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  2. BRITISH INGENUITY AT THE FRENCH FRONT.

    British General Headquarters in France.—" Artillery activity continues on the western front." So read the official despatches. ...

    Article : 926 words
  3. PSYCHOLOGY OF CARNAGE.

    Stupor, intoxication, and madness have already become familiar to us as the concomitants s of modern warfare. At Loos, and again at Verdun, ...

    Article : 509 words
  4. THOUSANDS OF GUNS.

    "The great characteristic of everything we saw around, Verdun was guns, guns, guns." So writes the correspondent of the Niewe ...

    Article : 524 words
  5. GERMAN WAR TRICKS.

    In no war of which there are records have more ruses and tricks been resorted to than in the present gigantic contest. Here is an account of a few ...

    Article : 1,046 words
  6. LINER'S WAR SERVICE.

    With her holds crammed with silk, and with 537 passengors aboard, the big Canadian Pacific Occan Services trans-Pacific liner, Empress of Russia, ...

    Article : 1,116 words
  7. FOR WOMEN.

    May really attractive new hats have ostrich feathers on them. remarks a well-known fashion journal. One is really tempted to believe that feathers ...

    Article : 540 words
  8. DEARER MARGARINE.

    A large firm has raised the price of 6d. margarine to 7d. a pound, and other firms may follow the example. " The reason is that Holland is ...

    Article : 214 words
  9. WORLD'S LARGEST TELESCOPE.

    Director Hale, of the Mount Wilson Observatory, reports in a recent note that, at the close of the 1915 construction season, the steel dome ...

    Article : 100 words
  10. LUCK OF LOVE.

    A dreamer and a man of action loved a woman. The dreamer said. "I shall write verses in her praise ; they will touch her vanity and she will love me ...

    Article : 146 words
  11. THE BEST WHITEWASH.

    The whitewash is made by dissolving two pounds of ordinary glue in seven pints of water, and, when all is dissolved. adding six ounces of ...

    Article : 156 words
  12. AMATEUR MOVIES.

    Seeing themselves as others see them is one of the pleasures of motion picture actors, says Katharine Russeil Bleecker, in the New York Horald. ...

    Article : 644 words
  13. ARTIFICIAL SILK.

    What appears to be an original method of producing artificial silk is due to the Japanese inventor, Kishi. The process is based on the use of ...

    Article : 157 words
  14. PRESERVING FOOD.

    "In so far as good cooking consists in making the cheap as attractive and delectable as the most expensive, the enlinary art in China is far ...

    Article : 289 words
  15. TO WASH AND MEND JERSEYS

    Every year sees the jerseys becoming more and more popular for small boys and girls. Nor is the reason far to seek . The jersey provides warmth ...

    Article : 377 words
  16. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 494 words
  17. THE HORRORS OF WAR.

    A refugee from Verdun narrates the following episode of the fighting in the wood of Caures, near the village of Beaumont. Here, he says, a ...

    Article : 452 words
  18. CHANCES OF A TRENCH EPIDEMIC.

    The British forces in France and Belgium have been engaged for more than a year in stationary operations. The terrain of their occupation is flat, and ...

    Article : 199 words
  19. V.C. FOR A CURATE.

    The king has conferred the Victoria Cross on Rev. Edward Nocl Mellish, temporary chaplain to the forces, formerly curate of St. Paul's, Deptford, ...

    Article : 180 words
  20. HOW COLDS ARE CAUGHT.

    The majority of people do not yet recognise the need of keeping apart from others in the event of colds. Mothers, however, ought to be on the alert ...

    Article : 148 words
  21. MARKETS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 127 words
  22. IMPLOSION.

    An implosin, as the term indicates, is, we are told, the direct opposite of an explosion. The conditions most favourable for the ...

    Article : 80 words
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