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  2. STRANGE BURIAL CUSTOMS OF THE ABORIGINES.

    BELIEF in the survival of the soul after death is common to all people. From the time when, the hairy cave man of Kurope buried food with his ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,246 words
  3. THE DAY'S WORK ALONG AUSTRALIAN SKY TRAILS.

    Across the length and breadth of Australia, passenger planes are weaving an invisible web. From the tropic north to the wind-swept south, over ...

    Article : 1,133 words
  4. TREES THAT WRITE AUSTRALIA'S SIGNATURE.

    "Monarchs of the Soil," by John Rowell, who is quoted in an article in the next column as having written that "cucalypts... write Australia's signature indelibly upon the art of her landscape painiters." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 41 words
  5. LOST EXPLORERS.

    The discovery in the dead heart of Australia of skeletons of white men, which may be those of the members of the lost Leichhardt expedition, ...

    Article : 517 words
  6. THE ART GALLERY—ON A RAINY DAY.

    If you wish to study the paintings in the Art Gallery, you should really go on a fine day, but if you wish to see the world and his wife (to say nothing of ...

    Article : 357 words
  7. TH COOLIBAH.

    Australia possesses many little known trees, some of which have strange and interesting characteristics. Among there is the coolibah (eucalyptus ...

    Article : 407 words
  8. RAIN.

    "Rain!" they said, as they met, "How nice to hear the rain!" Then they smiled from their furs, and went on their way again. ...

    Article : 145 words
  9. MOVING A MOUNTAIN OF IRON.

    "The Iron Monarch" of South Australia, seen from the air, was like a crinkled prune." writes Mr. R. Emerson Curtis, who drew this picture of the mass of iron ore which is gradually being removed to feed Australia's steel mills. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 51 words
  10. For the Children

    For Jon and Jan I once began To write these little rhymes, In memory, so joyfully, Of all our happy times. ...

    Article : 148 words
  11. TOWN WHOSE OTHER NAME IS DEATH ADDER.

    "Waranbini," writing in the "S. M. Herald" of 6/8/'38, of a strip of country in south-west Queensland being known as "Death-Adder Corner," is perhaps ...

    Article : 228 words
  12. BENEDICTION.

    Your hands a benison bestow, Your empty hands that barely touch So swift they are to let me go— But, ah, the dark tides that they stem! ...

    Article : 42 words
  13. SEA SAWS.

    The language of the sea is often mystifying to the layman. The most baffling of all the maritime commands concerned the old helm orders which were ...

    Article : 531 words
  14. TRANSLATION.

    Beyond the trees smoke mingles with the mist As incense lifts the heart and slowly fills Those hallowed places, dim as amethyst, That drifts at dusk across the distant hills. ...

    Article : 34 words
  15. THE GUM TREE IN OUR ART.

    Predominant among the themes portrayed in the numerous paintings exhibited in Sydney within recent months, eucalypts are being accorded ...

    Article : 1,210 words
  16. THE PEAR—TREE.

    The [?]stling lambs are in the field where yellow daisies peer, The glancing swallows fly by crag and rushy pool again, ...

    Article : 179 words
  17. THE DRAMA IN. ENGLAND.

    IN England, the early days of August usher in the dramatic festivals. In conflict with the all-conquering films, play-producers and dramatists no ...

    Article : 1,265 words
  18. IN MEMORY OF FIDO.

    Hidden away in a comer of the 550 acres that comprise Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens is a quiet enclosure about 25 feet square, which is a ...

    Article : 320 words
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