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  2. A HOUSE BOAT AS A HOME.

    It is so quiet all about Pearl Bay, where a houseboat, moored in the sheltering curve, has been my home for three months. It makes me rather ...

    Article : 1,565 words
  3. SNOW IN ART.

    Can the high-keyed harmonies of falling snow-flakes or deep, fallen snows be adequately transcribed into either human language or painted ...

    Article : 1,064 words
  4. VISIT TO CAIRO.

    It was during the trip to England in 1911 far the coronation of George V and Queen Mary that the name of "Elliot Smith" became prominent in my mind, ...

    Article : 1,414 words
  5. DISCOVERING NEW COASTAL CHARM.

    A fine, sultry, heat-hazed morning. The bows were cutting a furrow through the sleepy, leaden-green waters of a broad estuary. No sign of humanity ...

    Article : 1,377 words
  6. A VILLAGE SMITHY UNDER SNOW.

    Hans Andersen could not have described a more delightful winter scene in any of his children's tales than this one in a quiet village in Ober Engadin, Switzerland, where the snow seemingly transforms the cottages, the firs and the smithy into the ornaments of fairyland. (See article "Snow in Art" on this page.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 58 words
  7. Children's Poetry

    A-wandering I'd long to go, And cross the mountains high; A-wandering I'd long to go, Without a care or sigh. ...

    Article : 94 words
  8. "COO-EE" BIRD.

    Seldom is a bird the source of discussion round a bridge table, but I am told that at more than one bridge party in the northern suburbs lately ...

    Article : 853 words
  9. SCIENCE TO-DAY.

    Science is not in charge of the world in spite of the fact that all sorts of involved mechanism and processes have come into modern life, ostensibly to ...

    Article : 588 words
  10. LIFE IN CHINA.

    In an office in Nanking sits an Australian whose life work is devoted to the advancement of China. His name is William Henry Donald. He is an ...

    Article : 794 words
  11. ON RETURNING.

    The country air again is sweet, The bushland calls; And moonlight on the sleeping grass My heart enthralls. ...

    Article : 80 words
  12. SPRING.

    O, the whispering trees and the murmuring leaves, And the sweet buttercups on the hill; O, the glint of the dew, and the blossoms so ...

    Article : 111 words
  13. THE LILAC FAIRIES.

    The Lilac Fairies passed last night— Our jacaranda's all abloom— They paused amidst the garden's gloom A moment, on their homeward flight. ...

    Article : 117 words
  14. STONEHENGE.

    We stood on Salisbury Plain, a little distance from those colossal relics of pre-historic mystery. They had told us that dawn on the plain was a ...

    Article : 376 words
  15. THE TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION.

    Not only artists and students admire the symbolic statuary outside the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne; most visitors do. Mr. Paul Montford, the designing sculptor, conveys in this group a triumphal procession, the child being introduced to represent contributions by children. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 47 words
  16. BELL BIRDS NEAR MERIMBULA.

    Beside a crystal waterfall, Entranced, I heard the bellbird's call— Far adown the windless glades, In secluded forest shades, ...

    Article : 185 words
  17. VANTAGE POINTS.

    If I had never climbed that needled peak. Which holds the sunbeams threaded to its eye, Snapped from a meteor's edge And flung on earth's last ledge ...

    Article : 191 words
  18. BOUILLABAISSE.

    What do they put in Bouillabaisse? I often ask, but no one knows, Or, if they do. decline to face. An inventory of rows and rows ...

    Article : 104 words
  19. DREAM TRAVELS.

    [?] at my window I can travel far, [?] day-dreams wafting as a falling star, [?] snow tracts forming round the stately [?] firs, ...

    Article : 81 words
  20. THE VALENTINE.

    Lilies and roses and true lovers' posies, And Cupid with bow and dart, The gallant composes, his secret discloses; Lilies and roses and true lovers' posies; ...

    Article : 54 words
  21. BY NIGHT.

    Last night a fleecy cloud, obsessed with wanderlust, Sped o'er the sky to gaze upon the moon; Enchanting moments flitted by too soon ...

    Article : 40 words
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