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  3. WATCH YOUR STEP.

    Most people dance badly; their steps are wrong and their rhythm is wrong, and therefore they lose a lot of the pleasure of dancing. ...

    Article : 152 words
  4. OUR SEA-FLAVOURED SPEECH.

    It is popularly supposed that the phrase "the devil to pay" refers to a gamble with his Satanic Majesty. Not a bit of it! In the old sailing ...

    Article : 430 words
  5. THE MUTINY OF THE CASWELL.

    The Caswell was a handsome brig of 400 tons. She was under the command of Captain Best, a mate, and second mate. Whether or not there ...

    Article : 1,565 words
  6. NAMES THAT BAFFLE.

    We have most of us frowned over mysterious initials at the end of a letter we had to answer, and wondered whether they signified Mr., ...

    Article : 287 words
  7. HOW BIRDS SLEEP.

    Very few laymen can understand why a tree-perching bird does not fall oft a slender branch when it goes to sleep and becomes unconscious. ...

    Article : 198 words
  8. WHAT'S IN A NAME? 1

    My mother often told me I should never make a name. True, I never could—except a bad one—but on receiving my first letter, when residing ...

    Article : 720 words
  9. SLIM BUT STARVING.

    Dieting, still in force since the slim figure remains the fashionable ideal, is a favourite topic of conversation nowadays. People compare diets and ...

    Article : 341 words
  10. KEEPING HOUSE IN B.A.

    "The servant brings her own mattress," said the woman who knew the ropes to a bride newly-arrived from England. "And if you settle in the ...

    Article : 719 words
  11. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    Don't assume that a deaf man cannot hear the voice of conscience. A lullaby on the gramophone ought to send a baby to sleep in ...

    Article : 525 words
  12. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME. f

    When soup, stews or gravies seen rather poor, add m=1/2 teaspoonful of marmite, dissolved in 1-third of a cup of boiling water. It enriches ...

    Article : 491 words
  13. YOU OUGHT TO DREAM.

    Surprising as it may sound, you ought to dream. "But," you ask, "what's the use of dreaming? Isn't a dreamless sleep the most natural ...

    Article : 405 words
  14. THE IDEAL WEIGHT.

    "A lean horse for a long, race" is a motto justified by life-insurance experience, we are told by Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk. It has been possible ...

    Article : 386 words
  15. NEW SILK FROM OLD.

    It has long been the practice to work up discarded woollen clothing and woollen rags of all sorts into a cheap fabric known as shoddy. ...

    Article : 178 words
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