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  2. What Milk Has Done

    The beneficial effects of the daily ration of milk upon school children are already manifested in Glasgow schools, the largest unit in the subsidised ...

    Article : 144 words
  3. The Benefits of Correct Breathing

    It is rightly said that deep breathing is essential to health, but this is not the whole secret. Six or seven deep, long breaths twice a day are not ...

    Article : 561 words
  4. Making the Trade Routes Safer

    The Admiralty announce that the contract for a ship which will make the shipping routes of the entire world safer is to be placed in the near ...

    Article : 311 words
  5. (Short Story.) An Awkward Moment

    "A telegram—a telegram from Tom, grannie, I am certain!" I exclaimed, jumping out of my low chair by the window as I saw a telegraph-boy ...

    Article : 1,271 words
  6. Making the Most of Your Opportunities

    Make the most of your opportunities, girls. Don't be satisfied that you'll do it to-morrow or rest on your laurels because you did it yesterday. Do it ...

    Article : 289 words
  7. Paradise for £200

    Mr. Maurice Allard, ex-South Sea trader and social reformer, has purchased the Isle of Vana Vana from Princess Tehuva of Tahiti. Now he ...

    Article : 176 words
  8. MOTORISTS PLEASED.

    Constantinople has put a ban on all horse-drawn vehicles in the city streets during the day. A municipal edict forbids them between 5 a.m. and ...

    Article : 84 words
  9. NINE STARS TO MAKE PERFECT WIFE.

    It takes nine film stars to made the perfect wife, according to George Brent, the Hollywood actor. "The ideal girl to marry," said Mr. ...

    Article : 139 words
  10. POINT DUTY ON NIAGARA.

    When Niagara Falls were frozen a few weeks ago hundreds of sightseers came from all over the country to wife ness the remarkable scene. ...

    Article : 117 words
  11. THE STRATOSPHERE.

    More plans are being laid for raids on the stratosphere, and more than one country wants to be the first to know the secrets of the space up ...

    Article : 178 words
  12. A SHAVING HINT.

    The following conversation, which took place some time ago in a Sheffield barber's shop, has since saved me much pain and discomfort, writes ...

    Article : 141 words
  13. ANTS ON THE MOVE.

    Among the drawbacks to life in South America are ants. Some of the species migrate for miles in armies of two or three million. If a house ...

    Article : 181 words
  14. RUSSIA INDEPENDENT.

    Soviet industries are now independent of the rest of the world regarding essential minerals, declared Professor Cubkin, of the Russian ...

    Article : 104 words
  15. An Apt Reply.

    A landlord wrote to his tenant: "Dear sir, I regret to inform you that my rent is much overdue. Will you kindly forward me a cheque?'" ...

    Article : 457 words
  16. HOW LONG IS AN EGG NEW LAID?

    How long is an egg "new-laid?" Counsel asked the question in the King's Bench Division, London, during a case concerning a consignment ...

    Article : 119 words
  17. UNLIKELY ACCIDENTS.

    One could hardly imagine a more placid occupation than milking a cow; yet it was while engaged upon this task that the head cowman of a dairy ...

    Article : 176 words
  18. Diplomacy.

    He called at the house and asked if she had any carpets to beat, adding that he had been at the business for twenty years. ...

    Article : 377 words
  19. WOMAN'S STRANGE MALADY.

    Chrysanthemums, it has just been revealed, caused a mysterious malady from which Mrs. Lydia Hawkins, of Brighton (Eng.) is recovering. ...

    Article : 164 words
  20. YOUTH'S ABNORMAL SIZE.

    Robert Wadlof, of Illinois (U.S.A.), who is but 17 years of age, stands 8 feet 4 inches high and weighs almost 28 stone. ...

    Article : 338 words
  21. Identification Clue.

    An excited man dashed into a police-station at midnight, explaining that his wife had been missing since eight o'clock that morning, and ...

    Article : 295 words
  22. CAT'S BIRTHDAY PARTY.

    Two hundred persons have accepted an invitation to a dinner celebrating the twenty-first birthday of a cat at Seneca Palls, New York. ...

    Article : 104 words
  23. A Weighty Matter.

    A very stout man mounted the scales and dropped a penny in the slot. After a furious clanking and rattling the pointer finally came to ...

    Article : 224 words
  24. Expert Diagnosis.

    A woman went to see a doctor. "Doctor," she exclaimed loudly, bouncing into the room, "I want you to say frankly what's wrong with me." ...

    Article : 170 words
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