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  2. TROPIC NORTH PROBLEM.

    It is very generally acknowledged that the colonisation of Tropical Australia presents an important and difficult problem," said the former Bishop of North ...

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  3. TALKS ON HEALTH

    Water as an aperient. Wonderful! fancy, a simple remedy like that being any good! And yet, dear reader, it is true. Constipation is often the result ...

    Article : 178 words
  4. OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

    The prophet without honour is the man who doesn't know how to advertise.— Sir Thomas Dewar. ...

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  5. PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION.

    The tendency of public school education is to teach boys to act for themseves. Its weakness is that it does not always teach them enough to think for ...

    Article : 37 words
  6. AS OF OLD.

    The British race and spirit have not changed much since the days of our ancestors.—Vice-Admiral A. M. Farquhar. ...

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  7. "G.B.S." ON FORCIBLE FEEDING.

    It should be a penal offence to be poor, and .a hungry child seen in the street should be seized by a policeman and ruthlessly fed.—Mr. Bernard Shaw. ...

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  8. PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT.

    The wearers of petticoats must either govern their petticoats or tip petticoats must govern them.—Mr. Laurence Housman. ...

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  9. TAKING THE WATERS.

    Try drinking a large glass of water every morning and night. The best time to drink is between, meals. The food is digested by various chemical juices, ...

    Article : 227 words
  10. MOTORS AND MOTORING.

    I am writing these notes in the great International Show itself at Olympia, after a most careful and exhaustive examination of the exhibits. The 12th ...

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  11. BEAUTY IN TATTERS.

    A good book worn out oven by hard usage is one of the most beautiful sights in the world. Dr. T. E. Page. ...

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  12. A CITIZEN'S FIRST DUTY.

    Herr Debruak, the celebrated professor of history in Berlin University, has been giving lectures. in which he has pointed I out that the conquests by the Romans ...

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  13. A WORD FOR THE PUBLICAN.

    Temperance reformers are very ill-advised, not to say unfair, if they treat publicans as opponents of temperance. In the actual circumstances of the ...

    Article : 46 words
  14. FROM BRAIN TO FINGER.

    When I move my finger I perform a very complicated action. The bone of my finger cannot move itself; it is fastened to a tendon or leader. The tendon ...

    Article : 132 words
  15. ARE WE DECADENT?

    If we are in such a decadent state, which God forbid, that we are not able to produce enough men to defend our shores. what is the .use of calling ...

    Article : 49 words
  16. A PATRIOT FOR ALL THAT.

    It is possible for a man to feel the purest passion of patriotism and at the same time realise that war is an outrage upon common sense and humanity.— ...

    Article : 37 words
  17. THE STAGE AND THE STATE.

    The stage, like the state, is the creation of the church, or, I may say, or the religious life and conscience of a nation, and any divorce of either is the loss of ...

    Article : 44 words
  18. A QUESTION OF WILL-POWER.

    But even then we have not finished the story, because the brain will not order the movement until the gill has acted. I exert my will and the' finger moves. ...

    Article : 204 words
  19. SALVAGE MONEY.

    The nation will have to make up its mind to give considerably more out of central funds (for education). I hate any idea of increasing expenditure, ...

    Article : 103 words
  20. THE ANCHOR.

    The world is looking for men who have some strong religious conviction. The men who have none are worth nothing when they come across temptation in the ...

    Article : 32 words
  21. SHE WASN'T QUALIFIED.

    After preaching a sermon on the fate of the wicked, an English clergyman met an old Scotswoman, well known for her gossiping propensities, and said to he— ...

    Article : 94 words
  22. MENTAL LAZINESS.

    It requires an effort of will to get up in the morning. Are we patraiysed? Oh, dear no. Just will power. So when you call your husband in the morning ...

    Article : 285 words
  23. THE PARTY MAN.

    Is not every, devoted politician sincerely attached to party in this sense, that he believes that party represents the combination of honest men pursuing ...

    Article : 73 words
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  25. OUR RULERS.

    It is already almost a commonplace, and a comic commonplace, that representative government is less representative than anything else, and that the ...

    Article : 61 words
  26. HONOURS FOR SALE.

    As for honours, they are rapidly becoming anything but honours. They are sold at a price. I know of eases where a knighthood was sold for £5000, ...

    Article : 43 words
  27. LOST OPPORTUNITIES.

    It is often asked by fools why it is that in this life the race is not always to the swift. The reason is that some men, when a chance offers, have not the ...

    Article : 47 words
  28. THE MINISTER'S STOCK-IN-TRADE.

    A minister is not like a carpenter or a bricklayer who equips himself with the implements of his trade at the beginning of his working life once and for all. The ...

    Article : 64 words
  29. ILLITERATE GOVERNMENTS.

    The Governments of this country are extremely illiterate. They never know what has been written in their own country.—Mr. George Bernard Shaw. ...

    Article : 24 words
  30. SCIENCE AND PRACTICE.

    The practical linking up of scientific research and practical work without depriving the former of its independence is a subject of vital importance to the ...

    Article : 37 words
  31. LIMITS OF EDUCATION.

    The early age at which boys leave the elementary schools enables thorn to perform the duties of an errand boy, and to read cheap novelettes, but their ...

    Article : 56 words
  32. THE POINT OF VIEW.

    A clergyman, having performed the marriage ceremony for a couple, undertook to write out the usual certificate, but being in doubt as to the day of the month, he ...

    Article : 1,163 words
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