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  2. TOO MUCH TIDINESS.

    “That place is so tidy I would go mad if I had to live in it,” a man said the other day, after paying a visit to a friend, whose wife had the ...

    Article : 109 words
  3. UNCHANGING WOMAN.

    How very often are we apt to think of the Middle Ages as hopelessly remote from our present-day life And yet the people who lived in ...

    Article : 193 words
  4. DEADLY SOIL.

    At a recent inquest it was stated that most of the lockjaw cases treated at the London Hospital come from Essex, where the soil is ...

    Article : 129 words
  5. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    The wise man gets a lot of free instruction from fools. The ideal husband is the man every wire could have married, but ...

    Article : 910 words
  6. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. A GAME OF CARDS.

    It was the close of a chill November day. The sullen grey mists that hung like a pall over the city had turned into a dreary drizzle of sleet ...

    Article : 1,097 words
  7. HAMPSHIRE "FAGS.”

    The English newspapers have recently been demanding a reduction in the price of tobacco, seeing that the profits of a certain tobacco ...

    Article : 168 words
  8. WORLD'S WONDER SHIP.

    Third-class passengers have been very happy during a trip they have just completed to New York. They have had their own dancing-hall, an ...

    Article : 145 words
  9. BRITISH BRAINS BEST.

    An investigation into the comparative intelligence of different races has been made recently by an American scientist, Prof. Carl C. Brigham, ...

    Article : 135 words
  10. PEARLS FROM COCO-NUTS.

    Did you know that pearls are sometimes found in coco-nuts? Coco-nut pearls are very rare, and when found are highly prised. They ...

    Article : 242 words
  11. FLOUR THAT MAKES GIANTS!

    It is stated that Dr. Victor G. Heiser, director in the Far East of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, is ...

    Article : 239 words
  12. OUR MIXED LANGUAGE,

    When the Normans conquered. England and dispossessed the AngloSaxons of their lands they spoke what was known as Norman-French. ...

    Article : 153 words
  13. CLOTHES MAKES THE MAN.

    “I wish. I were a man!” Many women have.echoed that desire, and not a few have, with greater daring, sunk their sex and lived as men. ...

    Article : 129 words
  14. TREASURE FROM THE SEA.

    To the expert the delicate odour of choice perfumes brings visions of the sea—of whaling ships, old wharves, and barrels reeking of blubber and ...

    Article : 682 words
  15. LEGACIES TO ANIMALS.

    The marine store dealer at Macclesfield who bequeathed £1 a week for the maintenance of a horse adopted a simple method of ensuring his ...

    Article : 167 words
  16. UNFINISHED LONDON.

    According to a recent announcement, the County Hall, Westminster, will not be fully, completed for another half a century. This is not the ...

    Article : 164 words
  17. OUR PERVERTED PROVERBS.

    Many of the proverbs in constant use are obviously nonsense. Others have a certain point, although it may be very different from that ...

    Article : 346 words
  18. THRILLS ON TELEPHONE POLES

    Climbing a telephone pole, does not look either exciting or dangerous, but occasionally things happen to the telephone man which unpleasantly ...

    Article : 558 words
  19. SPORTS IN THE FORCE.

    Every motorist will be interested comes from Wigan. It seems that a in a story of furious driving that charabanc there attracted the ...

    Article : 209 words
  20. “’TWAS A FAMOUS VICTORY!”

    “It is a great day for England," said William IV, as be lay on his death-bed on June 18th, 1837, and listened to the guns firing for the ...

    Article : 164 words
  21. LEAKAGE FROM THE LAKES.

    A great deal of concern is being felt in Canada over the lowering of the water of the Great Lakes, and a strong protest has been entered ...

    Article : 274 words
  22. TREES TO SWEETEN TEA.

    The existence in British Columbia of sugar-bearing fir trees has now been definitely established. It had been believed for some time ...

    Article : 204 words
  23. THE PRAYING MANTIS.

    It is estimated that the American farmers’ loss through the ravages of insect pests now reaches the enormous total of £400,000,000 a year. ...

    Article : 188 words
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