Country Life
Indoor Spring A little taste of spring, more real than the Roman hyacinth or forced bulb, may be had by putting sprays of hazel or other nut in water. Though the catkins are......
Vain Foresight Most Of Us Have Had Evidence Of The
migration of mice to our houses or sheds. Here is a quaint example of their in- genious ways of fending for the winter. A gardener, rendered idle by the weather, left his garden......
A French Lily A 'scarcely Credible Example Of...
me from a soldier in France. The appearance of a strange lily found growing near the coast was reported to me last Septem- ber, but the description did not justify a guess as to......
A Summer Record It Is Difficult, As Shakespeare Observed, To
think of fantastic summer events while still wallowing in winter snows, but a record of butterfly immigrations last year makes the feat possible. We usually think of migration......
Farewell, England*
By J. VIJAYA-TUNGA At Sea, Eastward-Bound. O F the European impact upon Asia that of England is far the greatest. English social conventions, English standards in literature, in......
Why Not Weather ?
The weather, as we all know, is a hush-hush subject, till it is old history, but that is no good reason for changing the word. Weather has become an adjective instead of a......
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