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  2. LADIES' COLUMN.

    The surface brightness of walls of ceilings lighted by daylight or artificial light is now determined directly by an improved portable ...

    Article : 132 words
  3. ONLY A SPOT.

    Before Prince Bismark reconstructed the map of Europe and made a united Germany, a dozen little principalities used to annoy travellers ...

    Article : 183 words
  4. THE FARM.

    The ordinary halter (Fig. 1) is a very common article, and useful when it fits the animal. But if you happen to have only a small one, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 283 words
  5. THE MAN ON THE BRIDGE.

    To be captain or officer on a great ocean liner holds, in the mere thought, more than a tinge of romance. But in reality— ...

    Article : 221 words
  6. NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    Mary Douglas, an Indian servant girl, at Westmount, a suburb of Montreal, has told the Canadian court that she was one of a hand of ...

    Article : 924 words
  7. THE SUBMARINE WAR AGAINST WAR.

    Brooks Adams, in his "Law of Civilisation and Decay," developed the interesting thesis that civilisation advances only in those ...

    Article : 514 words
  8. MELONS FLAVOURED TO SUIT.

    What flavour will you have your water-melon ? Customers are likely to be asked this question by the modern greengrocer in the near ...

    Article : 117 words
  9. TALK WHILE EATING.

    "When I was a little boy," said a physician not long ago, "my mother chided me for laughing and talking at the table with my ...

    Article : 575 words
  10. THE ZERO THAT HAS NO HEAT.

    Absolute zero, the point at which there is no heat whatever, has been fixed by scientists at 273 degrees below Centigrade, or about 530 ...

    Article : 652 words
  11. LIVER DUMPLINGS.

    To make liver dumplings as in Germany — Strictly speaking, these dumplings should be made of goose liver, a favourite article of diet. In ...

    Article : 132 words
  12. THE MODERN MERINO.

    The marked reaction on the part of sheep breeders all over the pastoral areas of the Commonwealth in favour of the large-framed merino, ...

    Article : 1,129 words
  13. TRAP FOP FLIES.

    The large-sized fly trap here shown is designed to catch flies outdoors, and is particularly for service in places near garbage cans, stables, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 107 words
  14. SAME OLD MIX-UP.

    It's a telephone story again. A few evenings ago a young man had occasion to call up his ladylove, and for once he got through to her ...

    Article : 176 words
  15. FOR BUSY HOUSEWIVES.

    To clean cottee-stained linen soak in cold water to which has been added a little borax. All coffee, chocolate, tea, and fruit stains will ...

    Article : 250 words
  16. SEED TESTING.

    A seed-testing device Which is often used and proves very satisfactory is to fill the box with moist sand in place of sawdust. Stretch ...

    Article : 120 words
  17. THE BETTER WAY.

    A lady who was sitting in the middle of the stalls at a matinee and was wearing a regular "floral avenue" of a hat, was politely asked ...

    Article : 150 words
  18. UP AGAINST THE JUDGE.

    He was a Scottish advocate, and in his pleading he had several times pronounced the word "enow" for "enough." ...

    Article : 152 words
  19. CONTRASTS.

    The farmer sows his crop, And the good wife sews his clothes; The farmer darns the weather, And the good wife darns his hose. ...

    Article : 51 words
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