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  2. The Recruit and His Bayonet.

    "They can't stand" the bayonet," is what our soldiers say of the Germans, for cold steel in the hands of the Britishers soon mokes the Huns ...

    Article : 481 words
  3. Womans World.

    There are many little ones who seem altogether "out of sorts" and yet the mother is unable to trace the special trouble. The child in fretful, ...

    Article : 223 words
  4. NOTABLE WAR INCIDENTS.

    A private writes:—Our company, "B," is detached from the rest of the battalion. The company has been sent up country to dig trenches, and ...

    Article : 292 words
  5. Animals and Temperature.

    Animals are not eo easily acclimated as most people think. For instance, a monkey, used to living in the trees in the shade, if exposed to ...

    Article : 424 words
  6. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    Terrible as are the ravages of war, they arc far surpassed by some other disasters which from time to time overwhelm the human race. The ...

    Article : 148 words
  7. Household Hints.

    Take one drachm of oil of lavender, two drachms of oil of lemon, eight drops of oil of cinnamon, ten drops of tincture of musk, one drachm of oil of bergamot, ...

    Article : 130 words
  8. Comic Cuttings.

    Proprietor of Restaurant : "What do you think of our beefsteaks?" Guest (gruffly) :"Too small for their age." "I'm putting on an awful quantity of ...

    Article : 917 words
  9. King Albert as a Reporter.

    Most people know of King Albert's love of literature, but few are aware that some time ago his desire for knowledge prompted him to become ...

    Article : 416 words
  10. Bibles' Food.

    According to Mrs. Ada S. Ballin, an English writer who is an, authority on matters pertaining to the health of infants, the first food of an artificial kind ...

    Article : 421 words
  11. ICELAND'S SOLITARY POLICEMAN.

    There is one country in the world, and probably only one, which gets along with a single policeman—that is Iceland. Iceland is peopled by the ...

    Article : 120 words
  12. CURRY OF KIDNEYS.

    Four or five sheep's kidneys, one ounce butter, one dessertspoonful of rice flour, one teaspoonful curry powder, one tablespoonful cream, one ...

    Article : 186 words
  13. THE FIRST DOCTOR.

    The oldest physician whose existence was known practised at the Court of a Pharaoh of the fifth dynasty about 6,000 years ago. His ...

    Article : 167 words
  14. A TOUCHING STORY.

    A beardless young soldier of the North was lying stretched in a trench, suffering from a frightful shrapnel wound in the stomach. In spite ...

    Article : 247 words
  15. Interesting Notes on Spices.

    The nutmeg is peculiarly liable to fraud. By scraping the side of the nutmeg one can readily detect a pure nutmeg from the soaked spice. If it has ...

    Article : 298 words
  16. New Telephone Invention.

    The number of epoch-making inventions of any kind is not now as great as it used to be. There must be a levelling down or up of the ...

    Article : 246 words
  17. SHEEP'S TROTTERS, STEWED.

    One set of skinned trotters, stock, one onion, two cloves, seasoning, a bunch of herbs, one dessertspoonful flour, one gill milk, one ...

    Article : 221 words
  18. SHIELDS ON WHEELS.

    Among useful captures by the Russians in Poland were a number of steel shields used by the Germans for assisting infantry attacks. The Russians ...

    Article : 96 words
  19. WAR MAPS.

    The art of cartography—or making of maps—is not essentially a bellicose one, although it has always been identified more or less with the field ...

    Article : 681 words
  20. War and Motion Pictures.

    Britain has been adversely criticised (says Ernest A. Dench in the "Scientific American") even by its own countrymen, for not availing ...

    Article : 319 words
  21. "THE GREAT MOMENT."

    The following letter, written by a young officer to his parents, will give some idea of what leaving for the front means in this war. He ...

    Article : 279 words
  22. PREVENTING PREMATURE BURIALS.

    The fear of being burled alive always has been, and is, so widespread that the French Academy of Science some years ago offered a prize equal ...

    Article : 174 words
  23. French Anti-Tobacco Society.

    In spite of ridicule, the French Society Against the Abuse of Tobacco continues its efforts to stop smoking and snuff taking. At the annual meeting, presided ...

    Article : 199 words
  24. A STEAMED MICK PUDDING.

    Most of the milk puddings made with eggs may be steamed instead of baked. The most suitable are :—rice, tapioca, sago, custard, and bread and ...

    Article : 158 words
  25. HIS SOLEMN WARNING.

    some years ago, in a certain little village, a new house was being built : and as panes of glass with "bulls'-eyes" were thought by the proprietor to be ...

    Article : 142 words
  26. Farming in Siberia.

    We have inherited from the traditions of the past the idea that Siberia is a country with a not very fruitful soil. Yet in the last few ...

    Article : 358 words
  27. STRIKING FACTS ABOUT MATCHES.

    It has been estimated that, for each minute of time, the civilised nations of the world strike 3,000,000 matches. This is said to be the ...

    Article : 154 words
  28. A Cut's Caprices.

    Cats are the most obstinately capricious in their fancies about their beds of any domestic creature. They will follow a particular rug or shawl from ...

    Article : 538 words
  29. Charges of Cavalry.

    During the First Crusade, after the Christian army had taken Nice, a battle was fought with a host of Turks under the command of the Sultan Sollman. ...

    Article : 196 words
  30. BARLEY PUDDING (WITHOUT EGGS).

    Two ounces pearl barley, a little water, one pint milk, one ounce butter, sugar to taste, a little flavouring, a pinch of salt, first wash and ...

    Article : 143 words
  31. Right Again.

    "Do you stop at—? Oh, dear, I've forgotten the name of the road, conductor!" said a portly old lady to the conductor of a tram car in a ...

    Article : 256 words
  32. REGULAR SEA DOG.

    A sailor belonging to one of His Majesty's ships returned home unexpectedly."Why, what's up, Jack ?" asked ...

    Article : 254 words
  33. MARY ALICE EXPLAINED.

    It was at the third waltz of the Overlookers' Club meeting that Tom met Mary Alice. From that minute forth they never ...

    Article : 164 words
  34. COLOURING FRUITS

    The French who have always had the liveliest eye for colour in connection with food, have, it would seem, just begun to indulge in some polychromatic vagaries ...

    Article : 257 words
  35. WANTED OPENING.

    Noiselessly, but with all his might, the burglar tugged at the dressing table drawer. In vain; it refused to open. Ho tugged again. ...

    Article : 121 words
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