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  2. An Antidote to War

    “If all men were gardeners, there would be no more wars,” says Mr. Beverley Nichols, writing in “Scribner’s Magazine.” He advocates ...

    Article : 361 words
  3. What Matters Most to Women?

    Pearson’s recently asked a number of well-known women. Here are their replies:— Eilen Wilkinson, M.P. ...

    Article : 931 words
  4. Strange Superstitions of the Sea

    Nearly all sailors will readily admit that, as a class, they are superstitious. The traditional superstitiousness of ...

    Article : 525 words
  5. Motor Cars and Science

    Who makes a motor-car comfortable? Not merely the mechanical engineer. Nor the physicist and chemist its who produce the metals, inbricants ...

    Article : 193 words
  6. No. 10 Downing Street

    Plain, fiat-faced, devoid of ornament to the point of ugliness. No. 10 Downing. Street is perhaps the most famous house in the world,” writes Mr. L, S. ...

    Article : 278 words
  7. The Real Home of Santa Claus

    It may surprise most people to learn than the headquarters of San Nicola, otherwise Santa Claus, are not up in Lapland among the reindeer, but are ...

    Article : 536 words
  8. Selected Recipes

    Baked Oranges, — Choose large oranges cut them into quarters without peeling them, then place them on a baking-tin in a moderate oven and ...

    Article : 355 words
  9. EAR TROUBLE.

    The human ear is a delicate organ and it is never safe recklessly to apply crude methods in the treatment of some disorder to it. ...

    Article : 198 words
  10. THE MIDGETS’ ROMANCE.

    Franz Ebert and Fritz Zink, midgets born in the same Rhine village, toured the world together as wandering buffoons. In 1914 they arrived at ...

    Article : 221 words
  11. THE KIND OF AIR WE BREATHE.

    More essential than the purity of the food we eat and water we drink is the air we breathe—yet we exercise little control over it. ...

    Article : 253 words
  12. HOME STUDY FOR COUNTRY COUSINS.

    Boys and girls in the country may not have the facilities for self-improvement possessed by their brothers and sisters in the city. At first sight, this ...

    Article : 495 words
  13. Suspicious.

    Two shady business men called upon a wealthy acquaintance and endeavored to interest him in a wild-cat scheme they had hit upon. ...

    Article : 415 words
  14. WHAT’S IN A CANE?

    To the average man, a cane is merely a wooden stick, usually bamboo. Mr. B. W. Cooke, who has what is probably the finest collection of ...

    Article : 136 words
  15. LARGEST ALL-WELDED BRIDGE.

    The largest all-welded bridge in the world has now been completed over the Rancocas River, New Jersey, U.S.A. It is a welded truss girder ...

    Article : 172 words
  16. MOVING A RIVER.

    To move a river so that aerodrome can be built seems to be a rather remarkable feat, yet that is what is to be done in France. The ...

    Article : 128 words
  17. Compliments.

    Two “perfect ladies” were discussing each other, and their remarks were anything but complimentary. At length one of them said, “You ...

    Article : 53 words
  18. SHORT-LIVED CITIES.

    An Egyptian city, built 1390 years before the birth of Christ, has been excavated by Mr. John Pendleton, at the head of a party of British scientists. ...

    Article : 257 words
  19. The Pacifist.

    “War is a curse and disgrace, it is an abomination and a blot on civilisation,” shouted Bifkins in the taproom of the Dewdrop Inn. ...

    Article : 220 words
  20. Bargain Hunting.

    “Do you carriage on parcels bought at your shop?” asked an old lady of a draper’s assistant. “Oh, yes madam,” was the reply. ...

    Article : 196 words
  21. Nothing Doing.

    Macpherson was changing his boarding-house, and when he arrived at the new one the landlady showed him to his room. ...

    Article : 171 words
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