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  2. GENIUS IN A GARRET.

    For fifty years after the death of James Waft, the man who made the steam engine a practical possibility, and whose centenary has recently ...

    Article : 198 words
  3. PEEP AT PARIS FROM LONDON.

    In the Government's new observatory at Victoria, in British Columbia, is housed the latest and mightiest of telescopes. ...

    Article : 651 words
  4. "MADE" BY THE WAR.

    The war has ever been the most dramatic of all makers of reputations. Ht has thrust into the blaze of the limelight many a man whose ...

    Article : 331 words
  5. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    True love makes the heart light--and the sitting-room dark. Kind Lady : "What do you work at my poor man?" ...

    Article : 189 words
  6. CROOKS I HAVE FOILED.

    I have in the course of my work, become acquainted with the history and methods of all kinds of crooks and shady customers. ...

    Article : 1,665 words
  7. NERVES THAT TIRE.

    The most easily tired nerves in the body are the nerves of smell. As you pass a rose in the garden the quantity of perfume that gets into ...

    Article : 187 words
  8. OFF THE DEEP END

    I have been at this job--giving performances of high and trick-diving from the piers at seaside places--for about ten years, and I think all ...

    Article : 797 words
  9. ROOF GARDEN HEN RUN.

    Within 300 yards of Big Ben, London, is a thriving poultry farm. It occupies no ground space which might be used either for public ...

    Article : 233 words
  10. GOOD FOR BUSINESS.

    The young doctor sat wearily down in his easy-chair, and asked his wife affectionately : "And has my darling been lonely?" ...

    Article : 179 words
  11. MONKEYS HAVE A LANGUAGE.

    Sir H. M. Stanley records that the Pigmy tribes of Central Africa converse in a series of tongue-clackings. and monosyllables, and that their ...

    Article : 592 words
  12. THOSE BELOVED BLUEBEARDS.

    Historians who try to write of pre-histcric times tell us that men won women in those days by brute force. Strength in man still appeals ...

    Article : 536 words
  13. HIGH FINANCE.

    Sunday morning, and all nature was at peace--until the motor-bus tore along the road, scattering dust and evil smells around. ...

    Article : 186 words
  14. SERVANTS WE CAN'T SACK.

    There are all sorts of labour-saving devices which help to solve the servant problem "and make housework easier, and now there comes along a ...

    Article : 343 words
  15. DUTY MUST BE DONE

    He was a collector for an install-ment-system establishment, new at the business, and very sensative about performing his unpleasant ...

    Article : 112 words
  16. LEARNING TO FACE TIGERS.

    Every elephant used in tiger-hunting must be steady, obedient, and fearless, for if a single elephant misbehaves or bolts when he confronts ...

    Article : 297 words
  17. HER EFFORTS WASTED.

    A lady had a cook who gave her every satisfaction, and she was under the impression that the cook was equally satisfied with her place. ...

    Article : 201 words
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