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  2. MENDING BROKEN SKULLS.

    The replacing of destroyed portions of skull with layers of cartilage taken from the patient's own ribs in one of the latest methods of healing war ...

    Article : 191 words
  3. FERTILISING EXPERIMENT.

    A suggestion has been made that farmers put crbonic acid gas (CO2) into their land as a chenp and valuable fertiliser. ...

    Article : 569 words
  4. WHO FIRST CAMOUFLAGED?

    A word that has quite a vogue at the moment, but was probably never heard of until the outbreak of way, is "ca[?]onflage":—the art of making ...

    Article : 184 words
  5. GERMAN COLONIAL METHODS.

    A significant illustration of the spirit and methods of German colonisation is to be found in the facts given by Flect-Paymaster Cyril Cox, ...

    Article : 1,028 words
  6. FEEDING THE ARMY.

    The problem of supplying meat to the Army is one of considerable difficulty. The official scale allows [?] of [?]at per man per day to the ...

    Article : 565 words
  7. SURPRISED MEDICAL BOARD.

    A Canadian Army Medical Board was in consultation on a soldier whose disease had baffled the regimental doctor. Unusual symptoma ...

    Article : 140 words
  8. BEING BOMBED.

    If a bomb be dropped from an aeroplane 10,000ft. up, and travelling at a speed of 100 miles an hour, it reaches the ground a considerable ...

    Article : 350 words
  9. KEEP OFF THE —!

    Roforna, New Zealand, is the centre of the volcanic region, and the whole of this region for miles around is in a state of thermal activity, in fact, ...

    Article : 301 words
  10. "TOO FAT TO RUN."

    Lord Esther, in a recent letter from France, relates the following excellent story about the French General Grossetti, who was buried ...

    Article : 517 words
  11. A MATTER OF COLOUR.

    "The only thing I find to say against you, Jane," said the mistress "is that your washing bill is far too much. Last week you had six blouses ...

    Article : 171 words
  12. IT WASN'T CRICKET.

    "How did your, daughter pass her examination?" asked one mother of another. "Pass!" was the answer. "She ...

    Article : 138 words
  13. HINTS ON FLAX CULTIVATION WHEN GROWN FOR BOTH FIBRE AND SEED.

    In view of the the many inquiries recently received regarding flax cultivation, it is considered advisable to give for the present a few brief hints ...

    Article : 535 words
  14. ONE-HANDED TYPISTS.

    Sir Arthur Pearson, describing, at the Inter-Allied Conference on Disablement, the training and re-education of blind ex-service men at St. ...

    Article : 111 words
  15. UNEXPECTED TREASURE.

    It would be interesting to know the name of the most unlooked-for book encountered at the front. One that caused wonder to an orderly officer ...

    Article : 96 words
  16. SGT.-MAJOR FLORA SANDES.

    Sgt.-Major Flora Sandes, of the Servian Army, the only British woman who has fought in the ranks in the present war, left Waterloo ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. ARMY OF TEA DRINKERS.

    Tea is the favourite British drink in Mesopotamia. The British soldier in the Y.M.C.A. canteens there, says the "Englishman," will drink tea at ...

    Article : 158 words
  18. AN OPTICAL ILLUSION.

    A private, somewhere in France, reported sick, with loss of sight. The medical officer went through the form of testing, placing the letters A, B, C ...

    Article : 127 words
  19. MORAL SUASION.

    "Bless mw!" said Tommy's grandfather. "Do you mean to say that your teachers never thrash you?" "Never!" replied Tommy. "We ...

    Article : 70 words
  20. THE VALUED SAFETY PIN.

    From the Red Cross canteens behind the lines in France comes the report that safety pins are among the articles most eagerly sought by the ...

    Article : 65 words
  21. FOR A WAGER.

    "What's the matter with this [?]s shoes?" asked the village blacksmith. "I put them on day before yesterday, and they look all right to me." ...

    Article : 107 words
  22. NERVOUS SHOCK FOR POISON.

    "Shock retards the action of "drugs," says "Revae De Medicine." "Frogs in a state of shock from a blow on the head [?]an electric shocks ...

    Article : 65 words
  23. TWIG-LIKE.

    During a brief visit to the editorial rooms, Jones remarked:—"Do you know, I fancy I have quite a literary bent" ...

    Article : 49 words
  24. THE BIG NOISE.

    Reports have been received of fighting on Monte Piano, Monte Cello, and Monte Piccolo.—Despatch from Rome. ...

    Article : 31 words
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