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  2. LIVING LONGER.

    You are lucky, in the first place, because life has so much more to offer you than it offered your parents and grandparents (writes Howard Jones ...

    Article : 734 words
  3. WHEN KISSING WAS ILLEGAL.

    Prior to Cromwell’s time, when an attempt was made to suppress kissing, it was a custom for a man to kiss his partner both at the beginning and ...

    Article : 438 words
  4. THE MAN WHO DROVE DOWNSTAIRS.

    On a high hill on the west bank of the River Danube stands what was formerly the Royal Palace of Hungary, surrounded by the ancient city of ...

    Article : 543 words
  5. [Short Story.] INDOLENT ARTHUR.

    There was no one in the entire set, called society, of Newdean but looked on with varying shades of interest at the growing attachment between Eva ...

    Article : 951 words
  6. THE VIRTUES OF MILK.

    Though it looks like a beverage, milk is really an important food. For human infants, however, it requires modification, and for human adults it ...

    Article : 238 words
  7. IF WE COULD MAKE GOLD.

    Our imaginations are frequently being stirred by yarns of “gold-makers” who claim to have discovered the secret of making gold. With the great ...

    Article : 517 words
  8. THE RAYS OF THE SUN.

    It is only within recent years that the health giving and curative value of sunlight has come to be more generally understood. Sunshine has a ...

    Article : 463 words
  9. NITROGEN FOR GARDENS.

    The most important and at the same time the most expensive element of plant food in garden soils is nitrogen. It is obtained in various forms., ...

    Article : 182 words
  10. WHO INVENTED THE CIGARETTE?

    When Sir James Barrie wrote about “My Lady Nicotine” he referred chiefly to the joys of pipe-smoking. But the phrase has a more literal ...

    Article : 388 words
  11. THE COME-BACK!

    The young husband flung up his head indignantly. “You’ve hurt my heart to the core, Emily!" he hissed. “After you saying a thing like that, ...

    Article : 454 words
  12. “QUICK-CHANGE” WONDER PLANE.

    A new wonder plane is to take its reliability tests in England within a few days. Built throughout of solid, case-hardened steel, it is a machine ...

    Article : 279 words
  13. HOW CARDS BEGAN.

    Card games have been popular in Europe since the Middle Ages, and there was a story that they were invented to beguile a mad king of ...

    Article : 101 words
  14. A MOTOR TO RUN ON AIR.

    Liquid air serves as fuel for one of the strangest motors ever built, which now is operating in a Japanese laboratory. Should it fulfil the hopes of its ...

    Article : 252 words
  15. NOT WORTH THE OFFER.

    “I was standing out in front one night,” said a theatrical manager, “when a ragged little urchin came along with a dog under his arm. The ...

    Article : 307 words
  16. WEIGHT OF DIAMONDS.

    Someone has reckoned that the weight of all the diamonds in the world is fifty tons. That is, of course, diamonds that have been dug ...

    Article : 187 words
  17. MIXED.

    “Makes washing a pleasure, does it?” said the customer, tossing a packet down on the counter. “Does the washing itself, does it? Just throw ...

    Article : 147 words
  18. A ROWING STATESMAN.

    The ex-Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bruce, had an amusing experience while playing golf at Rockhampton, England. His caddie was an elderly ...

    Article : 124 words
  19. THE REASON.

    Last week one of my little pupils came to her lesson with very dirty hands. “Oh, Betty, look at your hands!" I ...

    Article : 84 words
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