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  2. QUAINT WAYS OF FILIPINOS.

    ALTHOUGH there are many Chinese and some Japanese in the Philippines, as well as a dwindling number of Spanish families which have remained ...

    Article : 1,337 words
  3. ENDLESS CHAIN OF PARASITES.

    "Parasite:" the word immediately calls up a picture of something disgusting and degenerate. Because, to-day, man employs many parasites in his ...

    Article : 1,192 words
  4. JOHN FAIRFAX.

    IT will be a hundred years on Monday since the arrival in Sydney of John Fairfax, the founder of "Sydney Morning Herald." under the title it has borne so long. While there are, of course, other names finely associated with the early of the Australian Press ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,283 words
  5. KING OF PEARL ISLAND.

    One of the happiest memories of a recent short residence in Japan is that of my meeting with Kokichi Mikimoto, the Pearl King. ...

    Article : 898 words
  6. MODERN TARGETS FOR DON QUIXOTE.

    Windpower is still cheapest, in the view of the owner of fields at Marion, just outside of Adelaide. Beyond, the almond trees are in blossom, and in the background is the Mount Lofty Range, which overlooks the South Australian capital. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 45 words
  7. OLD SYDNEY.

    There are still a few old buildings in or near Sydney which bear the date of erection. In Harris Street, Pyrmont, near the terminus, is a sandstone building with the date 1848, in ...

    Article : 384 words
  8. IN DARWIN NOW.

    All round Darwin grasses that waved in "The Wet" and ripened with lovely floral tops as the rains petered out are now brown and crumpled in tangled ...

    Article : 472 words
  9. For the Children.

    In the Land of Ingle Dingle, The people talk in jingle, It's strange at first, but very soon you know When they say, "How are you keeping, ...

    Article : 174 words
  10. A STATELY HOME OF ENGLAND.

    Compton Wyngates, which is illustrated on the opposite page, is little known compared with many of the old homes of England, yet it is one of the ...

    Article : 276 words
  11. SONNET.

    This is my would: a city where the sun Its bounty pours. By Nature blest, she boasts Not age, but life: for free her pulses run. Changing as tides which lash her harboured ...

    Article : 116 words
  12. REQUIEM.

    Turn the rod, and heap the [?]d. And sweep the wild grass over; And let me [?] beneath the the sky, A vagrant and a rover. ...

    Article : 53 words
  13. WITH A CHILD'S SMALL FEET.

    So many times I think of you, Yet, ever as I think. I see the running feet of a child At the world's high brink. ...

    Article : 56 words
  14. A MINIATURE OF LONG AGO.

    This Picture, is reproduced from a miniature of Mr and Mrs. John Fairfax painted shortly after their marriage in Warwick. England, in 1827, when John Fairfax was 23 years of age. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 35 words
  15. GAY FILIPINAS GO TO MARKET.

    A scene in Baguio, Philippines. The lady on the right puffs at a huge cigar. (See article adjoining.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 23 words
  16. THE BEAUTY OF BERRIES.

    The waratah, the Christmas bell, Christmas bush, flannel flowers, and wattles have world-wide fame, but our lovely berries receive less admiration ...

    Article : 292 words
  17. WHERE HAWKESBURY FLOWS.

    The winds from the girding hills rustle Through valleys of bracken and fern. Past orchards that lean to the marges Of creeks, where the yellow reeds burn; ...

    Article : 232 words
  18. THE DANDENONCS.

    Fair are the Dandenongs, low to the castward lying. Where the early cuckoos are crying Now, and the bellbird s fairy songs ...

    Article : 137 words
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