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  3. FIVE TO ONE IN THE AIR.

    Easter Sunday was one of the most beautiful days I have ever seen, and we felt that at last the gods of the weather were going to smile on a ...

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  4. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    Fifty years ago a regiment of Amazons enrolled to assist Paraguay in her battle against Brazil. The force numbered 4,000, and were ...

    Article : 140 words
  5. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    The school instructor was teaching a class in which there were some foreign pupils, whose vocabularies were not very extensive. ...

    Article : 70 words
  6. INDEPENDENCE DAYS.

    Men have fought and died for liberty in all ages and in all countries, and yet America seems to be the only nation which observes an ...

    Article : 232 words
  7. PAINT AND LONG LIFE.

    The doyen of the Royal Academy is Mr. B. W. Leader, the landscape painter, who, althogh eighty-six, is still going strong, and painting his ...

    Article : 230 words
  8. AIRMEN'S PET WOOD.

    The most valuable tree in the world to-day is undoubtedly the humble Sikta, or silver spruce, which is found growing by the million in ...

    Article : 408 words
  9. "EXCLAMATORY" WAS RIGHT.

    The washerwoman was complaining to the lady of the house about the health of her husband. "What's the matter with him?" ...

    Article : 147 words
  10. OUR INCOMPARABLE EMBASSY.

    The British Embassy in Paris is one of the most remarkable buildings in the French capital. In a city which is destitute of parks ...

    Article : 486 words
  11. A NIGHT TORPEDO ATTACK.

    Slowly, silently, the long, low shape of the torpedo-boat-destroyer stole round the breakwater, not a single light showing, her length ...

    Article : 678 words
  12. A TRAGEDY OF WIRELESS

    I have just stepped ashore from a New York liner, and, because of my interest in wireless telegraphy. I was permitted to spend most of my ...

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  13. SAME THING—ONLY DIFFERENT.

    Everybody agreed that he was an awful bore, and he would keep you for hours talking about his achievements. ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. IT WAS CORRECT.

    This teacher was having some trouble with a certain pupil in grammar. "Now, little girl, would it be ...

    Article : 60 words
  15. SUNDAY BATTLES.

    Some of the fiercest engagements of the European war were fought on Sunday, the so-called Day[?] of Rest for the Hun, with all his cant, seems ...

    Article : 244 words
  16. RATHER DIFFERENT.

    Bill Bashem was not a safe person to deal with. On the contrary, he dealt with safes; but the lady visitor to the slums was not to know ...

    Article : 71 words
  17. THEIR JOB.

    There was news to impart, and William Tell was the person to impart it. Said he to a friend: "Under this calling-up business, I ...

    Article : 76 words
  18. SHE WASN'T ENGAGED.

    Old Goldroks' chauffeur had joined up, and he had decided that now he would enlist the services of a lady driver for his car. When the young ...

    Article : 95 words
  19. A FOND FATHER AT 102[?]

    A father at eighty-four—such is the recent record of Mr. Jackson, an English farmer. Men more patriarchal still have ...

    Article : 354 words
  20. POILUS' PAY.

    Until recently the French soldier's pay was almost a negligible quantity. Nominally, he was supposed to ...

    Article : 80 words
  21. WAS IT A MATCH?

    Desmond Doughnut had been markedly attentive the day before, so when Flossie Flatfoot saw him coming up "the drive" she was all in a ...

    Article : 102 words
  22. CRIMINALS MAKE GOOD.

    Crime decreased greatly during the war, the reason, being that a considerable proportion of men belonging to the professional criminal ...

    Article : 270 words
  23. TOO MUCH DUST.

    Do you breathe air or dust? If you live in the open country, probably air, but if you live in a city you are probably breathing an ...

    Article : 216 words
  24. ALL EMERGENCIES.

    Two war-workers were discussing slackers. "Bothered with time-wasting callers, are you? Why don't you try my ...

    Article : 98 words
  25. TAKEN AT HIS WORD.

    Mike entered the grocer's shop, and the man behind the counter gave him an approving look. "Morning, Mike!" he said. "I hear ...

    Article : 83 words
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