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  2. TRAVEL SKETCHES.

    In my previous paper on Rome I touched upon St. Peter's and the other great patriarenal churches, and upon the priceless treasuics of the Vatican and upon some of ...

    Article : 1,390 words
  3. FORMOSA.

    "The Beautiful" is indeed an apt name for this island of many charms—mountains coming down almost to the sea, covered with a wealth of camphor and oleander trees in all ...

    Article : 532 words
  4. THE WASHING TALLY.

    In an old volume issued over 70 years ago there are records of many early English customs, and the story of the Washing Tally is one of these. These laundry devices date back ...

    Article : 1,440 words
  5. POSTMANS KNOCK.

    The papers told us the other day that "so concerned is the British Stationery Council with the prevailing lack of enthusiasm for penmanship that it has decided to launch an ...

    Article : 1,531 words
  6. THE BRIDGE AND CASTLE OF ST. ANGELO, ROME.

    Originally the Mausoleum of Hadrian, the structure was converted into a fortress by Belisarius, and afterwards became the castle of the Popes. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. THE IDEAL MOTHER.

    There is always a special place of love in the heart of everyone for mother, and right through the ages she has been honoured in verse and song. Even as far back as B.C. 491 ...

    Article : 114 words
  8. THE ESSEX RING.

    Queen Elizabeth is buried in Westminster Abbey in the same vault as Mary I. The two half-sisters, so sadly separated in life, are united in death. In the tombstone of Queen ...

    Article : 1,052 words
  9. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    The humming-bird is very small— No longer than your finger. He's curious, and must know all The neighbouring birds, he'll often call ...

    Article : 129 words
  10. AMERICAN SLANG.

    "The popular vernaculars," wrote Pearsall Smith, "are vast speech jungles, in which old forms are decaying and new ones continually springing into life." Such a speech jungle is ...

    Article : 1,013 words
  11. BLUE PENGUINS.

    There is a small beach neal Wollongong where it is possible to see penguins come in from their days fishing at sea and waddle up a sandbank to their burrows beneath a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  12. JUBILEE MORNING.

    It was morning, as yet not far spent. I looked from my window and I saw the craft lying in the bay; I saw cream houses nestling among the green of the foreshores; I saw ...

    Article : 201 words
  13. AUTUMN ELVES.

    There's a scene of tense excitement In the branches overhead. For the Autumn Elves are busy With their paints of gold and red. ...

    Article : 81 words
  14. SITHEAN BEG.

    It was in blest Iona's isle, When paganry lay wide, Holy Columba wandered forth One day at eventide. ...

    Article : 154 words
  15. "THE BLACK SHEEP."

    Pitch, although he was a black sheep, was the exception to the unpopularity usually associated with his kind, for, from the moment when he was first discovered calmly helping ...

    Article : 281 words
  16. "ANIMAL ANTICS."

    I wonder if a hornet Could ever play a cornet And then perhaps he'd pawn it, (What a rhyme!) ...

    Article : 114 words
  17. THE HUNTING LODGE.

    I suppose everyone icnows the handsome spider that spins a laige web with a curled-over leaf in the centre. Very beautiful is the web. I rememner seeing one, in a ...

    Article : 184 words
  18. IN BED.

    I see such awful, funny shapes, Around the room at night; And if I wasn't very brave, I'd get a dreadful fright. ...

    Article : 77 words
  19. A NEW BOOK.

    Book shops are always attractive but I find their fascination even greater when I actually enter one with the intention of buying. The fact that I know the title of the volume ...

    Article : 302 words
  20. STRANGE HIDING PLACES.

    In the early days of Van D[?]men's Land, when visits from bushrangers were greatly dreaded, many places were used for hiding money and other valuable. My grandfather ...

    Article : 229 words
  21. AN OLD ENGLISH WASHING TALLY.

    This example of a once popular device is believed to date from the time of Charles I. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  22. WHITE WATER LILIES.

    A nymph thou art, fair queen of the still waters. Loved by the gods, a flower of mystery, Enshrined in temple, held in holy rev'rence— ...

    Article : 136 words
  23. THE WANDERER.

    My house is all the world, My lamps are stars; My bed no curtain has, My door no bars. ...

    Article : 78 words
  24. MOTHS IN THE DUSK.

    White moths are a-wing in the wind, Blund'ring about in the twilight On silent, and sleep-laden wings— Colourless, somnolent things, ...

    Article : 80 words
  25. MELODY.

    I saw you standing in the dimness of a dream, I heard your whispered word, And then life's song was born to live again In the sweetest song I've heard. ...

    Article : 86 words
  26. QUATRAIN.

    The lovely woman, who wrote songs, and wrought On silk blossoms and reeds that seemed to wave. ...

    Article : 37 words
  27. A BOND.

    Ever, when loving motherhood I see. One godly realisation comes to me. No force can wrench our earth form heav'n apart, ...

    Article : 32 words
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