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  2. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

    There are nine kilted regiments in the British Army. In some of the Chicago public schools hoys are taught sewing. ...

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  3. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    The teacher had written on the blackboard the sentence, "The toast was drank la silence," and turned to her class for them to discover her ...

    Article : 55 words
  4. OCCULT GEMS.

    Despite the advances of civilisation and the high standard of twentieth-century education, it is surprising what a number of people still ...

    Article : 446 words
  5. RANDOM' READINGS.

    Forty Chicago septuagenarians have formed themselves into 3/4 "Club of Borrowed Time." With the object of outwitting Father Time, the following ...

    Article : 123 words
  6. THE ANCIENT HARP.

    The harp has been traced far beyond the Welsh and Irish nations into the remote antiquity' at Egypt and Assyria. In the eighteenth ...

    Article : 228 words
  7. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    "What is the matter with your wife? I see she's got her hand in a sling." "Reckless driving." "Horse?" "No, nail." ...

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  8. THE JEWS IN MEDICINE.

    The seemingly remarkable fact that during the Dark Ages the Jews were almost the only physicians is not so surprising when we consider that the ...

    Article : 370 words
  9. POOR PHYLLIS.

    Phyllis's grandpapa was coming to tea. He was very fond of toast, and be was Phyllis, but her mother told her she must wait until Grandpapa had ...

    Article : 76 words
  10. GUARDING STATE SECRETS.

    Every Foreign Office in Europe acts on the theory that an army of spies is constantly on the alert to steal its secrets, and infinite precautions are ...

    Article : 176 words
  11. EVADING PUNISHMENT.

    "Once again my orders have been disobeyed," said the master in a certain school sternly. "This matter shall be settled once for all, and if ...

    Article : 103 words
  12. AS HE FELL.

    Mrs. MacHaggis was visiting her husband, Dougall, in hospital. Dougall looking rather like a bundle of washing, lay back in bed ...

    Article : 149 words
  13. RAISING THE WIND.

    The other evening a bright urchin called upon a gentleman and asked for a donation towards the funds of a local juvenile football club. ...

    Article : 154 words
  14. LEGAL TOOTHACHE.

    A junior clerk in a solicitor's office who was off duty owing to toothache thus apprised his employers of the stern fact:— ...

    Article : 175 words
  15. SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY.

    "The guides who pilot visitors about in Norway," said a returned traveller, "are a pleasant, inteligent sot of men. They speak our ...

    Article : 199 words
  16. THE POPE'S COSTLY WARDROBE.

    The Pope is said to maintain in the Vatican the simplicity of the parish priest of Salanzo. But he cannot avoid being the most ...

    Article : 141 words
  17. KING HAROLD OF NORWAY.

    Many hundreds of years ago there was a famous boy king in Norway named Harold. Norway was then divided into many ...

    Article : 159 words
  18. WHERE SHE EXCELLED.

    Mr. Timidity once had the misfortune to figure as a defendant in a libel action, and since then he has been remarkably cautious with his ...

    Article : 188 words
  19. "BRAINS SUPPLIED HERE!"

    Is it possible to provide the feeble-minded with more brains until they are normal? Wild though the possibility may seem to tho lay mind, it ...

    Article : 345 words
  20. DONT'S FOR BOYS.

    Don't think it "girlish" to be gentle. "Don't call your father "the old man." ...

    Article : 166 words
  21. HIS SAFETY VALVE.

    The class was in one of its bad moods that afternoon. Time after time the master in charge had had to suppress uncalled-for merriment ...

    Article : 124 words
  22. LITTLE "SAINT" JOHN.

    A little boy, four years old, liked the story of "St. George and the Dragon," which his mother had been reading to him and his sister, and the next day ...

    Article : 249 words
  23. CONUNDRUMS.

    When is a schoolmaster like a man with one eye?—When he has a vacancy for a pupil. Why does a scolding woman keep ...

    Article : 180 words
  24. DECEIVERS EVER.

    "What an awful time you take to get ready, Mildred! I wonder your husband doesn't object to waiting." Mildred turned from the mirror ...

    Article : 135 words
  25. DEATHS FOR CRIMINALS.

    A well-known scientist, who for some years has been professor of chemistry in the College de France, Paris, has suggested the use of ...

    Article : 80 words
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