Articles from page 13: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. THE FINNS AT HOME.

    Finland has been called "The Land of a Thousand Lakes" and the description is particularly apt, for the lakes, 80,000 in all, form my most vivid memory of that lovely country. There are pinc forests, rivers. and fine agricultural land. The rivers are used as the means of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,103 words
  3. SUNSET ON TUGGERAH LAKES.

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 5 words
  4. HALF-CASTES ARE OUTCASTS.

    Linked with two races, half-castes are desired by neither. They live generally a life apart. Their problem, becoming ever more serious, can only be ...

    Article : 876 words
  5. GRIM MEMORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST.

    Not long ago I encountered Sir Donald Cameron, genial and spruce as ever. He was our commanding officer, before he became Sir Donald, while I was only a rough-neck trooper in the 5th Light Horse. The tough old soldier hasn't changed, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 758 words
  6. STATE'S STRANGEST NEWSPAPER.

    "The New South Wales Compendium" is the title of one of the strangest papers published in the State. It is never seen by the general public; it ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 247 words
  7. PALESTINE HAS SHAKEN OFF THE DUST OF CENTURIES.

    Twenty-three years ago, when the Australian troops forced their way into Palestine, driving before them the defeated Turkish army, their eyes fell upon the barren and rocky mountains of Judea, their feet sank deep into the drifting sand-dunes of the deserted plain along ...

    Article : 826 words
  8. AN ANCIENT CRAFT.

    Before the outbreak of war, plans were under way, largely from the Gutenberg Museum at Mayence, for honouring the inventor of printing in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,075 words
  9. FANCY MEETING YOU!

    Round the guns at Huj lay a sickening heap of carnage waiting our attention—men and animals lying shattered in pools of blood. At first there ...

    Article : 204 words
  10. "FLASH JACK,".

    Ask any bushman in the western districts of Queensland or the north-west of New South Wales who was the bestdressed stockman he ever knew and the ...

    Article : 437 words
  11. WHAT'S IN A NAME?

    In 1256, on the Feast of the Assumption, a 90-year-old peasant woman in a Cambridgeshire village was accidentally burned to death. Ironically enough, ...

    Article : 656 words
  12. NOCTURNE.

    Night danced through the city As it woke on Pleasure's Heights And her dark gown glitteied expensively With a myriad jewel lights. ...

    Article : 53 words
  13. A DESERT BECOMES A GARDEN.

    For many centuries the Sharon Valley along the coastline of Palestine was a waste of sand dunes and swamps, almost inaccessible to human enterprise and a menace to human health. This hitherto desolate stretch of land has been transformed into a thriving centre of orange plantations and orchards, symbolising the progress that has changed the whole face of the Holy Land during the past twenty-five years. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 71 words
  14. LORD'S MID-AUGUST 1939.

    The players make their movements on the field. Gentle as the movements of the wisp of cloud Floating in the blue still sky. ...

    Article : 101 words
  15. "THE GHOST WALKS."

    F. A. Keen writes; A fellow officer said to me one day: "The ghost walks to-day." I asked, "What does that mean?" He replied, "We get paid." Subsequently, ...

    Article : 174 words
  16. THE LAW HAS ITS JOKES.

    A well-known attorney in the U.S.A. spends a lot of his spare time in "collecting" queer laws that are still on the Statute Book. One gem comes from ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. POTTED POLITICS.

    "Germany did not become a united nation at all till 1871; in 1910 she contracted a sort of mariage de convenance with democracy, and now, after a hasty divorce, has ...

    Article : 97 words
  18. EPITOME.

    Beauty has often been seen, And heard. When interpreted. Sometimes, like Love, it has been Crowned, and then pierced through the side. ...

    Article : 26 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$