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  2. The SEED of EMPIRE

    It happened to be a Saturday after noon and a few miles away two of the leading clubs in the first division of the League were meeting to decide ...

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  3. Word Blindness.

    Two defects in regard to sight of great interest—word-blindness and color-blindness—are described by N. Bishop Harman in his book “The Eyes ...

    Article : 372 words
  4. “The Flag of Australian”

    The landing at Gallipoli, an achievement that excited the wonder and admiration of the military and civil up to the gallant deeds of our ...

    Article : 421 words
  5. Who Wrote Shakespeare?

    This year marks the 300th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. Most of us believe he wrote the famous plays which bear his ...

    Article : 762 words
  6. Amusing incidents.

    Tourist: I say, what are you people so proud about? The last time I came here everybody was very friendly, and now I can scarcely get a ...

    Article : 93 words
  7. Unfairly Handicapped.

    “You’re, a swindler!”exclaimed a garrulous lady to a dealer in birds. “You’re worse than” a highway robber! You ought to be ashamed of ...

    Article : 98 words
  8. A RIOT OF COLOR.

    To judge by the dimensions of the flower-seed trade—packets everywhere!—Australia, for many months every year, should be a garden of ...

    Article : 367 words
  9. A Likeness.

    It was a rural cricket match, and In the interval between one batsman’s dismissal and another’s arrival, the village blacksmith, who had been ...

    Article : 97 words
  10. Very Backward.

    The Neversleeps had just moved into the flat below that of the great Professor Fuddlehead, M.A., and, aided by a few congenial spirits, ...

    Article : 121 words
  11. WHY WEAR “SUNDAY” CLOTHES.

    To the harassed man casting about for some new method of drastic economy, the question, “Why wear ‘Sunday’ clothes?” ought to come as a ...

    Article : 383 words
  12. HIS TIGHTEST PLACE.

    “Pen, ” Sir George Alexander’s new comedy, is the fifth play which Mr. H. A. Vachell has had staged in London since the war began. This is a ...

    Article : 178 words
  13. Pat Scores Again.

    Recently in a small town in Ireland, the parish priest was seen remonstrating with a certain Pat Murphy, who was in the midst of abusing ...

    Article : 159 words
  14. THE MAKING OF LANOLINE.

    The Australian Minister for Customs recently called attention to the waste of millions of pounds of lanoline from the numerous wool ...

    Article : 268 words
  15. Home Sickness.

    The recruit walked into the barrack-room and inadvertently left the door open. An old soldier immediately yelled. ...

    Article : 147 words
  16. SUBSTITUTES FOR ABSORBENT COTTON.

    Several more or less successful cheap substitutes for absorbent cotton have been introduced since the European War began. One of these ...

    Article : 154 words
  17. THESE EGGS WILL NOT GO STALE.

    A remarkable discovery has just been made by Dr. Riddle, of the Carnegie Institution. After four years’ experimenting he has succeeded in ...

    Article : 222 words
  18. WHERE OUR HEROES LIE BURIED.

    It mustn’t be thought that officers and men killed at the front are buried in nameless graves if it is at all possible to prevent it. Behind the ...

    Article : 384 words
  19. MOTHER’S LOVE OF MEMORIES.

    She keeps them all in an old oak chest, And memories sweet they hold, A toy and a dolly in satin dressed, ...

    Article : 218 words
  20. No Free List.

    They were getting up a charity concert in the small provincial town and the committee determined to work hard to make a great sucess ...

    Article : 188 words
  21. Mrs. Binks—One and Two.

    The first Mrs. Binks was a country girl, a plain and homely she, and her mother would come to stay a week, but never stop less than three. While ...

    Article : 312 words
  22. A Canny Husband.

    Mr. Neil Kenyon, the comedian, is a great raconteur off the stage, and one of his favorite stories is about an old Scotswoman who lay very ill ...

    Article : 166 words
  23. Deeds, Not Words.

    Men Who can turn their hands to any sort of job that needs doing are very useful as husbands, Mr. Pickles was one of these useful gentleman. ...

    Article : 157 words
  24. It Went Home.

    It was a minstrel performance, and in the intervals between the songs the usual jokes were being perpetrated “What, am de difference between ...

    Article : 100 words
  25. Credit.

    Mrs. Le Squeak, whose husband, a distinguished lawyer, was noted for his straitened circumstances, was showing Miss Sharpe their magnificently furnished new house. ...

    Article : 21 words
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