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  2. WILD LIFE FROM THE AIR.

    Watching wild life from the air forms one of the fascinations of a flight across Africa. Here are one or two extracts from passengers’ ...

    Article : 541 words
  3. THE VALUE OF THE SEXES.

    Thomas Jefferson Putnam, who is connected with the Colorado Agriculture College, reports that his wife recently read to him the old scientific ...

    Article : 215 words
  4. BING CROSBY’S NEW SONG

    Most people believe that a song writer just sits down before the piano, like a stenographer at her typewriter, and automatically pecks out a new ...

    Article : 222 words
  5. BRITAIN’S MONUMENTS TO “GOODNESS.”

    Surprisingly enough, there have not been a great many statues to “goodness” erected in Great Britain. The monuments that have been put ...

    Article : 764 words
  6. WAITING AT HOLLYWOOD.

    “The moment having at last arrived, after much rehearsing, the actual ‘shooting’ begins. To an impartial critic from another planet or another ...

    Article : 370 words
  7. SEQUEL TO A DREAM

    I once set out to find a murder by motor-car. (writes a journalist). It happened in Cape Town. I had walked into the police department to talk with ...

    Article : 651 words
  8. DISILLUSIONMENT.

    Probably the first man who declared that he had done with women dwelt in a cave and, to relieve his wounded feelings. went mammoth-hunting, or ...

    Article : 478 words
  9. VALUE OF WATER AND WHEN TO DRINK IT.

    Do you drink sufficient water? Most people, it is safe to predict, do not realise the true value of a cup “from the crystal spring.” They drink tea, ...

    Article : 376 words
  10. GOOD ADVICE.

    A young man who signed himself as Rex asked the opinion of the editor of a journal as follows. He said:— At twenty-three years of age, I have ...

    Article : 263 words
  11. HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

    Women place a lot of faith in cosmetics and lotions, and so they should. Goodness knows where we should be without them, but the fact is often ...

    Article : 276 words
  12. A DOG’S SENSE OF SMELL.

    How many people realise that a dog relies upon its sense of smell as much as we do our sense of sight? A child becomes more and more ...

    Article : 259 words
  13. CURIOSITY OF CHILDREN.

    A certain amount of curiosity should be encouraged in young children; we expect them to be curious and we know there is something lacking when ...

    Article : 172 words
  14. YES, YES, GO ON.

    "Your answer means more to me than anything else in the world. My whole life depends on it will be affected and fashioned by it. I’ve been ...

    Article : 202 words
  15. SOME HINTS ON BOTTLING.

    Those who have never bottled fruits and vegetables before, and who intend to take up this profitable domestic hobby, are well advised to make ...

    Article : 200 words
  16. CAT AND DOG FRIENDS.

    There is a wonderful friendship existing between our pup and a neighbor’s cat, of which I am going to tell you. The dog is a little Australian ...

    Article : 201 words
  17. VITAMIN K HAS ARRIVED.

    Vitamins, which are named after the letters of the alphabet, have now reached the letter K. The new vitamin which bears this label is found in ...

    Article : 200 words
  18. KISS AND BE FRIENDS.

    “Kiss and be friends” — the magic words which ended so many childish quarrels and which now comes so easily from the lips of the modern young ...

    Article : 141 words
  19. THE VELVET RABBIT.

    He’s not supposed to be alive, and yet he’s real; He has an actual fluffy tail, and quite a rabbit squeal. ...

    Article : 280 words
  20. LAW-MADE MANNERS.

    In Madrid a person who gives money to a beggar in the street is liable to a fine. The penalty is from one to two pesetas; that is, from sixpence to a ...

    Article : 172 words
  21. PLAYING UP.

    Two schoolboys who always travelled by train to school did their best to secure an empty compartment. One day the train was just about to ...

    Article : 249 words
  22. Fair Exchange.

    Dobson: “I got a beautiful parrot for my wife yesterday.” Jobson: “If I could get a beautiful parrot for my wife I would make the ...

    Article : 256 words
  23. “PAPA” AND “MAMA” BANNED.

    Japanese school-children may no longer say “Mama” and “Papa.” These two words, which are now used practically all over the world, have been ...

    Article : 213 words
  24. TO MAKE YOU SLEEP.

    Experiments have recently been conducted by independent authorities to determine how far tea can be used as a dependable nightcap, and how it can ...

    Article : 248 words
  25. Proof-Positive.

    “And what makes you think that you have no chance with Miss Brown, Charlie?” “Well, Bill, she told me that it was ...

    Article : 176 words
  26. A WART CURE.

    Warts of long standing can be cured by this method: Squeeze the milky juice from dandelion flower stalks or leaf ends over the warts two or three ...

    Article : 91 words
  27. THIS BIT OF VICTORIA.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 117 words
  28. Advertising

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    Advertising : 45 words
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