Ghost Stories There was a time when even well-educated and levelheaded persons swallowed every tale of the supernatural they came across as gospel truth. And there was a later …
God helps those who help themselves Every child knows the old fable of the carter whose wagon struck in the mud, and who prayed to Hercules, the god of …
No man is a Hero to his own Valet A valet is the personal servant of a gentleman. He is what in India is called a “bearer”. He keeps …
Sports and Sportsmanship Games which are played outside in the open air are generally known as ‘sports’. These are of various kinds. In the villages such games as Kabaddi, …
Utopia “Utopia” is the name of a famous book, published in 1516, by St. Thomas More. More was Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII, and was a learned, able, …
Keep the Windows Open Everyone knows that air is essential to life. If we are stopped from breathing for five minutes, we die. But every-one does not seem to …
Recreation Leisure is time at one’s own disposal; time which we can spend as we like. At one extreme are the so-called “leisured classes”, the whole of whose time …
There are two sides to every question There is a story told in verse about that curious kind of lizard called the chameleon. Two friends talking about it almost …
Novel Reading There were, and not so very long ago, some old fashioned and narrowly religious people who actually condemned novel reading as wrong. They argued that novels were …
Repentance “Repentance” is a bigger word than either “regret” or “remorse”. Regret is a mild, and remorse a deep and “biting” sense of sorrow for sin or folly; but …
