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  2. TOILERS WITH NEEDLES.

    Waving golden wheat—a loaf of bread. From the grain sacks to the baker's flour bin it is a quick transition. Machines do most of the work. It is ...

    Article : 1,596 words
  3. A CONVICT POET.

    One of the most illustrious of those visitors to Australia who left their countries for their countries' good was John Boyle O'Reilly. In the seventies ...

    Article : 1,635 words
  4. A COOL COLONNADE OF SUMMER TREES.

    "O blow ye westlin winds, blaw soft Amang the leafy trees; Wi' balmy gale, frae hill and dale Bring hame the laden, bees; ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 117 words
  5. ROYAL CUSTOMS.

    The British Monarchy has behind it a long tradition of unsurpassed magnificence and pomp, and to-day it stands alone in this respect. Nowhere else in ...

    Article : 836 words
  6. TREASUR-SEEKER AMONG BOOKS.

    when I first saw Mr. David Scott Mitchell, founder of the Mitchell Library, I was a boy in a Sydney book shop. He came in in his well-known ...

    Article : 1,350 words
  7. HUMAN HISTORY.

    Human history, or anthropology, is one of the "newer" sciences of which the celebrated Australian anatomist and anthropologist, the late Sir Grafton ...

    Article : 830 words
  8. Children's Poetry.

    Rain upon the window, A fire nearly spent, Dreams, a cosy armchair, And I shall be content. ...

    Article : 98 words
  9. LAKELAND MAGIC.

    For those who are fond of fresh air and the exhilaration that only walking can give, there are few places more suitable than the country near Keswick, ...

    Article : 673 words
  10. DINING1 IN SOHO.

    "Let's eat in Soho!" I wonder how many of you will be saying this next year with the certain knowledge that your wishes will be gratified? Soho has ...

    Article : 936 words
  11. BABY DUCKLINGS.

    When mother duck had her eggs Inside her cosy nest. She said, "Now that my eggs are laid, I'll sit on them and lest." ...

    Article : 177 words
  12. PLACE NAMES.

    The study of the origin of local place names is always interesting, and there are quite a number of places named only a comparatively few years ago ...

    Article : 548 words
  13. MY TEDDY BEAR.

    I have a little teddy bear, He's such a fluffy thing, I'made him all myself, you know, So he's my favourite thing. ...

    Article : 57 words
  14. WATTLE TREES.

    As the wind blows through the wattle trees The fluffy balls dance on the breeze To tell us that the spring is here; That summer time is very near. ...

    Article : 64 words
  15. PHLOX.

    A rainbow, torn by fairy hands to shreds, Is sprinkled lightly on my garden-beds, Or gay confetti thrown among the flow'rs Tells of the wedding of the summer hours. ...

    Article : 32 words
  16. A QUESTIONING GLANCE.

    A striking photograph of a native along the Middle Whagi river which rises in Mt. Hagen, 300 miles inland in a north-westerly direction from Salamaua. (See article, "Human History," on this page.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 35 words
  17. A FOUNTAIN.

    The velvet blackness of a fragrant night, was broken by swift shafts of golden light That, o'er the surface. Of the dark blue pool. ...

    Article : 79 words
  18. BALLET IMPRESSION.

    Though now no more by field and stream, And in the stariit air. Light nymphs and dryads dance and gleam. Swift and divinely fair. ...

    Article : 79 words
  19. TREES.

    The park is small and sloping, With quiet lawns— But not the green, the vivid green, Of two ranks of trees in sunlight. ...

    Article : 74 words
  20. MEMORIES.

    Gather the shadows which fall 'neath the trees. As the ev'ning moves placidly on... Nought else remains of the harvest, but ...

    Article : 37 words
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