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  2. HOME LIFE BREAKS DOWN IN AMERICA.

    Home life, so dear to the hearts of all Britishers, is fast disappearing in the large American cities and is gradually becoming the privilege of the wealthy and upper middle-class people. Americans are losing their love of home life because the younger generation is being brought ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,187 words
  3. BUSH REFLECTIONS.

    A pool on Ewenmar Creek, Bundemar (western N.S.W.), mirrors the shadows cast by the rising sun. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 38 words
  4. TRICKS OF THE SPIES.

    Science, a sixth sense, and high intelligence are the three weapons used by the British Secret Service to outwit the enemy agent. It is a ceaseless battle of wits in which the censorship division is much better equipped than in the last war as the ...

    Article : 1,120 words
  5. NO BED OF ROSES.

    No article of furniture, I suppose, has been so often alluded to in literature as the bed. Mostly, the comments have been of a grateful and felicitous nature; ...

    Article : 1,050 words
  6. AMERICAN FINNS

    A special correspondent, describing the recent arrival of a CanadianAmerican Brigade in Finland, reported that the majority of the men were of ...

    Article : 432 words
  7. U.S.-CANADA-ALASKA HIGHWAY.

    With the eastward flow of the European war threatening to envelop the Near East, we cannot ignore the possibility that before long Russia may be fighting on a Pacific front. If, as many people believe, Britain is eventually forced to challenge Stalinist Imperialism, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 834 words
  8. COLLECTIVE HUMOUR.

    Supposing that a foreigner should begin talking to us about a "flock" of wolves, a "herd" of sheep, or a "pack" of cattle, we should have no hesitation ...

    Article : 499 words
  9. GOTHIC TALE.

    Eternal moonlight shadows every stone Of ruined yesterday; the tumbled pile That haunts my looking dream. I hear the moon ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 172 words
  10. A Naturalist's Notebook.

    A study of animal life in the world to-day reveals that those kinds which live more or less a social life have a better chance of existence than animals ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 857 words
  11. THE BEE MAIL.

    The conflict in China has promoted the bee from a gatherer of honey to a mail carrier for the Japanese. With the help of modern photography, ...

    Article : 104 words
  12. THE PLUMBER.

    A crowned King! But not upon his brow The radiant jewel, or gaudy crown of gold— Emblems of custom and convention! Cold. Barren, and profitless, and futile now ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. WHEN JUSTICE WAS CONFOUNDED.

    Chief Baron Pollock to a boy of ten: "What will happen if you speak untruths?" "Hell-fire, sir." "Swear him in," said the Judge; "he knows ...

    Article : 42 words
  14. MAN.

    With head unbowed, All steeled to meet the blow he stands, Nigh broken with the strain of living. Sorrow heaped on sorrow, ...

    Article : 51 words
  15. THE BREECHES TEST.

    Apropos of Mr. F. S. Burnell's article on the subject of beer on this page, it is interesting to note that beer recently celebrated its official quincentenary in ...

    Article : 255 words
  16. GRENADIERS!

    "Before the war (1914) there was played in Strassburg a German version of that fine old English melodrama, 'A Royal Divorce.' ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. AN OLD COLONIAL HOME.

    Now the rectory of St. Columb's Church, at Ryde, Ryedale House was once the home of Major Edward Darvall, who, in the forties of last century, purchased an estate of 300 acres in the district. Built of stone in the colonial style, the house is an interesting architectural ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 75 words
  18. LIGHTNING BATHER

    On the Granite Belt, Queensland's stone-fruit centre, I once made the acquaintance of a man who "bathes in lightning" in the manner of the ...

    Article : 180 words
  19. DEVIL IN A BOOT.

    Is a Jack-in-the-box still usually included among the gifts of Santa Claus, I wonder? One would be sorry to think that the modern nursery knew ...

    Article : 146 words
  20. LOUISA ALCOTT.

    How many folk have lived with Jo, Through the laughter and tears of long ago? Transported back, by a writer's grace, To life when it moved at a gentler pace. ...

    Article : 98 words
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