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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 2,589 words
  3. Other Men's Minds.

    My dear father has been called "the Peacemaker," and he was a peacemaker, and I consider it my duty to follow in his footsteps. Consequently I shall support every ...

    Article : 48 words
  4. Tea Table Talk.

    Her Majesty the German Empress was, previous to her marriage, it will be remembered Princess Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein. The Emperor and Empress have adopted a very ...

    Article : 1,230 words
  5. TELEGRAMS.

    Blairgour and Wirrilla are equal favourites for the Doncaster, followed at two points by Bright Laddie. A similar distance away come Full Sail and Nuwarra Eliya. With another ...

    Article : 147 words
  6. ONE THING LACKING.

    There is a sad lack of character in the men and women of to-day; we are so intent on growing minds that we forget that there is a will and a heart. ...

    Article : 37 words
  7. THE STRENGTH OF SENTIMENT.

    Sentiment is sometimes spoken of as one of the weak things of life, but, properly understood, it is one of the strongest.— ...

    Article : 28 words
  8. PECKING AT A PROBLEM.

    The garden suburb may be only pecking at a big problem; but it is far better to peck at it than merely to sniff at it.— ...

    Article : 32 words
  9. THE STRENUOUS LIFE.

    So-called labour-saving devices, such as telephones, taxi-cabs, and private secretaries, merely enable a man to crowd more work into a day, and make life more strenuous.— ...

    Article : 32 words
  10. [REUTER'S.]

    Mr. Roland Vernon, of the Colonial Office, will accompany Lord Denman, successor to the Earl of Dudley. AUSTRALASIAN PREMIERS TO VISIT ...

    Article : 210 words
  11. THE RIGHT OF THE CHILD.

    Every child has the right to an education suited to his intellectual capacity, and not merely to the depth of his father's purse.— ...

    Article : 31 words
  12. THE THREE DISGRACES.

    The three great obstacles to our reaching the sanitary millennium in England are ignorance, indifference, and greed; and the greatest is ignorance.— ...

    Article : 27 words
  13. THE SOUNDING-BOARD.

    The House of Commons is the greatest sounding-board in the world, and responds more quickly to a human appeal than most people think.— ...

    Article : 28 words
  14. BY DEGREES.

    The ideal social state is no more than an ideal which we must strive to attain by evolution in the laws of the state and by slow. education of the people.— ...

    Article : 36 words
  15. THE SIN OF IDLENESS.

    Knowledge is only useful when it can be applied; and if the idle rich are an offence the idle scholar is a still greater offence.— ...

    Article : 33 words
  16. WHAT'S WRONG.

    There is only one thing the matter with the poor; and that is that they have no money.— ...

    Article : 23 words
  17. AN IMPOSSIBLE HANDICAP.

    It would be as easy for d fishing smack to stop a Dreadnought as for an uneducated people to compete successfully with an educated people.— ...

    Article : 32 words
  18. TIME OFF WANTED.

    Mr. Turner, Superintendent of Technical Education, emphasised the hard lot of the technical students on Tuesday when he was giving evidence before the South Australian ...

    Article : 226 words
  19. THE BRUTAL MAJORITY.

    It always appears to me that the principle of majority rule is a rather brutal one, at any rate in theory. It is quite within the limit of possibility that we may have a minority in ...

    Article : 78 words
  20. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 44 words
  21. OUR DEFENCES.

    If I were a German, a Frenchman, or a Swiss I would be for compulsory service, for the first thing to be done in those countries is to defend their land frontiers, and that ...

    Article : 94 words
  22. ONE MAN ONE VOTE.

    We believe a man's right to vote depends on his being a citizen, and prima facie a man who is a citizen of full age and of competent understanding ought to be entitled to a vote ...

    Article : 54 words
  23. CLERGY AND LAITY.

    This terrible amount of clerical poverty is not due solely to the depreciation in the value of land and the fall in the title rents. There is also the fact that while the ancient ...

    Article : 110 words
  24. THE SLOUCHERS.

    Our pastimes of to-day have produced a slouching gait; and the majority of young people have lost all sense of beauty in their bearings.— ...

    Article : 28 words
  25. THANKS TO THE GIPSIES.

    We owe a great debt of gratitude to the gipsies for their faithful' guardianship of beautiful folk-songs and ballad music, which a modern civilisation considers ...

    Article : 33 words
  26. THE OBJECT OF EDUCATION.

    The real object of our schools should be not to produce a few "stars" and sparkling citizens, but to raise the status of the working child.— ...

    Article : 32 words
  27. THE 'VARSITY TOUCH.

    People connected with universities, especially professors, are often more remarkable for their business peculiarities than for business aptitudes.— ...

    Article : 25 words
  28. FOR FILTHY LUCRE.

    Has there ever been a movement like the advance of manufactures, that juggernaut which has crushed and trampled upon the population of this country? Has there ever ...

    Article : 90 words
  29. BRITISH ART.

    I have little patience with those people who speak of foreign countries leading us in matters of art. We in England can produce extraordinarily fine work in nearly every ...

    Article : 172 words
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