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  2. WHO FIRST CAMOUFLAGED?

    A word that has quite vogue at the moment, but was probably never heard of until the outbreak of war, is "[?] o[?]flage"—the art of making ...

    Article : 182 words
  3. MENDING BROKEN SKULLS.

    The replacing of destroyed portions of skull n with layers of cartilage taken from the patient's own ribs is one of the latest methods of healing war ...

    Article : 186 words
  4. FEEDING THE ARMY.

    The problem of supplying [?] to the Army is one consideration [?] the official scale allows lib of meat per man per day to the ...

    Article : 552 words
  5. GERMAN COLONIAL METHODS.

    A significant illustration of the spirit and methods of German colonisation is to be found in the facts given by Fleet-Paymaster Cyril Cox, ...

    Article : 1,017 words
  6. FERTILISING EXPERIMENT.

    A suggestion has been made that farmers put carbonic acid gas (CO2) into their land as a cheap and valuable fertiliser. ...

    Article : 545 words
  7. KEEP OFF THE——!

    Roforna, New Zealand, is the centre of the volcanic region, and the whole of this region for miles around is in a state of thermal activity. In fact, ...

    Article : 306 words
  8. "TOO FAT TO RUN."

    Lord Esther, in a recent letter from France, relates the following excellent story about the French General Grossetti, who was buried ...

    Article : 519 words
  9. BEING BOMBED.

    If a bomb be dropped from an aeroplane 10,000ft. up, and travelling at a speed of 100 miles an hour, it reaches the ground a considerable ...

    Article : 345 words
  10. SURPRISED MEDICAL BOARD.

    A Canadian Army Medical Board was in consultation on a soldier whose disease had baffled the regimental doctor, Unusral symptom ...

    Article : 139 words
  11. A MATTER OF COLOUR.

    "The only thing I find to sav against you, Jane," said the mistress "is that your washing bill is far too much. Last week you had six blouses ...

    Article : 179 words
  12. IT WASN'T CRICKET.

    "How did your daughter pass her examination?" asked one mother of another. "Pass !" was the answer. "She ...

    Article : 123 words
  13. ONE-HANDED TYPISTS.

    Sir Arthur Pearson, describing, at the Inter-Allied Conference on Disablement, the training and re-education of blind ex-service men at St. ...

    Article : 109 words
  14. HINTS ON FLAX CULTIVATION WHEN GROWN FOR BOTH FIBRE AND SEED.

    In view of the many inquiries recently received regarding flax cultivation, it is considered advisable to give for the present a few brief hints ...

    Article : 534 words
  15. SGT.-MAJOR FLORA SANDES.

    Sgt.-Major Flora Sandes, of the Servian Army, the only British woman who has fought in the ranks in the present war, left Waterloo ...

    Article : 103 words
  16. UNEXPECTED TREASURE.

    It would be interesting to know the name of the most unlooked-for book encountered at the front. One that caused wonder to an orderly officer ...

    Article : 99 words
  17. MORAL SUASION.

    "Bless me!" said Tommy's grandfather. "Do you mean to say that your teachers never thrash you ?" "Never!" replied Tommy. "We ...

    Article : 71 words
  18. ABOUT COTTON.

    The American crop varies from eleven to twelve million bales per year. The world's consumption in ordinary times is over thirteen million ...

    Article : 264 words
  19. ARMY OF TEA DRINKERS.

    Tea is the favourite British drink in Mesopotamia. The British soldier in the Y.M.C.A. canteens there, says the "Englishman", will drink tea at ...

    Article : 133 words
  20. NERVOUS SHOCK FOR POISON.

    "Shock retards the action of drugs", says "Revue De Medicine." "Frogs in a state of shock from a blow on the head or an electric shock ...

    Article : 71 words
  21. THE VALUED SAFETY PIN.

    From the Red Cross canteens behind the lines in France comes the report that safety pins are among the articles most eagerly sought by the ...

    Article : 67 words
  22. HUMAN TOUCH IN TRADE.

    More of the "human touch" is wanted in business, said Lord Leverhulme, addressing the Institute of certified Grocers, in London recently. ...

    Article : 147 words
  23. AN OPTICAL ILLUSION.

    A Private, somewhere in France reported sick, with loss of sight, the medical officer went through the form of testing, placing the letters A, B, C ...

    Article : 114 words
  24. LEFT BEHIND.

    The spectacle of Aunt Chloe, an aged coloured women, smoking a pipo, was too much for the minister, who, fresh college was ...

    Article : 131 words
  25. FOR A WAGER.

    "What the matter with this mul's shoes?" asked the following blacksmith "I put them on day before yesterday, and they look all right to me." ...

    Article : 109 words
  26. TEETH TO BLAME.

    The worst criminals seem to be the teeth The Paris "Medical" takes a new fling at them, blaming them for sins usually charged to wronged, ...

    Article : 102 words
  27. THE SOLUTION.

    For two weary hours the small boy in the railway carriage had howled, and the occu., nts were getting tiled of it. ...

    Article : 67 words
  28. TWIG-LIKE.

    During a brief visit to the editorial rooms, Jones remarked:— "Do you Know, I fancy I have quite a literary bent" ...

    Article : 36 words
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