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  2. BITS OF LIFE POOR BOYS WHO ROSE TO FAME.

    LORD Inchcape's reference to his early struggles when, as a boy, he worked long hours for a weekly wage that to-day would be resented as a up by a head ...

    Article : 366 words
  3. THE "MONKEYS" OF MAYFAIR.

    ARE you a monkey? If you hear one society girl saying this to another, do not be alarmed (writes a London "Daily Chronicle" woman correspondent) ...

    Article : 247 words
  4. WOMEN THE WEAKER SEX.

    THROUGH sheer force of habit, we still refer to women as "the weaker sex." But to-day there is the dawning of a misgiving that the phrase is a libel rather ...

    Article : 187 words
  5. STRANGE PARIS RESTAURANT.

    STRANGEST of restaurants in Paris must be this one—the meal can be arranged only by correspondence. You must write ahead and ask if you may ...

    Article : 106 words
  6. A RESURRECTED FROG.

    I Have just seen the demonstration of a drug that will restore the dead to life (telegraphed Reuter's Calcutta correspondent on December 2). ...

    Article : 184 words
  7. CLIPPER SOLD FOR £200.

    A Full-rigged clipper ship, 24ft. long, of the type that once made the United States the speed mistress of the seas, was sold for £200 at an auction of marine ...

    Article : 81 words
  8. The Strangle Hold.

    Transmission from 6WF. has been scathingly criticised, but reformative suggestions have been ignored by the Postal Department, whose Director (Mr. Brown) declares the West Australian broadcasting service "satisfactory." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
  9. MORE "HOWLERS."

    SOMG amusing "howlers," culled from examination papers of boys at the school, are given in the current issue of the magazine of Ardingly College (Sussex). ...

    Article : 213 words
  10. THE DANGERS OF KISSING.

    IN Soviet Russia an official campaign has been inaugurated against kissing. Postcards that bear the Lenin stamp carry also the inscription, "Think before you kiss, ...

    Article : 232 words
  11. CURATE'S UNEARNED WAR MEDALS.

    A Curate at St. Mary's Church, Balha[?] England, the Rev. Samuel Lynn Thomas, M.A., was fined £10 and £5/5/ costs at South-Western Police Court, ...

    Article : 217 words
  12. CHAMPAGNE CIDER ISLAND WRECK.

    WRECKED on a lonely island stocked with 100,000 bottles of champagne eider—that was one of many thrilling experiences of 34 members of the crew of the ...

    Article : 214 words
  13. SPECULATION FEVER IN U.S.A.

    IT happened that Mr. Winston Churchill was in New York at the height of the recent Wall-street panic. In a special article contributed to the "Daily ...

    Article : 188 words
  14. "BIG BROTHERS" IN U.S.A.

    "IF every thinking man gave 15 minutes of his time each day to a little brother, there would be no crime problem," according to Colonel Poulter, one of the founders ...

    Article : 164 words
  15. 57,000 KINEMAS.

    TNTERESTING information concerning the development of the film industry is given in a document issued by the International Labour Office at Geneva. ...

    Article : 126 words
  16. FORBIDDEN FRUIT.

    YOU are not entitled to the fruit from a neighbour's tree overhanging your garden. The rights of both sides in such a case were defined in a judgment of Mr. ...

    Article : 169 words
  17. THE "UNKNOWN WARRIOR."

    HOW the idea of the Unknown Warrior's Tomb in Westminster Abbey first came to him in billets near Armentieres early in 1916 is told in the "Heaton ...

    Article : 228 words
  18. STRICT TRAFFIC LAITS.

    DRUNKEN motorists will not be tolerated in Ontario. Arrangements have been completed by the Ministry of Highways and the Liquor Control Board for ...

    Article : 93 words
  19. HUMAN COST OF U.S.A. CRIME.

    BESIDES the toll the Uuited States pays to crime in cash, consider for a moment her loss in the more precious currency of human lives. Consider that last ...

    Article : 96 words
  20. ROBOT AS "OFFICIAL GREETER."

    VISITORS to tue museum of the Peaceful Arts in New York are greeted by a robot which says to them in a pleasant voice, "Will you please register?" as they ...

    Article : 89 words
  21. "HE LIVES IN DEATH."

    A Durham (England) returned soldier passes every day on his way to work a war memorial on which his name is engraved as one of the fallen. He has no ...

    Article : 76 words
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