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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,438 words
  3. DAYS OF LONG AGO.

    In the early days of the colony, certain dues and lines were handed over to the hospitals, benevolent societies, and orphanages, to assist in their upkeep. The ...

    Article : 164 words
  4. OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

    There are three adventures—birth, marriage, and death; and few escape all three. ...

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  5. OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

    It is recognised by Continental people that the races of the British Isles have a peculiar facility for dealing successfully with Oriental nations and primitive races ...

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  6. THE PICK OF THE NATION.

    The best talent of the nation, in whatever rank it may be found, will be required to make the engineer of the future. ...

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  7. THE TERROR BY NIGHT.

    The tiresome baby who cries all night is, in nine cases out of ten, the victim of foolish traditions, bad feeding, and worse management. ...

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  8. OUR HOUSES.

    In the planning of houses more thought should be given to considerations of light and ventilation than is the case at present. So far as can be judged from ...

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  9. THE REAL TROUBLE.

    We hear a great deal of the problems of unemployment nowadays, but a far more insistent and important problem is what is to be done with people's leisure. ...

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  10. A WHITE MAN.

    A man who is worth calling a man is not the man who tries to see how much he can get, but the man whose object is to see how much he can do without. ...

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  11. LABOUR AND SOCIALISM.

    The Labour party is not yet a Socialist party, but the Labour party will become a Socialist party. There is no alternative course. ...

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  12. TWO EVILS.

    Labour without leisure is drudgery to the man; leisure with out labour is a crime against society. ...

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  13. THE SORT THAT SUCCEEDS.

    The position which the Englishman holds in the world has been acquired by reason of his national character, which combines to an unusual degree the ...

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  14. LAYING OUT THE TOWN.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 519 words
  15. "THE HAND THAT ROCKS—."

    The State should simply be the home writ large and writ strong, and the, central strength of the State, as well as the central strength of the home, is ...

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  16. NOBBYS AND PORT STEPHENS.

    The first reference to Nobby Island is found in Cook's private log. On Thursday, 10th May, 1770, Cook, while passing up the coast in the Endeavour, saw "a small ...

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  17. "WE CAN GET IT FOR YOU."

    You have got to carry into your manufacturing houses the spirit which your shop assistants represent—the determination to find or make for your customer ...

    Article : 38 words
  18. A LESSON FROM GERMANY.

    In Germany, when a man is found giving money to a beggar, he can be brought before the police. It would be a good thing If something of the kind could he made ...

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  19. BORN TIRED.

    We see all around us all classes of society, men who are really tramps, idicrs who would actually have become tramps if they had over been called upon to ...

    Article : 34 words
  20. COMING ROUND.

    We are nearly ready to admit that crime is a disease : soon we shall agree that disease is a crime. ...

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  21. A MAN OF BUSINESS.

    If I were a shopkeeper I would devote myself to making my shop a place to which people would be only too delighted to go. ...

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  22. AN ADMIRABLE CRICHTON.

    To be successful a waiter must have the patience of Job, the wisdom of solomon, the wit of a diplomat, and the bearing of a prince. ...

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  23. RULE BRITANNIA.

    For instane, I think if these who try to sing with fervour "Britons never shall be slaves" were to look at the lives which some women and children are leading in ...

    Article : 67 words
  24. OLD GREECE AND MODERN BRITAIN.

    The problem of how a democracy may govern an Empire and loss none of its humanitarian ideals has never been put more significantly than in Greece of the ...

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  25. WORK AND PLAY.

    In many classes of our community and in many individual instances too much time voted to outdoor sports; but when we are speaking of those who must work for their ...

    Article : 91 words
  26. THE PREACHER'S DUTY.

    The modern preacher has not to face the counter-dogmas of a Bradlaugh or a Strauss. He is, in the contrary, confronted with doubts as to the very possibility ...

    Article : 68 words
  27. HYGIENIC WORKHOUSES.

    In fact, I say frankly the average condition of the unskilled labourer's child in poor law institutions now, as to food, clothes, enjoyment, shelter, and education ...

    Article : 78 words
  28. THE RULE OF THUMB.

    When we had to count up to ten we counted on our fingers. Even up to twenty we could count the second ten on our toes. But beyond that we had to make a mark ...

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  29. THE THINGS THAT MATTER.

    In town planning the ideal is more important than the real. Seen things are temporal; unseen things are elernal. ...

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  30. OUR FOREFATHERS.

    After ten generations a man has about a thousand ancestors. In twenty' generations he would have a million. Surely out of that number you can find ...

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  31. A MATTER OF BUSINESS.

    War is like other occupations; those succeed in it who pay strict attention to business, If this nation wants to be able to fight a War it must pay strict ...

    Article : 61 words
  32. A MATTER OF CLIMATE.

    The benefits to the world would be incaloulable if it could be made possible for a white man to live, thrive, and multiply in the tropics; for it would be a ...

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  33. LONGER SCHOOL LIFE.

    It is not right that only one out of four of the young people of England and Wales between the ages of fourteen and seventeen should have on week-days no ...

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  34. MUCH OF A MUCHNESS.

    There is not much to choose between the educated and the uneducated man when it comes to hard facts like starvation.—Sir Ernest Shackleton. ...

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  35. MORE THAN MICROBES.

    It is important to remember that there is something is sickness besides a microbe, and something more is required than vaccine or a bottle of medicine.—Dr. ...

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  36. THE ADVANCE OF WOMEN.

    This women's education movement in Oxford is only a branch of a much larger movement that has been going on throughout the world during the last fifty ...

    Article : 85 words
  37. GARDENS OF CONTENTMENT.

    I wish that where there is one allotment there were a thousand; there would be a lot more contentment than there is now. ...

    Article : 31 words
  38. WILD CATTLE.

    In the early days of the colony, a number of cattle, escaping at different times from the herds on the Hawkesbury, Hunter and other rivers, ran wild in the ...

    Article : 358 words
  39. PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

    The practical side of education is the most important factor in forming character, moral force, patriotism, and interest in life. ...

    Article : 31 words
  40. BRUTALISING WAR.

    Art seldom flourishes at the same time as war, because there is no doubt that in time of war the opinions and minds of men are brutalised and the women are in a ...

    Article : 48 words
  41. OUR ARTISTIC ANCESTORS.

    Our mediaeval ancestors would have considered it a crime to put up an ugly building. They built things of beauty, and the men who built them entered into ...

    Article : 40 words
  42. A VALUATION.

    A distinguished American, with the incisiveness characteristic of his race, recently put the case in a nutshell. "At now many rabbits or guinea pigs," he ...

    Article : 121 words
  43. BRAVE BLACK EYES.

    We want every boy in England to be able to defend himself, and practice the noble art of self-defence. I had a black eye in my day, and I do not see half enough black ...

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  44. SPECIAL NOTICE.

    The object in the preparation of the present column, is not only to provide interesting reading, but to give publicity to important facts boarding upon the early ...

    Article : 79 words
  45. ROUGH METHODS.

    Boys are spoon-fed to-day, and the food is carefully flavoured to suit all palates, in old times the papulum were more solid, and there was a stick in the background as ...

    Article : 61 words
  46. THE ARTIFICIAL SPONGE.

    The artificial sponge has recently been manufactured. The process, a German one, consist principally in the action of Zine chloride on pure collulose. This ...

    Article : 137 words
  47. THE ENGLISH WAY.

    When a new invention like the submarine or the motor comes to light the Englishman is usually behind. A few years pass and he has not only taken care of ...

    Article : 57 words
  48. A GREAT PROFESSION.

    I hope no woman will over imagine that housework is without its dignity. Every mother must be a general medical practitioner; to a large extent her own ...

    Article : 107 words
  49. A CONTRAST.

    Amongat the many contrasts which a rich contry like ours present between the condition of rich and poor, there is nono more striking then the profligate ...

    Article : 68 words
  50. WHY NOT.

    I wish we did more to send out from this country to Canada, not the unemployable, but the employable, who cannot get work at home. Why should not ...

    Article : 52 words
  51. CATTLE SLAUGHTERING.

    In the forties Mr. William Nicholson had a slaughterhouse in Beach-street, Newcastle, and he was one of the first to take up the trade of butcher in the town. The license ...

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  52. WAR THE CIVILISER.

    Leaving aside the physiological and strengthening Influence of war lot us imagine for a second what our condition would have been had perfect and idyille ...

    Article : 213 words
  53. A LAYMAN'S QUESTION.

    It is to the highest interest of the laymen that they should have a self-respecting ministry, with time to read and think and to preach good sermons, without ...

    Article : 44 words
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