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  2. Ladies' Column.

    The illustration shows three pleasant and practical frocks. Let the first be developed in a blue wool-silk mixture. Collar and cuffs of white ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 110 words
  3. The Cost of a "Tangi."

    An appeal to the Government of New Zealand to step in and represent to the Maoris the manifold ad antages of a pakeha (white ...

    Article : 263 words
  4. Money that Fights.

    Money talks, but it is also money that fights, and no question is of greater importance at such a time as this than that of the war chests of ...

    Article : 286 words
  5. How Holland would Fight.

    Should the Dutch, like the gallant Belgians, be called upon to resist the violation of their neutrality, they would, while calling upon their small ...

    Article : 353 words
  6. Toothless But Fierce Aard-vark.

    Did you ever see an aard-vark? Perhaps you know it better by its Latin name, Orycteropus? It was thought to be a myth until we ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 777 words
  7. A DEVASTATING PARASITE.

    In the State of Texas, where the chief supplies of raw cotton come from there is a small greenish-grey insect, only a quarter of an inch in ...

    Article : 386 words
  8. CIGARS AS LIFE-SAVERS.

    This may not be a sufficient excuse for cultivating a fondness for tobacco in general and expensive cigars in particular—if excuse be needed—but ...

    Article : 832 words
  9. War-Horses in Action.

    It will probably surprise you, said a retired colonel of Hussars, to learn that a cavalry horse usually enjoys a battle at least as much as his ...

    Article : 631 words
  10. Animals that Become Drunkards.

    Rats are extremely fond of spirituous liquors, which, perhaps, accounts for the large number always to be found in wine-cellars. The ...

    Article : 895 words
  11. KITCHEN WRINKLES.

    To remove rings from a swollen finger dip the finger in ice-cold soapsuds. Before cleaning knives on a ...

    Article : 441 words
  12. Making Fertilizers at Sea.

    An American boat, the Mills, of Philadelphia, represents perhaps the extreme instance of the employment on the ocean of electricity for ...

    Article : 233 words
  13. The Soldier's Test.

    Every one of us must have wondered how he would feel in battle for the first time. We may get some idea of how the average man feels in ...

    Article : 399 words
  14. HE KNEW THE WHOLE BUSINESS.

    A celebrated Hindoo snake-charmer had pitched his tent in the village. "Snakes, ladies and gentlemen," he said to an admiring audience, ...

    Article : 94 words
  15. Tracing Stolen Property.

    The man who pawns his witch in Cleveland will have to leave his finger-prints with "Uncle" if the chief of police of that city succeeds in his ...

    Article : 162 words
  16. HE PROVED IT.

    "My son," said the parson, to a small boy, who was digging in a back yard one Sunday morning, "don't you know that it is a sin to ...

    Article : 229 words
  17. When Paris Starved.

    During the last siege of Paris, in 1870-71, the craving for flesh food amongst the famishing people was so great that practically every known ...

    Article : 371 words
  18. Boy Who Beat the Kaiser.

    How he once had a fight with the Kaiser in the old English style and beat him is related by Mr. Alfred R. Price, hotel proprietor, Ilfracombe, ...

    Article : 304 words
  19. How to Paper a Room.

    Many home handy men and women have at some time or another a try at papering a room. Making a start in the darkest corner of the room, ...

    Article : 291 words
  20. A FLOATING COAL MINE.

    Most people would think, naturally enough, that the obvious way to discharge a coal cargo would be from the top. But, nowadays, it is ...

    Article : 312 words
  21. HORSES OF THE LLANDOS

    In describing the rich resources and the vast extent of half developed, or almost entirely undeveloped, country belonging to Brazil, the traveller ...

    Article : 133 words
  22. Thumbs of the Apes.

    The gorilla and chimpanzee, which belong to the higher order of apes, have many points of resemblance to man, but there is one thing they ...

    Article : 148 words
  23. POLAR BEAR AND HER CUBS.

    A party of whalers once chased a female bear and two cubs across a field of ice. The mother, anxious for her children, ran ahead every now ...

    Article : 138 words
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