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  2. SOME BOY!

    From Canada comes news of a schoolboy of fourteen. james palmer, who stands 6 feet 6 inches in his socks, has a 52-inch chest, weighs 15 ...

    Article : 415 words
  3. CAN A WOMAN CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST?

    The news that three American girls, the oldest of whom is twenty, have started on a journey to the Himalayas, with the avowed object of climbing ...

    Article : 345 words
  4. A FATHER’S WORRY.

    I can never understand the minds of some people. What is there peculiar about life that its facts should not be made known and explained to ...

    Article : 521 words
  5. YOUR HANDS.

    Beautiful hands are an enviable possession. some artists count them more important than a lovely face. They tell so much of character in the ...

    Article : 558 words
  6. The Great Anvil

    He spoke so sharply that the boy chanced at him nervously as he did that had been asked. patiently he waited for Carrathers to speak. But ...

    Article : 3,859 words
  7. A DANGEROUS HABIT.

    One of the commonest errors in matters of family health, Dr. C. O. Sappington, of the National Safety Council, states in a recent ...

    Article : 301 words
  8. PHILOSOPHY OF A WOMAN.

    My old man sold his old gold watch last week. DM well out of it, toogot one and nine. That builder chap over the road’s ...

    Article : 98 words
  9. TIGHT CORNER.

    A stout woman sat in a tramcar beside her husband. Another passenger entered, and the woman promptly moved over until she was almost on ...

    Article : 138 words
  10. BACK TO THE HOUR-GLASS.

    In one of the big down-town New York banks, visitors wonder why so many desks are decorated with what seem at first glance to be tiny hourglasses. ...

    Article : 165 words
  11. NEW YORK PORT-PIRATES.

    “New York City's vast water—borne trade offers tempting prizes to the audacious thief and pirate,” writes Mr. Theodore Irwin. “The range of the ...

    Article : 455 words
  12. THE WIRELESS DOCTOR.

    There is a doctor in Canada who never sees his patients, and they never receive bills. All his diagnosing and treatment are done by wireless. ...

    Article : 228 words
  13. WHALES WANTED!

    A visitor to an old seaport town was out driving with his host. “What is the diet of all these people?” he asked. ...

    Article : 67 words
  14. SLEEPY?

    A sleeper is one who sleeps. sleeper is also the name given to a railway carriage in which a sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is also the name of ...

    Article : 107 words
  15. SMALL BOYS.

    I think it very wrong to fight When little boys go out to play, I’ve always said it isn’t right For blows to spoil a happy day. ...

    Article : 235 words
  16. LAST STRAW.

    A tourist was gagged and bound to a tree. A passer-by removed the gag and heard the victim’s story of how he had been [?] absolutely help ...

    Article : 243 words
  17. KEEPING IT DARK.

    A recent arrival at a boarding, house: had been a member of an expedition into the wildest parts of Africa. After meals he liked to recount to the other ...

    Article : 114 words
  18. HOWLERS.

    Herrings go about the sea in shawis. An axiom is a thing that is so visible that it is not necessary to see it. Abraham Lincoln was born in a little ...

    Article : 167 words
  19. FLATTERING.

    The minister called on Mrs. Mac-Shoddier. “By the way,” he remarked after a while, “I was sorry to see your has ...

    Article : 68 words
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