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  2. BATTLE INCIDENT.

    .Mr. Boyd Cable, an Australian writer, who has published some of the entertaining battlefield sketches of the war, has a highly diverting descriptive article in a recent issue ...

    Article : 1,881 words
  3. SIR HIRAM MAXIM.

    Io the death of Sir Hiram Maxim on November 24th, 1916 at his home near London, England, the world has lost one of its most famous engineers and inventors Sir Hiram ...

    Article : 665 words
  4. SAYINGS FROM BRITISH NEWSPAPERS.

    Sir Douglas Haig's batle plans unroll themselves like some mighty piece of music How many movements there are, or where and when the finale will be played, who can tell ...

    Article : 69 words
  5. LETTING THE CLOCK DO THE COOKING.

    If the servant problem is to be solved in the modern American home, the solution will no doubt be in the extensive application of electricity. Just now a leading American ...

    Article : 743 words
  6. "THE PEACE OUR DOMINIONS WANT."

    Will Britain's Oversea Dominions be allowed a voice in settling the terms of peace by which this great world war will ultimately be concluded? Does not the part ...

    Article : 997 words
  7. HUMOR PARS.

    Visitor from Tana: What an carth's the matter with this hen? She starts attacking me when I try to take the egg from her nest. Look here, you silly thing here is my egg ...

    Article : 997 words
  8. NERVOUSNESS OF THE ENEMY PRESS.

    It shows itself in the form of sentimentality upon the one side and incoherent statements upon the other... It is shrieking—"Land and Water," ...

    Article : 33 words
  9. A SUGGESTION FOR THE GREEK KING.

    It is Known that no likes Eastbourne. The king could gracefully retire to Eastbourne for rest and recuperation, leaving M. Venizelos in charge.—"Liverpool post." ...

    Article : 33 words
  10. OUR SOLDIERS.

    "That's a jolly nice car you've got, sir, if I may say so." "Tisn't mine, dear boy, it belongs to my orderly."—"London Opinion." ...

    Article : 33 words
  11. HANDS OFF GOLD STRIPES.

    The vertical gold stripe on some of the new coats worn by women is bringing an honourable decoration Into contempt."—Lady's Pictorial." ...

    Article : 28 words
  12. CLEVER NURSE.

    Crafty Nurse (to soldier who won't eat his pudding): "Come, now, don't you think you could just nibble off that salient!" Soldier (pricking up his cars): "Of course, ...

    Article : 43 words
  13. OLD TIME.

    It will be quite pleasant to find oneself going to bed at eleven when but for a paternal Government it would have been twelve.—"Field." ...

    Article : 29 words
  14. ENGLISHMEN AND IDEAS.

    The average man is still as ready to sacrifise the fresh idea to the idea as ever. No scones has he got hold of a true idea indeed than he turns it into a fixed idea, ...

    Article : 49 words
  15. GLAD TO BE PRISONER.

    A chaplain from the front narrates that he met a wounded German in our trenches. Knowing only two German works. he said to him, "Nun danket," and the German ...

    Article : 46 words
  16. MR. DUKE.

    Mr. Duke has spent the whole of the recess in Ireland—almost as long a time as Mr. Birrell did during his years of office, and he has won golden opinions on all sides ...

    Article : 44 words
  17. THE MODERN SPIRIT.

    1 'Aren't you the boy who was here a week ago looking for a position."' "Yes, sir." "I thought so. Aud didn't I tell you then ...

    Article : 45 words
  18. WHAT TO DO WITH OUR WOUNDED.

    What is to become of the professional man who has lost his skilled right hand ½ Are we to ask him to become a porter at a club because he can to this work with one arm [?] ...

    Article : 51 words
  19. THE WAY OF THE WINDS.

    O [?] spots and shady, O beaches wind—caressed! The Nor'-cast wind's a lady In silks and sunshine dressed, ...

    Article : 134 words
  20. HEAVY HOWITZERS ON THE BRITISH FRONT.

    With the opening of the great Battle of the somme at the beginning of july, the mitintive on the western front passed from, the Germans to the French and British. During the ...

    Article : 423 words
  21. GOETHALS' DEFENCE OF THE PANAMA CANAL.

    Colonel Goethals has made a final report to Secretary of War Baker upon the slides in the Panama Canal, which, must carry conviction to everyone who reads it with an open ...

    Article : 426 words
  22. GERMAN CRUELTY.

    Grim experience prevents Londoners from [?] the Zeppelin raids as a joke, or from enering at those who confess to a haunting continued terror. "He jests at sears who ...

    Article : 189 words
  23. COUNTRY CIRCUS.

    The parade down Main Street. The uniting in line. The suffocating sideshows. The Tattooed Turk. ...

    Article : 183 words
  24. TO THE MEN OF FRANCE.

    An American writes some remarks to Life, N.y.:— We should like to think, and indeed, we sometimes do, that we are of the same clay ...

    Article : 252 words
  25. MISDIRECTED LABOUR.

    Some owners of cars keep their drivers so busy polishing up the outside of their cars that be has no time to devote to the internal, and although the car of to-day appears to be ...

    Article : 150 words
  26. SUGGESTION TO FATHERS.

    It is with regret that the father of Mary Jones is obliged to return the enclosed proposals of marriage, In doing so he desires to thank the anther for submitting them, and ...

    Article : 91 words
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