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  2. LATCH-KEY LORE.

    Most of us, when we use a latch-key in entering a house, have no thought of the historical significance of the action. Yet the latch-key has a ...

    Article : 221 words
  3. BIRDS THAT TOPPLE STEEPLES.

    The recent stoppoge of a church clock at Stoke Golding, Leicestershire, due to jackdaws having built their nests in the works, is a reminder how ...

    Article : 228 words
  4. WHITE BREAD AND DISEASE.

    A committee of eminent doctors and food experts set up in London in connection with the People's League of Health, has just reached the ...

    Article : 284 words
  5. HOW TO PLAY GOLF.

    You must not imagine for a moment that because you "play" 'at golf, that golf is a joyour, light-hearted game like Tiddly-winkd or Straphanging. ...

    Article : 1,212 words
  6. BROADWAY AFTER DARK.

    Broadway is used to gorgeous affairs, and it takes something out of the ordinary to cause even a ripple on its surface, but the Actors' Equity Ball, ...

    Article : 238 words
  7. POWER THAT MOVES THE WORLD.

    As you travel by 'bus, charabancs, or, for that matter, any other form of motor transport, do you ever think of the romance of the fuel, which provides ...

    Article : 674 words
  8. BOOKS AND WRITERS.

    The tenth edition of Arthur W. Jose's really excellent "History of Australia" has Just been published by Angus and Robertson, with many ...

    Article : 289 words
  9. WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.

    An amusing story is told of a certain veteran officer who saw a young recruit in a training-camp trying to cook his breakfast at a badly made ...

    Article : 121 words
  10. BEING A VAMP.

    "They've cast me as a vamp again," sighed Evelyn Brent, the lovely brunette who plays the role of the dancer in the Fox picture "The Arizona ...

    Article : 206 words
  11. TIT FOR TAT.

    It is said that at a pre-war dinner to some Balkan chiefs, a gold watch disappeared. The Prime Minister of Bulgarie placed a silver bowl on the ...

    Article : 157 words
  12. MILK DIET FROM A MICROBE.

    There was recently a international gathering in what is claimed to be the most famous field in the world—the grass meadows of the Rothamsted ...

    Article : 271 words
  13. "The Spell of the Inland."

    John Armor has set out in his novel "The Spell of the Inland," to paint a picture of life in central Australia, and at the same time to tell an interesting ...

    Article : 176 words
  14. THE CONFIDENT DRIVER.

    An eminent K.C. tells this story with great good humor. He was driving in a "taxi" to the Law Courts when his cab was run ...

    Article : 152 words
  15. WAITING FOR THE FUN.

    An elderly gentleman, clad in an immaculate suit of black, was seated on a bench in the park, enjoying the lovely breeze. A small boy sat on ...

    Article : 593 words
  16. CUTTING!

    On certain golf courses the presence of rabbit-holes adds to the natural difficulties. A beginner who had tried the ...

    Article : 113 words
  17. Test Cricket.

    To lovers of the noble game of cricket the dates and facts of historic games, and the records of historic players, always hold a big interest. ...

    Article : 158 words
  18. WHAT HE MISSED.

    The superintendent of the Sunday school was illustrating for the children the text, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee ...

    Article : 491 words
  19. A NEW KIND OF PERCH.

    "No, no, no," said the teacher, growing somewhat exasperated, "a hyphen is a little dash which one employs when writing, to join together two ...

    Article : 146 words
  20. GREEDY!

    There was an alluring tenderness in the evening breeze, and the passengers on the pleasure steamer, having just finished a good dinner, were enjoying ...

    Article : 83 words
  21. "New Friends in Old Chester."

    Margaret Deland has a peculiar gift of being able to tell stories of simple life in a way not only to make the people live, but to invest their whole ...

    Article : 196 words
  22. PAPER MONEY PERILS.

    Infectious diseases may be spread by paper money more frequently than by any other article in everyday use. It has been found that coined money ...

    Article : 108 words
  23. THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD.

    In the course of a reading lesson, a master received a very smart answer from one of his little people, though possibly the wit was unconscious. ...

    Article : 90 words
  24. FRANKIE'S REASON.

    As Frankie stood beside his mother, who was making some purchases the greengrocer told him to help himself to a handful of nuts. But Frankie shook ...

    Article : 104 words
  25. EDGAR'S SUGGESTION.

    Little Edgar was a sore trial to his mother, for he had acquired the habit —a habit shared among the majority of small boys—of continually ...

    Article : 136 words
  26. BARTHELMESS DOES DUTY.

    Richard Barthelmess plays the part of a taxi driver in "Twenty One." He wears a regulation uniform, licence badge, and all the other ...

    Article : 282 words
  27. "Her Father's Daughter."

    Gene Stratton Porter's popular novel, "Her Father's Daughter," is published in cheap, compact, pocket-size edition and is most convenient for ...

    Article : 133 words
  28. HIS SECOND ATTEMPT.

    He was a poor, downtrodden specimen of humanity and the heart of the millionaire merchant was touched. He stopped for a moment to listen to the ...

    Article : 210 words
  29. THE OFFER DECLINED.

    Dejectedly twirling his thumbs, the clerk sat in the box-office of the Frivolity Theatre. A depressing air of failure hung over the theatre, and it ...

    Article : 151 words
  30. WHAT UPSET HIM.

    "What's the matter with you?" asked the army doctor. The recruit, who had been on the sick list ever since he had enlisted, ...

    Article : 118 words
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