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  3. PRESERVING FLOWERS.

    Lovers of flowers in their natural state are afforded a way of drying cut blossoms in sand instead of pressing them. The method requires ...

    Article : 144 words
  4. REST AND SLEEP.

    The average amount of "absolute rest" that is obtained during a night's sleep is only 11½ minutes, according to Prof. H. M. Johnson, of ...

    Article : 74 words
  5. A PAINFUL MEMORY.

    That one man's meat is another man's poison is a fact you soon come to realise in Central Africa. There have been times when sheer ...

    Article : 1,397 words
  6. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    Before cleaning copper kettles fill them with boiling water. They will be found to polish more quickly. A wooden beadstead should ...

    Article : 354 words
  7. OUR BULBS.

    I never feel at my best at breakfast, and if there's one thing I dislike mere than another, it's having to be bright and conversational over ...

    Article : 921 words
  8. CONSULTING ROOM HUMOUR.

    It comes as a welcome relief to the serious side of my consulting room work when a patient introduces a touch of humour. ...

    Article : 581 words
  9. A PROBLEM.

    Hott would you cure an elephant of rickets? The London Zoo authorities have been up against that problem end they have turned to ...

    Article : 90 words
  10. HIGH LIFE.

    In the struggle for existence many creatures are driven to live at immense heights. The climbers of Everest saw a herd of wild sheep sitting ...

    Article : 114 words
  11. WAGS OF THE TABLES.

    Cafes seem to have a special lure for practical jokers and wags. I suppose that is because there is plenty of scope for these misguided ...

    Article : 791 words
  12. TOM TIDDLER'S TREASURE TROVE.

    Through losing a ball, some schoolboys have just found a nice little windfall. While searching in a hedgerow for their lost ball, the boys came ...

    Article : 503 words
  13. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    Dear Old Lady (to shopwalker): "I want to buy one of those wireless fans I read so much about; my room gets so frightfully stuffy." ...

    Article : 491 words
  14. IN A PEPPER WORKS.

    The visitor to a pepper factory should carry an ample supply of handkerchiefs. He will need them before he is finished. He will also come ...

    Article : 446 words
  15. STRANGE YET TRUE.

    In one year a single oyster can produce as many as 1,000,000 new ones. Hot springs that exist in great ...

    Article : 342 words
  16. RESERVOIRS OF STEAM.

    It is, of course, the usual thing for a city to have a few reserve reservoirs to guard against interruption of the water supply, but a Swedish ...

    Article : 151 words
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