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  2. THROUGH THE PERISCOPE.

    Down in the interior of the submarine a sweating, exceedingly profane engineer did weird things with a gasolene-engine while the commanding ...

    Article : 967 words
  3. CAN GERMANY RID ITSELF OF KAISERISM?

    The following important pronouncements are due to Mr. A. Curtis Roth who was American Vice-Consul in Germany for many years, and nearly ...

    Article : 1,410 words
  4. AMAZONIAN ARCHERY.

    The uncanny skill of the Amazon Indians with poisoned arrows won the awed admiration of a traveller, who was cured of jungle-fever by the ...

    Article : 424 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE. COOK EXPLAINED.

    "June" said Mrs. Miggs to the intelligent-looking maid of industry, "it is Willie's birthday tomorrow and I am going to give him a party. ...

    Article : 182 words
  6. JAPANESE KNOTS.

    The Japanese have no use for buttons, buckles, or hooks and eyes. Cord serves every purpose of fastening, and furnishes artistic ...

    Article : 378 words
  7. TESTING A QUEEN'S VOICE.

    In the days of her youth the Queen of Roumania spent much time on the training of her voice, and, encouraged by flatterers, came to believe ...

    Article : 246 words
  8. SANDY'S EXTRAVAGANCE.

    Sandy had taken Jeanie to the village fair. They had seen all the "free shows," but there was a cinema entertainment for which a charge was ...

    Article : 130 words
  9. EATING THE LEEK.

    The man who has the privilege of dining for the first time with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers has to undergo something of an ordeal—that is, ...

    Article : 257 words
  10. TOOK THE TIP.

    Some time ago a millworker was in the habit of going to a public-house, after drawing his wages on Fridays, and soon his money was ...

    Article : 197 words
  11. BOA-HUNTING.

    A Frenchman resident in the Philippines who had never seen a wild boa in its native haunts, went out one afternoon, accompanied by two ...

    Article : 319 words
  12. BOASTFUL STORY OF GERMAN AIRMAN.

    A participant in an aeroplane raid on London gives a graphic story of the expedition. After describing the preparations, which included a short ...

    Article : 668 words
  13. LANGUAGE OF INSECTS.

    Insects, like birds and animals, have their calls. But the sounds they produce include the nubbing together of their limbs or wing covers and the ...

    Article : 322 words
  14. QUEER ARMY SUPERSTITION.

    The most generally-accepted superstition among soldiers is that of the danger of using one match to light three cigarettes. It is a crime ...

    Article : 205 words
  15. DEMONSTRATED HIS PROWESS.

    There was once a Scotch former famed for his strength who was often challenged by people at a distance who had heard of his ...

    Article : 135 words
  16. SETTLING THE CLERGYMAN.

    Passing through one of the bystreets of Edinburgh one day a clergyman saw a particularly roughlooking coalman of gigantic stature ...

    Article : 290 words
  17. WHY HANDS ARE LINED.

    Several theories have been lately advanced to explain the corrugations of fingers, palms and soles, but the most plausible one is that expressed ...

    Article : 159 words
  18. THE CAMERA AS DETECTIVE.

    The camera has been frequently instrumental in the detection of crimphy is invaluable, for there is no inals. In cases of forgery photogra ...

    Article : 313 words
  19. WHEN COUNTERFEITERS WERE COUNTENANCED.

    Numerous methods have been adopted from time to time supplementing engaged in the present conflict, but it the currency of the various countries ...

    Article : 220 words
  20. IT WAS RIGHT.

    The Stone family were in dire distress, and little Jimmy was getting tired of it. Principally, he suffered from a surfeit of bread and dripping. ...

    Article : 147 words
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