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  2. POPULAR SCIENCE.

    Scarecrows of all sizes and shapes are continually being devised by farmers and gardeners for the protection of their crops. But, according to an Austrian ...

    Article : 122 words
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  4. The Ghost of the Grange.

    "IT'S absurd, papa," exclaimed pretty Dora Quinelian, as she drummed her little foot pettishly upon the polished floor of the ...

    Article : 3,647 words
  5. LADIES' COLUMN.

    It is certain that if clothes are properly cared for the will last long, and, in a certain sense, will look well to the last. Americans both men and ...

    Article : 164 words
  6. WHAT A MAN CAN LIFT.

    Man's lifting power varies, of course, at different ages. The average youth of seventeen can lift 280 pounds. By his twentieth year his power has increased ...

    Article : 167 words
  7. SEE TO YOUR LAMPS.

    To obtain a good, clear light from a lamp it must be carefully trimmed and refilled every day. Once a week the oil reservoir should be emptied, washed out ...

    Article : 220 words
  8. SAFE ON THE PERC[?]

    A thing that has caused many people to wonder is the fast that a chicken never falls off its perch. The reason is that whenever the fowl's leg is [?] the toes ...

    Article : 101 words
  9. WHAT IS HOME?

    Home is the human nest, and the woman who fails as a homemaker fails as a woman. Home is the social unit. A nation is built up of its homes, and ...

    Article : 262 words
  10. ROBIN IN A COAL MINE.

    The miners of a certain coalpit in Derbyshire possess a pet robin which lives in the bowels of the earth. The owner of the pit saw the bird there one day ...

    Article : 264 words
  11. NERVOUS CHILDREN.

    Mothers are sometimes apt to be impatient with nervous children. This is a great pity, as such children stand in special need of sympathy and ...

    Article : 112 words
  12. NEW USE FOR BIRDS.

    The most unique method yet devised for ridding greenhouses of insect pests is that of using humming birds at insect destroyers. This idea is being experimented ...

    Article : 107 words
  13. A WONDERFUL MIRAGE.

    There is a mirage to be seen on the Mediterranean Sea which has been looked upon with awe for centuries by the simple Sicilian peasants. It may take the form of ...

    Article : 124 words
  14. WOMEN'S CHARACTER.

    Someone has been telling the character of women by their hands. It is said that women can be divided into two classes—these with large thumbs and ...

    Article : 103 words
  15. TO SUPPLANT THE HAZEL.

    Tim hazel twig no a water fin[?] been supplanted by a remarkable consisting of a simple appara[?] principle on which the instrum[?] ...

    Article : 134 words
  16. LOOK YOUR BEST.

    How many women realise that it is a sound business policy in every walk of life to appear prosperous! The professional man whose wife and daughter ...

    Article : 89 words
  17. THE LAND OF QUICK DEATH.

    Such is the manner in which, in a recent number of "Public Health Journal," reference is made to our Dependency in India. It is pointed out the ...

    Article : 508 words
  18. THE WOMAN'S CARE.

    "If girls and women could be taught how to take care of infants we might hope to diminish not only the high rate of infant mortality, but also the large amount ...

    Article : 217 words
  19. PRUNES FROM ALMONDS.

    Some interesting experiments in plan raising were described by Professor Po[?]tomley at a meeting of the Wome[?] Agricultural and Horticultural Inter[?] ...

    Article : 175 words
  20. WHEN AN ENGINE PUFFS.

    The number of puffs which a locomotive gives in a given distance is governed entirely by the size of its driving wheels. For every turn of the wheels it gives ...

    Article : 200 words
  21. BEAUTIFUL HANDS.

    A perfect hand, according to the long-established rule based upon the Greek sculptured ideal figures, should measure seven inches from the wrist to the end of ...

    Article : 151 words
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