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  2. MATTERS FEMININE. THE WOMAN WHO WEARS WELL.

    Many women please at first sight, and for a short time are thought simply charming, but seldom, if ever, do these brilliantly attractive ones wear well. ...

    Article : 314 words
  3. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Keep cakes fresh by placing an apple in the cake-tin. Corks may be made airtight and watertight by keeping them immersed ...

    Article : 680 words
  4. (ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.) THE MAID OF THE MILL.

    "Hi, there, what do you go dropping right under our bows for?" shouted Jim Spike, angrily, as, turning into the Manor drive at a ...

    Article : 2,631 words
  5. COOKERY.

    Savoury Rice pudding.—Take two tablespoonfuls of rice, wash and boil in milk till tender, then add seasoning of pepper and salt to taste, and small ...

    Article : 778 words
  6. FACTS AND FANCIES. Bedouin Surgery.

    A traveller in the Algerian Hinterland has discovered that tho Bedouins are good surgeons—"trepanning is very common, and is very successfully ...

    Article : 82 words
  7. HEALTH IN THE HOME. A RINGWORM OINTMENT.

    The following ointment will bo found useful in many cases of ringworm which prove troublesome: Chrysophnnic acid, one drachm; liquor earbonis ...

    Article : 136 words
  8. A Clock of Glass.

    Glass has disadvantages as a material for machinery, and for using it for the works of a clock a Bavarian glass polisher found it necessary to ...

    Article : 93 words
  9. INDIGESTION DUE TO FERMENTATION.

    One of tho commonest forms of dyspepsia is that in which many of tho symptoms are connected with tho fermentation of undigested food. Burning ...

    Article : 148 words
  10. A Sacred Clam Shell.

    The clever priests of China often insert tiny images of Buddha within the shells of a living clam, which are loft undisturbed for about a year. At the ...

    Article : 103 words
  11. Floating on the Dead Sea.

    The wonderful buoyancy of the Dead Sea, that strange inland sheet of water in Palestine, is proverbial. It is some forty-seven miles long by nine miles ...

    Article : 119 words
  12. THE COMMON COLD.

    The most dangerous of all, and perhaps that most commonly duo to pure neglect, is the common cold. This, if not attended to, may prove the ...

    Article : 215 words
  13. THE WISTERIA.

    A clean, fresh-looking blouse, is a compliment to any men folk who have come home tired from a hot city office or workshop. It is not always the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 209 words
  14. How Indians Make Flint Arrow-Heads.

    The old Indian art of making flint arrow-heads was not so difficult as is usually imagined—white men make "old and genuine" Indian arrow-heads now ...

    Article : 127 words
  15. Plants and Their Names.

    Fuchsias received their name from Leonard Fuchs, who discovered this species of house plants. Andro Dahl found the dahlia in Peru. The camelia ...

    Article : 203 words
  16. IN CASES OF POISONING.

    The treatment of poisoning is, of course, by 110 means simple, or such as can be adequately administered by unskilled persons. But cases ...

    Article : 395 words
  17. SIX VARIETIES OF LOVE.

    Six varieties of love have been defined by Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a leading American writer and lecturer on the feminist movement. ...

    Article : 127 words
  18. FIRST NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN ENCLISH LANGUAGE.

    The first newspaper printed in the English language, with its old-English type and its quaint account of events in foreign countries, was a pamphlet ...

    Article : 299 words
  19. The Microscope and Civilisation.

    The microscope has been the most important of all instruments in the work of civilising the wild quarters of the globe. It is the microscope that ...

    Article : 209 words
  20. PRACTICAL SCHEME FOR AN INVARIABLE CALENDAR.

    Among the many schemes for an invariable calendar the one just proposed by the International Association of Academies has the merit of being ...

    Article : 251 words
  21. MONEY MATTERS AND MARRIAGE.

    A little common sense in discussing money matters before marriage would save a world of discomfort. A girl should know on what sum she is ...

    Article : 133 words
  22. NEXT PLEASE!

    "Who's the old chap over there?" asked Jones, as he idly lounged on the hotel verandah. "Him? He's the greatest inventive ...

    Article : 137 words
  23. UNEXPECTED PRESCRIPTION.

    Mr. Norton was a very patient man and a long-suffering one. Mrs. Norton provided a continuous flow of conversation and was known as a nag. Finally, ...

    Article : 130 words
  24. THE ONLY HOPE.

    There could be no dispute in the matter. The jockey was just over weight—only the merest fraction, but enough to disqualify him. ...

    Article : 119 words
  25. AT A PRICE.

    Hobby had been naughty. At any rate, he had incurred his grannie's wrath—which comes to much the same thing—and had then taken to his heels, ...

    Article : 106 words
  26. KIPPERED SOUL.

    A certain divine, whoso knowledge of Scottish idioms and expressions was rather weak, had been spending part of his holidays in the land of cakes. ...

    Article : 88 words
  27. RETORT COURTEOUS.

    Ah ill-bred English squire, wishing to annoy the Rev. Sydney Smith, said to him: "If I had a son who was an idiot, ...

    Article : 46 words
  28. THE BRUTE.

    "You're kinder to dumb animals than you are to me, your wife." "Well, you try being dumb and see how kind I'll be." ...

    Article : 25 words
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