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  2. HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR LIFE?

    How much time do you spend in talking? According to a recent estimate, taking the average life as seventy years, we spend thirteen years ...

    Article : 123 words
  3. WEAK POINT OF BIG TALLIES.

    Many of the sheep station owners in Australia have become convinced that the encouragement of big shearing tallies is a serious mistake, and a new ...

    Article : 528 words
  4. BURIED TREASURE AND ITS LURE.

    Almost every week there is a new tale of men of daring setting out to find buried treasure in one part of the world or another. Enormous sums of ...

    Article : 829 words
  5. TOILET HINTS.

    The first secret of keeping a youthful appearance is not to worry, and, above all, not to worry over petty things. It is the continual fretting ...

    Article : 442 words
  6. THE WHY OF VEGETABLES.

    Why are vegetables needed in the diet?—They supply mineral salts, vitamins; water and cellulose. Is a strictly vegetable diet well ...

    Article : 185 words
  7. PINEAPPLE SWEETS.

    Pineapple Custard.—To 2 ozs. each of flour, butter and castor sugar allow three-quarter pint of milk, 2 eggs and half a tin of pineapple. Melt the ...

    Article : 425 words
  8. BUS MANNERS IN CAIRO.

    The buses of Cairo are divided into two compartments, first and second class. The second class, being the cheaper, is the more used by soldiers, ...

    Article : 286 words
  9. TO FAIL AT DAIRYING.

    There,is a variety of practices conducive to failure at dairying. The following were enumerated in an American paper years ago, but they may still ...

    Article : 184 words
  10. DAIRY TEMPERAMENT.

    On field days with live stock one usually hears demonstrators refer to the "dairy temperament" of cows. This means the stimulus to convert the ...

    Article : 143 words
  11. THIS PLASTIC AGE.

    A powerful new challenge to many of our older industries has arisen. Plastic materials are now, according to one expert, displacing 100,000 tons ...

    Article : 202 words
  12. THE CULTIVATED ROSE.

    The first cultivated rose is said to have been planted in Britain in A.D. 1522. The damask rose was brought from France in 1573, the moss rose ...

    Article : 51 words
  13. COIN CURIOS.

    Certain pennies are at a premium, highly valued by numismatists. As recently as 1933 only six pennies were minted, and it is already impossible ...

    Article : 242 words
  14. SHOCKS FOR EVIL DOERS.

    Disturbers of the peace who "won't go quietly" will have to face a new invention of a Cuban scientist, recently demonstrated by New York police. ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. THE LATEST HAT.

    As an assistant in a millinery store (an observant girl says), I have often noticed that when fashion decrees a new type of hat, such as the "Halo," ...

    Article : 72 words
  16. IN THE NICK OF TIME.

    One of the narrowest squeaks a manager ever had occurred not many years ago in London. The manager had got wind of the fact that an ...

    Article : 209 words
  17. JUMPING CAMELS.

    A new sport has been invented by the officers of the Camel Corps, in Egypt; that of camel-steeplechasing. They have trained camels to leap over ...

    Article : 103 words
  18. A Commercial Basis.

    "Now," said the bridegroom to the bride, when they returned from the honeymoon trip, "let us have a clear understanding before we settle down ...

    Article : 62 words
  19. LIGHTNESS.

    This old-fashioned verse concerning the different degrees of lightness is worth repeating- "Pray what is lighter than a feather? ...

    Article : 67 words
  20. NOTES ON NURSING.

    How wonderfully sane and sensible was the advice on infancy given by Florence-Nightingale 60 or 70 years ago in her "Notes on Nursing." She ...

    Article : 164 words
  21. Some Experience.

    "Julia, do you know what love is?" The young man put the question in an intense voice. "Yes," replied the girl, firmly. ...

    Article : 303 words
  22. All Aboard.

    The steamer was just leaving the pier when a man rushed up and shouted, "Hold on a minute, captain; there's a party of fifty coming aboard." ...

    Article : 309 words
  23. A Sharp Lesson.

    Edwin bad a great opinion of himself and was a most unbearable young man. The girl on whom he lavished his affections resented his conceit, ...

    Article : 277 words
  24. Well-Named.

    "Last night, madam," said the tourist at the ancient rural hostelry, "you informed me that the Duke of Wellington once stayed in this hotel. Is it ...

    Article : 114 words
  25. ELECTRIC SANDPAPER.

    The latest way of making sandpaper is by electricity. On a smooth sheet there are 250,000 grains to the square inch, and by a new process the ...

    Article : 162 words
  26. THE BUNCH OF KEYS.

    Incidentally, the four Keys sisters, Roberta, Mona, Leota and Mary, the only quadruplets on record in the United States who have reached ...

    Article : 201 words
  27. Unexpected.

    She: "Darling, will you give up going to the club and stay at home when we're married?" He: "Yes, dear, if you wish it." ...

    Article : 168 words
  28. Wanted a Bite.

    They had spent the day fishing in a cold, driving drizzle. But they were returning with empty baskets and sorely tried tempers. ...

    Article : 122 words
  29. A Human Defect.

    A particularly objectionable and cynical man was arguing with a parson about the imperfections of mankind. "You admit," he said, "that man is ...

    Article : 117 words
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