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  2. RICHES FROM RUBBER.

    FOR centuries the Dutch have concentrated their colonising efforts in the Indies almost exclusively on the development of Java. To-day Java is[?] ...

    Article : 1,422 words
  3. AUSTRALIANA.

    This is the second of two articles, found among the papers of Henry Ithel Morgan a casualty of the Great War, who died in Sydney recently. The first, on the art o[?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,165 words
  4. CHIANG KAI-SHEK.

    Sloe-eyed, shaven-headed Chiang Ka[?]-shek [?]s the strong man of China in the crisis with Japan. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 17 words
  5. WINTER'S CURTAIN ON THE RIVER.

    Punt crossing the Hawkesbury River at Sackville Reach. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 14 words
  6. CHINA'S MAN OF THE HOUR.

    Chiang Kai-shek is a gaunt, almost emaciated, man of fifty-one years of age. In appearance, especially when [?]lad in his favourite long Chinese robes, ...

    Article : 1,144 words
  7. THE WINGED DEATH.

    Can London and other great cities be protected against destruction from the a[?] Will respirators save their populations from death spread by gas bombs? These questions ...

    Article : 1,346 words
  8. LOVELY DANCERS OF ROSARIO.

    As a rule the obiter dicta of the great and the near-great seem to me tediously trivial. But one of the observations of Herr Hitler, recorded in ...

    Article : 1,034 words
  9. THE GREATNESS OF MARCONI.

    Guglielmo Marconi was one of the small band of pioneers who lived to see their discoveries become of great practical value. ...

    Article : 885 words
  10. For the Children.

    I like to climb the railway fence And watch the train go by, But sometimes I climb down quite quick With c[?]nders in my eye. ...

    Article : 79 words
  11. HERALDS OF SPRING.

    If native flowers alone were any guide in this country, as they are in other lands, one might believe that spring was always with us, and no less in ...

    Article : 755 words
  12. APPLE-ON-A-STICK.

    Lick a lick, lick a lick, John likes apple-on-a-stick. Toffee red, with apple sweet, He can eat and eat and eat. ...

    Article : 69 words
  13. THE LEAF.

    The silver wind had once more danced in m[?]y garden and scattered the rose leaves. I held a few in my hand, then idly tossed them away. They arose like butterflies for one ...

    Article : 208 words
  14. HUNTERS OF THE SKY.

    The Australian wedge-tail eagles, the largest eagles in the world, are carrion feeders chiefly, but they are nevertheless partial to live rabbits and lambs, ...

    Article : 274 words
  15. CREMATION CEREMONIES AMONG THE BALINESE.

    A reader of Mr. Denzil Batchelor's travel articles has forwarded these unusual photographs of cremation ceremonies in Bali. The fruit in the picture at the left is an offering for the temple gods. "A superb tomb will be carved for me from wood," said the rich Balinese ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 77 words
  16. WINTER GOLD.

    It was an old Chinaman who brought his basket of golden navel oranges to the door. He recommended them as the finest oranges money could buy, and I had to believe him ...

    Article : 159 words
  17. SONGS OF TWILIGHT.

    These things belong to songs in twili ght made: Hushed trees a-dream[?] Drooping to lakes where ivory lilies gleam Before they fade ...

    Article : 109 words
  18. DEATH AND THE DAFFODILS.

    The earth is racked with thoughts of pending war, And crawling fear of cruel shattering things; Of poison gas upon the once sweet air, ...

    Article : 71 words
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