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  2. WHY SCOTLAND IS "STERN AND WILD."

    No one can really understand the scots; they are inexplicable. A nation which, in spite of the fury with which old ware were waged, managed ...

    Article : 1,631 words
  3. TREES THAT TALK.

    The poet talks of "woodland whispers," but Mr. John Grimshaw Wilkinson, who although blind, is one of the formost naturalists, will tell you ...

    Article : 335 words
  4. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Mr. Knagg: "I don't see what you have to complain of laven't you had the best of everything since we were married?" ...

    Article : 117 words
  5. BEETLES AS HAIR RESTORERS

    Of the thousands of people who use hairrestorers, few know that the hairgrowing power of these preparations is, in most cases, obtained from ...

    Article : 174 words
  6. MOTHER-MADE MARRIAGES.

    "The girl of to-day has no respect for her mother's judgement on men." complained a another of daughters recently. "She marries the man see ...

    Article : 512 words
  7. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Stone cannon-balls were used as late as 1589. The Turks massacred over 900,000 Armenians in 1915. ...

    Article : 346 words
  8. DEEP SEA TREASURES.

    The ocean is one vast and inaccessible treasurechest. Sunk in it sunless depths lie treasure which would pay off the National Debt of England ...

    Article : 311 words
  9. WHAT A MESS!

    The theatre was crowded, and the audience sat with bated breath as they watched the villain cross the stage and grasp the trembling ...

    Article : 205 words
  10. FROM ALTAR TO ARCTIC.

    Mr. Elkins, the wealthy young American who recently took his bride for a honeymoon "as near the North Pole as be could comfortably get," ...

    Article : 217 words
  11. WISE MEN SAY—

    That winners aren't whiners. That you can't advance it you sit still. That if you want to advance, get ...

    Article : 219 words
  12. HADN'T NOTICED THEM.

    Genius is invariably absent-minded. A famous Scotch professor was no exception to the rule. He had returned from a long walk, and his ...

    Article : 128 words
  13. WHY IS THE SKY BLUE?

    Not one person in a hundred could give a satisfactory answer to the question. And yet the explanation, as given ...

    Article : 290 words
  14. INFANT FOOTPRINTS. EGG-EATING HENS.

    In one of the large hospitals in America a system of taking babies' footprints has been established. This is to avoid the complications which Judging from the numerous requests I have recently had from poultry owners to tell them a cure for egg-eating, I guess there seems ...

    Article : 482 words
  15. THE PATIENT'S PLAINT.

    Two extra-specialists had pounded him and sounded him and felt his pulse and tapped his frame, till he could only lie in a cold perspiration ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    If a clothesline is boiled before being used, it will not twist, as new rope is apt to do. An umbrella must be perfectly dry ...

    Article : 458 words
  17. THE KING'S CURIOS

    Probably few of the thousands who visit Windsor Castle every year have seen the museum, near the Equerries' entrance, in which King George ...

    Article : 373 words
  18. A REASONABLE DESIRE.

    Frisbey is one of the politest men you ever met. One day he was cycling along a broad road, when he espied ahead a ...

    Article : 312 words
  19. WASHING AN ELEPHANT.

    Although every owner of a valuable elephant knows it is false economy never to give the animal a bath, there are times when a lick and a ...

    Article : 279 words
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