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  2. Our Daily Bread.

    The average person's knowledge of bread is very limited. He knows that it is made of flour—or supposed to be. ...

    Article : 340 words
  3. Ladies' Column.

    There's a very popular song in one of the revues which tell us that "Every mother loves her baby." But there are lots of little things ...

    Article : 287 words
  4. Moses and Sanitation.

    There has been gathered a collection of facts to prove that the sanitary laws of Moses were not only on a line with the modern rules of ...

    Article : 240 words
  5. What Germany Has Not Done.

    The dismal and gloomy pessimists, who, like the Fat Boy, are always trying to make our flesh creep with stories of Britain's mismanagement ...

    Article : 384 words
  6. CHARMED LIVES.

    "But you may take it," my officer friend wound up, "that what's most impressive out there is the ordinariness of everything. I mean, we get ...

    Article : 1,465 words
  7. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    A young and inexperienced curate was officiating at a christening in a small fishing-village in the North. The proud father a young fisherman, ...

    Article : 167 words
  8. WHY THE PARSNIPS DIED.

    "Do you know my boy, they have some wonderful things out in America?" ca?" "Yes, so I've heard." ...

    Article : 147 words
  9. Bagpipes in Battle.

    "As the men bombed their way along the German trenches after the first rush, two of the Black Watch pipers stood upright on the parapet ...

    Article : 583 words
  10. TREACLE PARKIN.

    Required: Two pounds of treacle or golden syrup, half a pound of moist sugar, not quite half a pound of butter, and two ounces of new ...

    Article : 156 words
  11. OFF AND ON.

    Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is fond of relating a very funny experience she once had during her early days as an actress with an actor who was ...

    Article : 225 words
  12. Newspaper "Scoops."

    Naturally the secrets of foreign policy are peculiarly precious, and as a rule, they are guarded to a corresponding extent. Yet it was with ...

    Article : 333 words
  13. Aerial Dreadnoughts.

    We have been hearing a lot about German super-aeroplanes, carrying a large crew and two or three machine-guns. What truth there is in ...

    Article : 282 words
  14. SPICED OATMEAL PUDDING.

    Put into a basin twelve ounces of fine oatmeal and half a pound of ordinary flour, add a little salt, a small teaspoonful each of ginger and ...

    Article : 101 words
  15. WORKING MICE.

    Years before these little rodents became what is now known by the collective title of "fancy mice," there was a Scotsman of the name of ...

    Article : 504 words
  16. A CHILDREN'S DINNER.

    The faculty recommend light suet puddings for children, and if well made and served with some good brown gray, meat is not essential. ...

    Article : 127 words
  17. NOTICE TO HOTEL GUESTS.

    The following is a copy of the rules posted up in a well-known hotel in the Far West of the United States. Gents going to bed with their boots ...

    Article : 192 words
  18. BROWN GRAVY.

    Required.—One onion, half a carrot, half a turnip, a little parsley, an ounce of butter, a pint of water or broth, a dessertspoonful of flour, ...

    Article : 114 words
  19. Courage Above Cowardice

    A relative of mine—now a sergeant aged 24—was as nervous as a child. When he left for the front, twelve months ago, he told me he knew he ...

    Article : 240 words
  20. "Up Guards, and At 'Em!"

    One morning our commanding officer addressed us. He said (I quote from memory) :— "Irish Guards, it is my duty to ...

    Article : 255 words
  21. SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT.

    An advocate of scientific management told the following tale the other day:— "Two men, stood watching a steam ...

    Article : 218 words
  22. A NICE SWEET SAUCE.

    This can be served with suet pudding for a change, Two tablespoonfuls of jam, half a pint of water, one dessertspoonful of sugar, a ...

    Article : 177 words
  23. HENPECKED.

    "My dear," said a thin little man to his wife, "this paper says that there is a woman down in Devonshire who goes out and chops wood ...

    Article : 104 words
  24. THE ONLY WAY.

    "Just from Ireland, are you? observed a friend to a Tommy recently at L.—And' were you trained across the water?" ...

    Article : 36 words
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