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  2. Silk Culture

    Since the war there has been a great increase in the popularity of silk, and though at the present time more artificial silk than real silk is produced, yet ...

    Article : 382 words
  3. Overtime Every Day

    It would scarcely be possible for human beings to work so hard as wild creatures (writes Oliver G. Pike). The busiest time in the life of a bird is when ...

    Article : 506 words
  4. Quick Suppers for Guests

    When a company returns home cold and hungry, and the hostess is one of the party, she must have ah idea of making a quick meal so that within ...

    Article : 708 words
  5. [Short Story.]

    Of course you know that Dora Blackburn is considered the cleverest and highest paid woman on the detective force in the city, or in New England, ...

    Article : 1,096 words
  6. Life Begins at Forty

    There is too much of this fetish about being too old at forty (writes an editor in a friendly talk to his readers). That was an evil myth ...

    Article : 341 words
  7. Autograph Collecting

    I was talking recently about autograph hunting with a fellow collector (says Fred Bason). I have had some strange experiences collecting my 4400 ...

    Article : 429 words
  8. [Short Story]

    Nancy tossed the just finished rug onto the porch floor with a flippant gesture calculated to impress Delia with its superiority of design and ...

    Article : 934 words
  9. WONDERS OF COLD STORAGE

    If Jacob Perkins, who fully a hundred years ago invented the first practicable refrigerating machine, could now see the extent to which his idea ...

    Article : 222 words
  10. ZINC FOR DIABETES.

    By Introducing zinc into insulin, medical scientists in Montreal say they have discovered a still more effective method of treating diabetes. ...

    Article : 215 words
  11. REMOVING SPLINTERS.

    Trivial injuries often lead to serious consequences unless great care is taken in their treatment. Splinters may be said to belong to this category ...

    Article : 239 words
  12. DUSTBIN INCOMES.

    What you throw indifferently into dustbins is very often an enterprising corporation's gain, Sheffield, during its last financial year, earned no less ...

    Article : 202 words
  13. HEALTH-GIVING GAMES.

    Many slight physical defects in a child can be cured before he is fire years old. I refer to bad standing, round shoulders, hollow backs, ...

    Article : 136 words
  14. DO YOUR EYES DECEIVE YOU?

    It is an important question, for if they do it may be a warning that their delicate mechanism has been disordered by neglect or bad treatment. ...

    Article : 319 words
  15. HAVE YOU TRIED TEA THIS WAY?

    Every woman knows the recuperative powers of a cup of tea. After a worrying way at the office, or a good week's washing, and particularly in ...

    Article : 170 words
  16. THIS MAN SOLD HIS WIFE AND BOUGHT—STRIFE.

    The Swedish courts have been having a worrying time trying to decide what to do about a farm laborer near Arvika, who has caused quite an ...

    Article : 142 words
  17. FOURTEEN.

    Would I were very wise and knew Just what a growing child should do, What joys to grant and what deny. What to bestow and what withhold. ...

    Article : 163 words
  18. Hard.

    Harry had done no work for over a year and his father was getting tired of keeping him. "Harry," said his father one day, "I ...

    Article : 192 words
  19. A Jealous Sow.

    An Englishwoman on holiday in Scotland got her milk from a kindly crofter. One day the family sow was near ...

    Article : 106 words
  20. Sport!

    The business man retired and went to live in the country. In due course a neighbor called on his wife. She said: "I hear your husband has taken ...

    Article : 65 words
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