War And Weeds Several Inventions And Discoveries That We...
wholly with the technique of war are being turned to peaceful purposes The flame- thrower, which is being used more and more in the war, has no been adopted for cleaning up the......
Country Life
Jr is said: "De Mutants non cutest lex "; but in war-time the law insists on some very minute details indeed. One of these concerning farmers is that each stack that is being......
Where Is The American Fleet ?
SIR,—Why is it that we hear practically nothing of the American Fleet? There seems to be a regular conspiracy of silence on the subject. The United States Navy is supposed to be......
In The Garden The Hours Of Supreme Activity In The
garden approach, in date not in season. By a beneficent arrangement with Messrs. Suttons, Women's Institutes are distributing boxes of the more useful vegeta seeds (at 3s. 3d.),......
Entertaining The Army
SIR,—I have been in the army for more than seventeen months, and I feel more and more disturbed by the failures of the authorities, including the B.B.0 and E N.S.A., to provide......
Rural Speech At These Threshings And In Conversation With...
folk, I happen to have come across an unusual number of purely rural words. What would a townsman make of the following list, if asked in an examini- don to explain them:......
Rebuilding London
Sit,—I ventured, some years ago, to propose a plan for rebuilding the City of London, which brought me little but abuse from owners and tenants of property within that area ;......
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