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  2. A NEW LIGHT.

    To take a photograph in total darkness, amazing though it may seem, is one of the simplest of the many remarkable things which can be done with the aid of Altered ...

    Article : 1,340 words
  3. CHARLES DICKENS.

    The love story of Charles Dickens, a story that, until a few years ago, lay hidden in a couple of bundles of letters which the merest play of chance brought to light, tells ...

    Article : 1,473 words
  4. STRANGE DANCES.

    Down in the south-west of the United States, close to the Mexican border, stretches the Painted Dosert, a region where still live indians who cling to their original customs ...

    Article : 1,223 words
  5. HAWAII.

    The idea of marking the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the Sandwich islands by Captain James Cook originated with the historical societies of those islands. The work ...

    Article : 1,327 words
  6. IN THE PACIFIC.

    Not long ago a friend of mine, a widely-read, well-educated man, assured me that the vast expause of the Pacific was totally devoid of any traces of native civilisation, past ...

    Article : 1,179 words
  7. THE WOMEN OF THE PACIFIC.

    The charms of the women of tho Polynesian races in the Eastern Pacific have led many a wanderer to the islands to stay there for the remainder of his life. In Samoa and elsewhere numerous Europeans have married native women, and principally in ordor to have their children better educated, have in several cases settled in Sydney with their families. Women have figured largely in island history. Queen Saloto of Tonga, the only native kingdom remaining in the Pacific, is a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 175 words
  8. FEZ.

    Though many a mile separates George-street, Sydney and the "souks" of Foz, they are alike, perhaps in one respect as they are both important shopping centres. But ...

    Article : 756 words
  9. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    The moon is the mistress of the skies, From the dusky hills she sweeps, And each little star a watchful eye On the bright moon-mistress keeps; ...

    Article : 197 words
  10. "UNCLE."

    Uncle was a humble little old dog. He hardly brought himself to one's notice-and seemed to prefer it so Looking up from the mixing of a cake to ...

    Article : 781 words
  11. HIS AGE.

    A queer little boy who went to school. And was up to all kinds of tricks. Discovered that nine, when upside down. Would stand for the figure six. ...

    Article : 63 words
  12. SPRING IN ENGLAND.

    Spring, Queen of the Flowers, had been visiting other lands. She had left the Snow Queen in charge of her special domain at Kew. The Snow Queen was beautiful, but ...

    Article : 589 words
  13. HERBERT HOOVER.

    When the White Star liner Olympic, carrying 10,000 troops of the 91st Division (onethird of the division), had been three or four days at sea, the editors of "The Ambulator," ...

    Article : 357 words
  14. CLOTHES AND THE GIRL.

    Mr. Ernest G. Holland has just retired from the headmastership of the Highgate Council School after 51 years' association with the school. ...

    Article : 266 words
  15. THE OFFICE STOOL.

    I know I should be working out Accounts and such like things That bring the business to my desk; But fancy will take wings. ...

    Article : 152 words
  16. NEFERTITI.

    Uplifted and abashed by massiveness, I stond by Khem's old grandeurs stretched immense. Like bleching mammoths neath a blue ...

    Article : 107 words
  17. CENTRAL STATION.

    And now we part: not with fond, lingering feet Pathetic on the understanding sod; Not with eyes turning on the way we trod, ...

    Article : 118 words
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