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  2. WHO IS HONEST?

    Many people who are considered honest would fail if they were subjected to a real test with little fear of discovery or punishment. No man or ...

    Article : 217 words
  3. Ladies' Column.

    In this trying weather a basin of good thick soup is as nourishing as any preparation of pulse or of vegetables. Soup of a substantial kind ...

    Article : 146 words
  4. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Mr. Brown had not a very good opinion of landladies in general until the other day, when he happened to see his bestowing a kindness on the ...

    Article : 106 words
  5. TALES OF THE NILE.

    It is a curious fact (says Mr. Arthur Weigall in the "Cornhill Magazine" for December) about the Egyptian peasant that he seldom knows ...

    Article : 1,236 words
  6. MIGHTIEST TELESCOPE ON EARTH.

    The great Mount Wilson telescope, 250,000 times more powerful than your eye. Its outstanding feature is its 100 inch reflector, which weighs ...

    Article : 1,447 words
  7. MISPLACED GLASSES.

    A traveller entered an inn where a Quaker sat by the fire. Lifting a pair of green spectacles and rubbing his eyes, which looked very inflamed, the, ...

    Article : 104 words
  8. PARSNIP SOUP.

    Ingredients : Three good-sized parsnips, two potatoes, one large onion. one and a half ounces of butter or substitute, one quart of water or ...

    Article : 102 words
  9. VANQUISHED RIVAL.

    "Oh, halloa, old chap. Just the man I'm looking for. Come and have dinner with me," bubbled Doglett Loose. ...

    Article : 243 words
  10. THE GREAT QUESTION.

    Private Jenks is suffering from conscience. It happened this way. His comrade Binks had received a small tin of sardines by post. He was not ...

    Article : 131 words
  11. DYNAMITE AND PEACE.

    The Huns were recently boasting that Germany was vastly superior to the rest of mankind because she had been awarded fourteen Nobel prizes, ...

    Article : 292 words
  12. A GOOD FAMILY SOUP.

    Take two pounds of coarse lean beef —shin or other portion—and half a pound or lean bacon cut into thin slices ; fry them with three slices of ...

    Article : 160 words
  13. FED UP !

    He had worked for the farmer nine years, and was apparently contented until his employer added poultry-raising to his list of activities. Then ...

    Article : 117 words
  14. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    When brooms begin to wear, cut the bristles level again, and the brush will do its work as well as ever. Always rinse black stockings in ...

    Article : 445 words
  15. THEY SAY

    There are, and there will be, no quitters among the Allies. " Never again !" has become our battle-cry.— D. Lloyd-George, M.P. ...

    Article : 330 words
  16. HOW THE HORSE SLEEPS.

    Horses when turned out to pasture are more prone to take rest lying down than when confined in stalls. but even when practically free from ...

    Article : 567 words
  17. SPOILT HIS DAY.

    The young Scot never liked his mother-in-law, and this weighed heavily on the mind of his wife, who was ill. Calling her husband to her bedside, ...

    Article : 123 words
  18. "SOME COLD."

    On the hottest day in summer a flying-man may be in the Arctic regions in ten minutes by mounting to a height of ten thousand feet. just as ...

    Article : 202 words
  19. WHY SHE OBJECTED.

    "I hear that Florrie has broken off her engagement with you, old chap," said one man to another. "Yes," replied the second. ...

    Article : 90 words
  20. OVERDOING IT.

    "A glass of beer occasionally," was the doctor's advice, but Henry Pect shook his head. Maria insisted on his being teetotal, for the duration of the ...

    Article : 281 words
  21. QUEER CAMERA OVER BATTLE FIELDS.

    When a German aeroplane on reconnaissance duty over the French lines was recently brought down by the Allies, an aerial camera of an odd ...

    Article : 246 words
  22. IN DEATH NO REFUGE.

    Actors have, as a rule, a wonderful store of stories upon which to draw, but they are by no means all so funny as that told by Mr. Walter Passmore ...

    Article : 202 words
  23. BROWN WAS COOL.

    Some time ago a party named Brown had an appointment with a man in a distant city, and when the business was transacted he was ...

    Article : 119 words
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