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  2. PREPARING FOR HARVEST.

    This is the time of year when gaudily painted harvesting machines are to be seen in the railway loading yards, on goods trains, and to a lesser ...

    Article : 1,065 words
  3. A DOCTOR'S EXPERIMENTS.

    No fewer than 180 people have voluntered to risk their lives in a scientific experiment contemplated by Dr. Ralph Willard, of Hollywood, U.S.A. ...

    Article : 227 words
  4. INVENTION THAT "CLUCKS."

    With a "cluck" like a hen, an instrument has been invented at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington, London, and it clucks as soon as it ...

    Article : 483 words
  5. [Short Story.] TEDDY'S CHRISTMAS.

    "Deer Santy Claws, plees cum an see muvver an' mee, caws shes sick an wee are hungry and miserable, i dont want no toys, just sum fude for ...

    Article : 1,185 words
  6. [Short Story.] DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

    "I shall not do it," said Mrs. Crane, firmly, "and nobody can make me!" Evelyn, her daughter, paused half way up the stairs upon which her mother ...

    Article : 1,019 words
  7. STRANGE BURIAL OF ZULU PROPHET.

    Strange scenes were witnessed at the funeral of Shembe, the 60-year-old Zulu prophet of Manda, who was reputed to be the richest native in Natal, ...

    Article : 547 words
  8. HOW FAMILIAR NAMES GAME.

    At school we were taught that a man's name is a proper noun and is spelled with a capital letter. But what do you call it when it is used, still ...

    Article : 524 words
  9. BRUM ABROAD.

    Thousands of tourists, returning to England from every corner of the earth, are proudly bringing home foreign souvenirs. But they are literally ...

    Article : 153 words
  10. NUMBERED ROADS.

    On many sign-posts there appears a letter (A or B) followed by a number. Do you know what this means? The idea is this. Every important ...

    Article : 132 words
  11. MASQUERADED AS GERMAN.

    Because he masqueraded as a German for three years while, all the time, he was a citizen of the Soviet, Pavlo Krivosche has been summarily ...

    Article : 202 words
  12. A LONG SLEEP.

    Patricia Maguire, a young girl of Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.A., is just beginning to awaken from a sleep that has lasted nearly three and a half years. ...

    Article : 194 words
  13. LAPIN A LA SAINT-AVERTIN.

    Young rabbit can be a most delicious dish if properly cooked and seasoned. With the addition of wine in cooking it is transformed into a dish ...

    Article : 213 words
  14. WHY ICEBERGS MELT.

    Most people seem to think that an iceberg simply melts because ocean currents carry it into the warmer parts of the world. This is only true to a ...

    Article : 331 words
  15. Difficult Photography.

    "I want this photograph of my husband enlarged," said the woman to the photographer. "Now can you do it with his hat off?" ...

    Article : 117 words
  16. BULLET IN HEART—STILL LIVES.

    Wounded in Italy in 1915, Antal Kacso, a 50-year-old farmer of Hodmezovasarhely, Budapest, has been walking about ever since with a bullet in his ...

    Article : 181 words
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