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  2. YOUR HAIR ON END.

    When next you read a book in which the author makes the hair of one of the characters "stand on end with terror" don't pass judgment ...

    Article : 162 words
  3. THE TWO-SEATER.

    Morley is an enthusiast. He will enthuse about anything on the least provocation. Often, indeed, he will enthuse without any provocation at ...

    Article : 435 words
  4. ONE YEAR TO LIVE.

    It is very strange how, sometimes, a single remark, passed in the heat, or the despair, or the joy, or the fed-up-fulness of the moment, has ...

    Article : 1,494 words
  5. FOR SMOKERS.

    What constitutes ton many cigar ettes? Also, a lesser one, should they be Turkish or American? You can smoke many more of the latter, ...

    Article : 219 words
  6. THE GREEN VAN MYSTERY.

    When a fire alarm has been raised in London, and fire engines and escapes have been hurried to the scene of the outbreak, a green motor van ...

    Article : 172 words
  7. CAMPHOR DREAMERS.

    The camphor of highest value is not the Chinese variety, but that known as Borneo camphor. It is so highly prized in the Far Bast that ...

    Article : 210 words
  8. BOOKS FOR NEW-BORN BABIES

    It is curious that English mothers are alone in having no superstitious beliefs regarding methods of preserving their babies from natural or ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON.

    It was a stifling night towards the end of the monsoon season. A long day's, march had brought me, dead tired, to the ramshackle ...

    Article : 803 words
  10. CHEQUE-MATE.

    I had kept quiet all tea-time, just waiting. I knew Katherina would ask me sooner or later, but I wasn't going ...

    Article : 733 words
  11. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Teacher: "Sammie, name the four seasons." Sammie: "Salt, mustard, vinegar, and pepper!" ...

    Article : 535 words
  12. SNATCHING THE CAR.

    Burgling a mansion is not a more highly organised and elaborately planned business than is stealing a motor-car. Scarcely ever is it by ...

    Article : 622 words
  13. BREAKING RAILWAY RECORDS.

    Two world's records have been made by a new oil-electric car, tried out recently by the Canadian National Railway. This car crossed ...

    Article : 153 words
  14. THOSE POST-OFFICE PENS.

    Nobody bas a good word to say for the pens provided for public use in post offices. People get still more annoyed when they are informed ...

    Article : 478 words
  15. FINGER-PRINT 'MAGIC.'

    Identification by the finger-print system, is most successful in Bast Africa, where every native carries a certificate bearing a facsimile of his ...

    Article : 155 words
  16. ONE-WORD SERMON.

    The word "news" is made up of the four letters that indicate the mainpoints of the compass—N. S. E and W. In a book published more ...

    Article : 126 words
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