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  2. AUSTRALIA DAY. MEMORIES.

    To look back fifty years on Australia Day, wagging one's head reminiscently as a cavalcade of notable persons of yester-year passes across the screen of ...

    Article : 1,669 words
  3. GIRLS IN WAR.

    To-day, January 3, I am leaving Spain laden like a mail van. The postal department has gone to pieces—the rebels have scored there. Letters can ...

    Article : 1,034 words
  4. A LOG SHACK AMONG SUN-DRENCHED GUMS.

    Wrapped up in this fine study taken in wild country in North Australia, is the spirit or the great outdoor life. Henry Lawson caught it, so did Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Kendall, A. B. Paterson, and most of the other Australians who have written about their country. But they who know it best of all, perhaps, are the lonely, inarticulate stockmen, the drover, the boundary rider, and the sturdy pioneer. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 79 words
  5. PAINTED MOTION

    Instinctively expressing thoughts and emotions through the medium of physical movements—which, as they attained co-ordination and rhythmic repetition ...

    Article : 1,114 words
  6. ART OF MAKING OMELETTES.

    The finest omelette I have ever tasted was a fines herbes at the Cafe Moulin Rouge. on the banks of the Loire. That morning we had just ridden fifteen ...

    Article : 1,442 words
  7. THESCHOOLCANE

    A day Or so ago I watched a, carpenter rip up the fifty-year-old flooring of one of my classrooms. "Save me any canes you may happen ...

    Article : 917 words
  8. Children's Poetry.

    It twists and it chatters, it gurgles and turns, Deep down in the valley the river's soul burns; It chases, and chuckles and chatters again, It leaps and it bounds down valley and glen ...

    Article : 95 words
  9. WOOD-ENGRAVER.

    A "mystery" artist of old Sydney was Walter George Mason, a wood-engraver. Not many persons know much about him, and those who do want to ...

    Article : 935 words
  10. CURIOSITY HOUSE.

    Probably one of the queerest cottages in Australia is to be found at Ballarat, Victoria. A retired bricklayer was responsible for its decoration, and it is ...

    Article : 549 words
  11. IF I HAD A GARDEN.

    O I wish I had a garden Of lovely scented flowers, I'd work in it and dig in it Through all the sunny hours. ...

    Article : 89 words
  12. CHOPPY SEAS.

    Can you feel the sway, the rock, the sway, The surge, the smack, and the white-flung spray? Can you feel the boat all alive beneath you ...

    Article : 181 words
  13. FLOODS TERROR.

    The appalling cataclysm which has been the experience this week of thousands of residents in the southern and middle-western areas of the United ...

    Article : 457 words
  14. FAVOURITES.

    Bobby loves his engine, Baby loves a ball, Auntie loves a motor car Best and most of all. ...

    Article : 81 words
  15. REGATTA GATETY 70 YEARS AGO.

    In crinolines and sideboards, twirling ruffed farthing parasols and strolling in cuffless trousers and frock coats, Sydney people in the 60's made the regatta on Australia Day a high day. (See article, "Australia Day Memories," this page.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 44 words
  16. A TEST MATCH "IF."

    If you can play the noble game of cricket In such a way that wins a world-wide fame, If, like a hero, you can guard your wicket, And all the while add records to your name; ...

    Article : 266 words
  17. TREASURE TROVE.

    The gold of the clouds when the moon rides high, The sunrise gold on the foaming weir, And the golden dreams when I draw you nigh, ...

    Article : 47 words
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