This Giddy Globe

I THE CREATION 15 PREFACE 19 II A LONG JUMP 20 III THE GIDDY GLOBE 23 IV THE USE OF THE GLOBE 25 V THE EQUATOR 28 VI THE EARTH'S CRUST 30 VII THE TEMPERATURE OF THE GLOBE 32 VII...

XVIII THE POLES 65 XIX AMERICA 70 XX BOSTON 75 XXI THE UNITED STATES 78 XXII CANADA 83 XXIII GREAT BRITAIN 86 XXIV SCOTLAND 90 XXV IRELAND 92 XXVI WALES 96

XXVII SOUTH AMERICA 101 XXVIII HOLLAND 103 XXIX BELGIUM 106 XXX FRANCE 109 XXXI GERMANY 111 XXXII SWITZERLAND 112 XXXIII MONACO 113 XXXIV TURKEY 114 XXXV RUSSIA 117 XXXVI NORWAY...

_Six busy days it took in all_ _To make a World and plan its fall,_ _The seventh, SOMEONE said 'twas good_ _And rested, should you think he could?_ _Knowing what the result woul...

When the acrobatic reader has fetched his breath and looks back at the fearsome list of Geographers he has skipped--Strabo, Anaximander, Hecatoeus, Demoeritus, Eudoxus, Ephorus,...

_Roll on, thou ball, roll on!_ _Through pathless realms of Space_ _Roll on!_ _What though I'm in a sorry case?_ _What though I cannot meet my bills?_ _What though I suffer tooth...

What is the Earth for? Nobody knows. Some say the Earth was made to supply the wants of Man, but as Man is part and parcel of the Earth herself, dust of her dust, mould of her m...

To wear an actual belt round a waist of such dimensions would be impossible even if it could be of any use. Instead, therefore, the Earth wears round her middle an imaginary lin...

When in the course of time the Upper Crust becomes too rich and heavy for the popular taste, the Social Pie flops over and the Under Crust becomes the Upper Crust.

The Term Zone is derived from the Greek word [Greek: zone] a Belt or Girdle, and a Girdle in the days of the First Geography Book was the principal (if not the only) garment of...

Astronomers may say what they like, a Planet is as old as it looks, especially if it is a Lady-Planet, and we have seen ours when she didn't look a June day over sixteen! and, n...

For aeons (quite a number of aeons) this Giddy one has been going round under various male and female aliases such as--Cosmos, Mother Earth, The World, Mrs. Grundy, the Footstoo...

Or, to make it clearer to the reader, Climate is a Hypothesis and Weather is a _Reductio ad Absurdum_. This explains why it invariably snows for the first time in years whenever...

In former times mountains were used as protective barriers. Today they serve as monuments to Public Men for whom they are named (_See Presidential Range_), and country seats for...

Commander Noah, after cruising about for twelve months and ten days, landed from his zooelogical water-wagon upon a precipitous Asiatic Jag called Ararat on the twenty-seventh o...

In the cellar there is a munition factory where, in defiance of regulations, there are stored High Explosives. These blow up from time to time, causing great damage and loss of...

The first tenants (as before stated) were a young couple who had been compelled to leave a more luxurious apartment because children were not allowed, though animals of all kind...

A week at the seashore in August ought to convince anyone of the efficiency of the Solar Tint Factory. In the tan of the surf bather is locked up the secret of Race Colouration.

In every community on Earth, the strongest, the craftiest or the wealthiest of the male inhabitants conspire to compel their weaker, stupider or poorer brothers and sisters to p...

This is clearly set forth in the accompanying Moral Map of the World in which the familiar idiosyncrasies of Mankind which we are wont to differentiate as Virtues or Vices are s...

The language that Lieutenant Peary used when he found the footprint of Doctor Cook on the Pole, whatever else it might be, was English, and the language of the next discoverer,...

But when you look at this map of the Western Hemisphere as it appeared about a thousand years ago, when Lief Ericsen discovered New England, you will understand that discovering...

In spite of many laudable attempts, America was never seriously discovered until the year 1620 when the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts a cargo of Heirlooms, Boston Terriers,...

So too the Cows, so too the Fish, if there is room for them; if not they are turned into fertilizer to keep them from scaling down the market price.

For over a hundred years there has not been so much as a picket-fence or a policeman, much less a patrol or a fortification, on the border line between the two countries.

The Planet Jupiter is twelve times as large as this Giddy Globe of ours, and has eight private moons of its own, but for all that Jupiter is not a desirable spot for Lovers, bei...

The Dew distilled from the Scotch mountains, flavoured with the peat of the valleys is highly prized by the natives, not only of Scotland but of all the English speaking countri...

The country is infested with Absentee Snakes. It is believed that the Serpent who tempted Eve (from the "way he had with the women") was one of these Absentee snakes.

_See the Welsh Rabbit--he is bred on cheese;_ _(Or cheese on bread, whichever way you please)._ _Although he's tough, he looks so mild, who'd think_ _That a strong man from this...

The first indication that everything was not as it should be with this long united couple, was in the year 1880, when a Frenchman named De Lesseps (who had already succeeded in...

In Holland they run cleanliness into the ground, the heads of the cabbages are inspected every day and the ears of the corn and the necks of the bottles scrubbed regularly every...

Crowns are not as fashionable today as they were in 1914, but the Crown of King Albert is of the sort that will never be out of style, and besides being a perfect fit, is striki...

While Repairs are being made, in the temporary absence of Messrs. Hohenzollern & Co., the Show Window of this establishment may be rented for the display of Bolshevism, Anarchis...

"What more worthy people! Whose every Alpine gap yawns with tradition, and is stocked with noble story, yet, the perverse and scornful one (Art) will none of it, and the sons of...

When what was once a Turkey comes before us on a platter (like this) shorn of all that endeared it to itself, a burnt offering to Appetite, fresh from the burning, no one questi...

It is all very sad about Norway and Sweden! A handsomer country couple--or couple of countries--it would be hard to meet anywhere, and so propinquous! Have they not been next-do...

Africa is the richest "jack-pot" in the game of territorial "freeze-out" played by the European Powers. The stakes represent diamonds, gold, ivory, rubber and slaves, though the...

"The Camel may be likened to A desert ship. (This is not new.) He is a most ungainly craft, With frowning turrets fore and aft We little realize on earth, How much we owe to his...

Anyone desiring a change from the wearisome rotation of our seasons, should go to Australia, where Spring commences on September the twenty-third, Summer on December the twenty-...

The only Flower that succeeds in climbing the high wall is the little flower of Pekoe and her sisters who leave their Porcelain Paradise to cheer without inebriating the dull pe...

Writing a little Geography Book is like packing a very small bag for a journey round the world, only instead of cramming it with shirts and shoes and collars and handkerchiefs a...