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  2. THE CAMERA.

    Little did one, Baptista Porta, in the sixteenth century, dream of the possibility of transmitting photographs through the ether across the globe, or of the possibility of ...

    Article : 1,526 words
  3. OUR ROYAL VISITORS.

    Like all Europeans and other visitors the representatives of Royalty always show considerable interest in the aboriginal natives of Australia and their tribal customs, and ...

    Article : 1,479 words
  4. THE TJANDI-PRAMBANAN, A WILDERNESS OF RUINS.

    One of the many Prambanan Temples near Djockjakarta, Java. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 15 words
  5. THROUGH JAVA.

    The bedrooms of those palaces of luxury and efficiency, the hotels of Java, are equipped, generally, with private baths. But some of th[?], instead of the form of plunge-b[?]th that ...

    Article : 1,582 words
  6. CHINA.

    A spate of books about China is Issuing from English, Continental, and American publishing houses. Clearly a new generation in the world is awakening to interest in this ...

    Article : 1,275 words
  7. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Good-night Rosebud, good-night Bear, Said Mary-Anne getting down from her chair. She kissed them both and turned out the light, Don't you be naughty, getting up in the night. ...

    Article : 165 words
  8. DONNER'S LEECHES.

    Versatile minds in the course of time have devised many queer ways of earning a living; but probably few can rival in grotesqueness that started over a century ago in what is ...

    Article : 731 words
  9. WINE CELLARS.

    Nowhere else in the world can be found such caves as those beneath the metropolis of Paris, or such richness and variety of bottled sunshine as is stored in the ...

    Article : 920 words
  10. IN BUSHLAND.

    Once again the senior prize In the Rangers' League annual essay competition has been won by a Hornsby High School girl Miss Una Merkel whose essay entitled ' Thoughts Inspired by a Visit to the fifth ...

    Article : 710 words
  11. FAIRIES.

    One night when all was dark and still, I heard a tiny noise; And hark! it was a fairy, who Had come to steal my toys. ...

    Article : 110 words
  12. A REFUGE.

    There's refuge in our city From the dust and dirt and heat, There's a place of tranquil silence It's a place of sweet retreat. ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. THEN.

    "You were the dearest little child," they say. Then sigh, and turn to thoughts of yesterday. Oh, why do aunts and parents never vow I am a nice child now? ...

    Article : 91 words
  14. ARITHMETIC.

    By some divine arithmetic, John Drinkwater. "It's wonderful," said Marguerite, "That flowers can remember; ...

    Article : 92 words
  15. DAWN IN THE COUNTRY.

    As the stars quickly disappeared a faint yellow tint lit up the sky in the east to herald the coming of dawn. At last a golden-red ball appeared over the hillside, shedding its ...

    Article : 111 words
  16. INTERIOR OF A WRECK.

    Stockton Beach, twenty-nine miles long, a golden bow stretching to Port Stephens, has seen many proud ships go to their doom, and the waves roll over them uncaring. The ...

    Article : 283 words
  17. FANTASY OF MAUVE.

    Flocks of dull green butterflies, lightly veined, have given place to pale-shaded mauve ones. Prodigal Spring has bestowed on us still another gift with the blossoming of the Butterfly ...

    Article : 116 words
  18. UNIQUE SCENE AT BRISBANE AFTER CORROBOREE.

    Footmen waiting on aboriginals in the presence of our present King and Queen. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 21 words
  19. THE WORD WIZARD.

    He took dead words, and fashioned them, With tender touch, and true. And painted them with green and gold, And every fairy hue ...

    Article : 134 words
  20. I CHARM MY HEART WITH LOVE.

    I charm my heart with love, With visionary desires, No cloud that sails above But fans my fires. ...

    Article : 81 words
  21. INBORN.

    Strange that his gentle svords should set alight A fire of scorn within my lonely heart: E'en that good deed he did me seemed a slight; I knew his world, but knew not every part. ...

    Article : 104 words
  22. VISION.

    Could we forecast the coming day, Should we have strength to face the way? Should sve not shrink, with falt'ring feet From all the trials we must meet? ...

    Article : 117 words
  23. AFTERNOON.

    I have loved life and laughter, The gusty fires of youth, The naked sword of truth; But fires burn down to embers, ...

    Article : 74 words
  24. JACARANDA.

    I doubt if any lovelier thing In all the svorld could evei be, Than this—O fairest gift of Spring, A flowering jacaranda tree. ...

    Article : 26 words
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