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  2. The Real Home of Santa Claus

    It may surprise most people to learn than the headquarters of San Nicola, otherwise Santa Claus, are not up in Lapland among the reindeer, but are ...

    Article : 547 words
  3. Selected Recipes

    Baked Oranges. — Choose large oranges cut them into quarters without peeling them, then place them on a baking-tin in a moderate oven and ...

    Article : 365 words
  4. What Matters Most to Women?

    Pearson's recently asked a number of well-known women. Here are their replies:—Ellen Wilkinson, M.P. ...

    Article : 955 words
  5. No. 10 Downing Street

    Plain, flat-faced, devoid of ornament to the point of ugliness, No. 10 Downing Street is perhaps the most famous house in the world," writes Mr. L. S. ...

    Article : 288 words
  6. An Antidote to War

    "If all men were gardeners, there would be no more wars," says Mr. Beverley Nichols, writing In "Scribner's Magazine." He advocates ...

    Article : 380 words
  7. Motor Cars and Science

    Who makes a motor-car comfortable? Not merely the mechanical engineer. Nor the physicist and chemist who produce the metals, lubricants ...

    Article : 198 words
  8. Strange Superstitions of the Sea

    Nearly all sailors will readily admit that, as a class, they are superstitious. The traditional superstitiousness of ...

    Article : 537 words
  9. EAR TROUBLE.

    The human ear is a delicate organ and it is never safe recklessly to apply crude methods in the treatment of some disorder to it. ...

    Article : 201 words
  10. THE MIDGETS' ROMANCE.

    Franz Ebert and Fritz Zink, midgets born in the same Rhine village, toured the world together as wandering buffoons. In 1914 they arrived at ...

    Article : 225 words
  11. THE KIND OF AIR WE BREATHE.

    More essential than the purity of the food we eat and water we drink is the air we breathe—yet we exercise little control over it. ...

    Article : 261 words
  12. HOME STUDY FOE COUNTRY COUSINS.

    Boys and girls in the country may not have the facilities for self-improvement possessed by their brothers and sisters in the city. At first sight, this ...

    Article : 519 words
  13. Suspicious.

    Two shady business men called upon a wealthy acquaintance and endeavored to interest him in a wild-cat scheme they had hit upon. ...

    Article : 426 words
  14. WHAT'S IN A CANE?

    To the average man, a cane is merely a wooden stick, usually bamboo. Mr. B. W. Cooke, who has what is probably the finest collection of ...

    Article : 139 words
  15. LARGEST ALL-WELDED BRIDGE.

    The largest all-welded bridge in the world has now been completed over the Rancocas River, New Jersey, U.S.A. It is a welded truss girder ...

    Article : 175 words
  16. MOVING A RIVER.

    To move a river so that an aerodrome can be built seems to be a rather remarkable feat, yet that is what is to be done in France. The ...

    Article : 130 words
  17. Compliments.

    Two "perfect ladies" were discussing each other, and their remarks were anything but complimentary. At length one of them said, "You ...

    Article : 54 words
  18. SHORT-LIVED CITIES.

    An Egyptian city, built 1390 years before the birth of Christ, has been, excavated by Mr. John Pendleton, at the head of a party of British scientists. ...

    Article : 264 words
  19. The Pacifist.

    "War is a curse and disgrace, it is an abomination and a blot on civilisation," shouted Bifkins in the taproom of the Dewdrop Inn. ...

    Article : 216 words
  20. Bargain Hunting.

    "Do you pay carriage on parcels bought at your shop?" asked an old lady of a draper's assistant. "Oh, yes, madam," was the reply. ...

    Article : 189 words
  21. Nothing Doing.

    Macpherson was changing his boarding-house, and when he arrived at the new one the landlady showed him to his room. ...

    Article : 169 words
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