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  2. MAKING THE DESERT BLOSSOM

    We have learned during the past five years that there is hardly any land in England which cannot be made productive. But there are tens ...

    Article : 247 words
  3. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    The teacher was explaining the meaning of the word "obliterated." "Obliterated," she said, "means wiped out." Glancing round she ...

    Article : 885 words
  4. BOND OR FREE?

    I am a parson, therefore what I write here must be anonymous. Or I should be smothered with abuse and execration from my brethren, and ...

    Article : 766 words
  5. SPOOFS THAT SPREAD.

    Southwark was weeks in the grip of the biggest hoax of the Peace. The story went round persistently that someone mysterious--rumour ...

    Article : 942 words
  6. THE PRICE.

    His mother was a widow, and he her only child. He was an apprentice-- a pattern maker, as his father had been, not ...

    Article : 831 words
  7. MAXIMS OF A STEEL KING.

    Andrew Carnegie, the steel millionaire, who died recently, had many sayings, witty ' and wise, to his credit. Here are a few of them :-- ...

    Article : 188 words
  8. IT HAS COME TRUE.

    As Jerusalem, previous to being captured by the British in December 1917, had been under Turkish misrule for four hundred years, it was ...

    Article : 172 words
  9. CELEBRITIES AND CARDS.

    The curious fascination cards possess for their' devotees is illustrated by the following story of Lord Granville, at the time England's ...

    Article : 235 words
  10. A STRIKE THAT FAILED.

    Labour strikes are not the product of the last hundred years, as some people think. They were frequent even in the earliest recorded days. ...

    Article : 163 words
  11. SOUR MILK.

    During the hot weather we think anxiously of the milk. People are always giving you ways and means of keeping milk sweet, but they ...

    Article : 225 words
  12. RAISING THE WIND.

    The suggestion that we should "raise the wind" in our present parlous financial state by a prize lottery bond scheme recalls other State ...

    Article : 359 words
  13. SHORT-SIGHTED INSECTS.

    The toughest nut that disciples of the Darwinian theory--that the splendid colours and markings of flowers are due to the discriminating ...

    Article : 208 words
  14. FAKE FACTORIES.

    How many of the "souvenirs" one comes across are real? Only the "faker" can tell. German helmets and other war ...

    Article : 203 words
  15. FLYING SICKNESS.

    The thrilling work of aviators in the war has given rise to a new disease. It is called "the flying sickness." It combines the worst ...

    Article : 959 words
  16. PAYING ON THE NAIL.

    An expression with which everyone is familiar, "paying on the nail," comes from the old method of settling accounts. ...

    Article : 128 words
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