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  2. The Joys of Walking

    “When all is said, there is probably no vehicle that gives you so much for your mileage as your feet. Feet are good for any going except that whose ...

    Article : 305 words
  3. People We Like to Avoid

    The importance of details cannot, of course, be too greatly stressed in matters where figures are concerned, and even in more frivolous things such as ...

    Article : 420 words
  4. Persia Looks to the West

    Persia (now, by the Shah’s decree called Iran) has always allured the European who see Romance in the East and thinks of Omar, the bulbul, ...

    Article : 400 words
  5. [Short Story] She Stooped to Conquer

    The guard’s Svhistls shrilled. Instantly a score of hands dived into packages, and, as the train gave a preliminary shudder of movement and ...

    Article : 839 words
  6. Strange Wills

    Some time ago a will was admitted to be legal which was written on the back of a Treasury note. Some strange unci unconventional wills have been ...

    Article : 270 words
  7. Mistaken Unselfishness

    Are you duty-bound? Then for pity’s sake do something about it just as quickly as you can. It will grow on you if you don’t. I've known marriages ...

    Article : 507 words
  8. Different Things With Junket

    Junket and Jelly. — A dainty method of serving junket beloved by young children, is to place bits of colored jelly in glasses and pour the ...

    Article : 459 words
  9. LIFE AND DEATH CLOCK.

    Every five minutes, the steel hammer of a great clock in Berlin tolls nine strokes, indicating that nine babies are born on an average during ...

    Article : 97 words
  10. IMAGINATION.

    Imagination is a much misunderstood and widely-abused quality. Some people speak of it as if it were a mild form of mental disease, or, at the very ...

    Article : 242 words
  11. A HARD SNEEZER.

    William Brown, chopping wood in a labor camp of Idaho, U.S.A., felt a twitching of his nose, paused a moment in his work, sneezed. He sneezed ...

    Article : 128 words
  12. MOTOR CARS DRIVEN BY SAWDUST.

    England is now making petrol from coal, but Germany has, gone one better by using sawdust to drive motorcars. ...

    Article : 160 words
  13. THE FILM STUNT MEN.

    R. L. Stevenson once wrote a story about a suicide club, but in Hollywood there is one that is grim fact. They are the stunt men who risk ...

    Article : 294 words
  14. GRAMMAR MADE ENJOYABLE

    A noun’s the name of any thing, As school or garden, hoop or swing. Adjectives tell the kind of noun, As great, small, pretty, white or ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. DANGER FROM THE SKY.

    Hundreds of keen pigeon fanciers assembled to watch five hundred prize ‘homers” in Philadelphia recently. Amid cheers, the pigeons, carrying ...

    Article : 120 words
  16. Hard to Follow.

    “Well, my dear sir,” said the medical man, beaming at his new patient, “and I suppose you Followed my prescription?” ...

    Article : 58 words
  17. WHAT SAILORS READ.

    The British Sailors’ Society, which runs an Ocean Library Service, have issued nearly a million books to ships, lighthouses and lightships. The books ...

    Article : 154 words
  18. UMBERTO NOTARI’S OPINION.

    “People like the British who eat five times a day and would rave if they could not gorge themselves with creams, marmalades, beef and whisky, ...

    Article : 97 words
  19. COINED WORDS.

    The most famous, and surely the most amusing is the origin of the word “bunkum.” During a debate in the U.S.A. Congress, the House was ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. Time to Get a Move On.

    Zoggins applied for a job at a high explosive factory. Having taken, and entered his particulars the clerk remarked, “In the event of accident to ...

    Article : 264 words
  21. The Chief Attraction.

    An elderly man approached one of the attendants in a travelling menagerie. “Can you tell me what the lnimp on the camel’s back is for?” he ...

    Article : 87 words
  22. Encouraging.

    An Irishman coming out of ether in the ward after an operation exclaimed audibly: “Thank heaven that is over!” "Don’t be so sure,” said the man in ...

    Article : 92 words
  23. Discretion.

    The passer-by stopped aud looked at the mail struggling vainly with his broken-down car. “Excuse me,” said the stranger, ...

    Article : 76 words
  24. THE OLD SONGS.

    The popular songs of the seventies and eighties—the rousing choruses grandfather still warbles sometimes in his cracked voice—are said to be ...

    Article : 179 words
  25. Misunderstood.

    Shy Young Man: ‘Have you seen ‘Crabbe’s Tales’?” Young Girl (haughtily): “I wasn’t aware that crabs bad tails.” ...

    Article : 159 words
  26. Change of Subject.

    An actor who had just returned to London from Hollywood buttonholed a friend in the street one day and talked interminably about his recent ...

    Article : 164 words
  27. Eye for an Eye.

    A small boy leading a donkey passed by an army camp. A couple of soldiers wanted to have some fun with, the lad. ...

    Article : 122 words
  28. Blooming Alone.

    Howson was showing a friend round bis garden. In a corner they came across a flower just opening. “Ah,” enthused the friend. “It is a ...

    Article : 92 words
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