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  3. MIRACLE OF MODERN SURGERY

    In the ordinary way, when a patient is brought into one of the big hospitals with, say, a bullet, or other foreign-substance embedded in ...

    Article : 260 words
  4. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    "My husband considered a very long time before he proposed to me. he was very careful." "Ah, it's always those careful ...

    Article : 57 words
  5. THE MID-DAY SIESTA.

    The light lay in streaks and stripes of black, and brown, and white, and tawny under the euphorbia-trees— most like the colour of a zebra's ...

    Article : 847 words
  6. "GOING OVER."

    The "Stand-to" came, and we all braced up. The artillery grew in in-" tensity, and by the light of dawn we saw casualties carried past. ...

    Article : 1,532 words
  7. POST-OFFICE DETECTIVES.

    The war placed a big strain upon the staff of detectives employed by the post-office to keep an eye on postal employees for dishonesty. ...

    Article : 179 words
  8. WE'RE ALL LOP-SIDED!

    Are we really lop-sided? We are, every mother's son—and daughter—of us! It comes as a bit of a shock to a ...

    Article : 334 words
  9. SWINDLED.

    The penny tickets for the Pony-and-Trap Raffle were selling in thousands. McGregor wasn't having any, however. He called the whole thing a ...

    Article : 119 words
  10. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    Brother Jonathan, the popular nickname for the United States, arose out of the person of Jonathan Trumbull, the Governor of ...

    Article : 173 words
  11. NO ENCOURAGEMENT.

    For the first three years of their married life the wile's mother had lived with the young couple. Then one morning, without even stopping ...

    Article : 141 words
  12. FORTUNE FOR OPENING A GATE

    A Derby woman recently received a legacy of £100 "in remembrance of a bunch of flowers." Romantic rewards for little acts of ...

    Article : 506 words
  13. ROCK-GIRT HELIGOLAND.

    There is an enormous amount of nonsense talked about Heligoland, especially by people who, even if they can locate the island on the map, ...

    Article : 619 words
  14. LISTENING?

    There is a species of sentry groups employed near the trenches. They are called "listening patrols," and their duties are to be always, on the ...

    Article : 84 words
  15. PIG-WORSHIP.

    The domestication of animals seems to have begun in animal-worship. A tribe would take the animal which it worshiped into its midst, as a ...

    Article : 177 words
  16. PLAYING POSTMAN.

    Little Willie, age six, was missed by his mother one day, for some time, and when he reappeared she asked: ...

    Article : 439 words
  17. THE STICK HABIT.

    Why carry a stick? On the face of it, there are few habits more absurd. A stick does not help you along (unless you are a wounded soldier, or ...

    Article : 190 words
  18. GETTING FIDO'S WOOL OUT.

    A valuable source of clothing lies on the back of our friend the dog, and this can be taken away without injuring him physically in the ...

    Article : 175 words
  19. LUCKY SLIPS.

    It is surprising how many useful things come into general use simply by some slip or inadvertency. Blotting-paper, for instance, was the ...

    Article : 227 words
  20. WAR CALCULATIONS.

    A statement has lately been made to the effect that the war has cost all the nations engaged on either side the sum of £32,000,000,000. Such ...

    Article : 194 words
  21. TWIN VEGETABLES.

    Freaks of Nature are not confined solely to the animal kingdom. Nature students and horticulturists frequently make strange discoveries when the ...

    Article : 186 words
  22. FILMS BY WIRELESS.

    The progress which has been made in cinematography during the last few years in nothing to the developments which experts confidently ...

    Article : 145 words
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