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  2. TOPSY-TURVYDOM IN CHINA.

    “How funny!" exclaim my friends, when they are told that the Chinese laugh at our big noses. “Why! we laugh at their flat ones!” ...

    Article : 433 words
  3. WHY GROW OLD?

    Why get old? Well, you reply, you really cannot help it. Yes; but age isn’t measured merely by birthdays. There are two other and far ...

    Article : 274 words
  4. THE GREATEST LOSS.

    I read it somewhere, just one of those little scraps of philosophy or jangles of verse which find a nest for themselves in the brain, and come ...

    Article : 449 words
  5. SLOW CANNON BALLS

    In the last half of the eighteenth century there were many experiments with gunpowder in efforts to develop more fully killing instruments. ...

    Article : 115 words
  6. ONE MAN’S MEAT IS ANOTHER MAN’S POISON.

    What an interesting world we live in, and what a variety of people we meet every day, all absorbed in separate interests, pursuits, and ...

    Article : 1,142 words
  7. COMPULSORY HOLIDAYS.

    There are people who have to take holidays, whether they like it or not. Clerks in the Civil Service are entitled to an annual holiday by Act ...

    Article : 128 words
  8. WHEN IS A PUFF ADDER—?

    One often hears the expression “nearly scared to death” used, but it is not often that the ordinary individual, even if rather frightened, ...

    Article : 907 words
  9. “MAKEE DO.”

    The barber, may be making fortunes out of bobbed hair, but the man who smokes a pipe is sad. When his pipe gets choked, it is now no ...

    Article : 398 words
  10. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    Glass was first manufactured in England in 1457. Visitor: “What nice furniture!” Little Arthur: “Yes I think the ...

    Article : 723 words
  11. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    The most difficult of all stains to remove are coffee stains, but with care they can be cleaned from the most delicate silk or woollen fabrics, ...

    Article : 676 words
  12. STRANGE YET TRUE.

    There are more than 2,000,000 blind people in the world. According to a scientist, 2,300 silkworms produce 1lb. of silk. ...

    Article : 494 words
  13. SEARCHING FOR NAMES.

    There are times, of course, when circumstances and special considerations fix what a child’s name shall be. A well-to-do maiden aunt may ...

    Article : 515 words
  14. PEER WHO HEADED A REVOLT.

    Modern prison methods and enlightened justice have done away with such prisoners as Lord Massareene, an Irish peer, who spent ...

    Article : 441 words
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