simpson's work in the "Herald of October 19 alludes to "A Man of His Time" and "Philosophies in Little" as ...

    Article : 128 words
  20. REPOSITORY.

    In New York City mail boxes are favourite repositories for criminal evidence. Pickpockets often drop wallets—minus ...

    Article : 71 words
  21. PECUNIARY PEERAGE

    "The fluidity of English society has been a constant theme of social historians. The ascent of individuals and families from the lowest social groups to the highest has ...

    Article : 81 words
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