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  2. Health in the Home.

    A common carelessness, and one which invites malaria, is to allow flowers to stand in vases until the stems and foliage emit an ...

    Article : 59 words
  3. Matters Feminine.

    A young man is always asked by the father of the girl he wants to marry: "What are your prospects? What are your business ...

    Article : 382 words
  4. Household Hints.

    To remove iron rust, use a mixture of equal portions of benzine and borax. Castor oil becomes tasteless if ...

    Article : 866 words
  5. My Wife Or His.

    Her husband was standing beside her now with an angry face, but she did not shrink from him as she would have done a few hours ...

    Article : 3,012 words
  6. VOICE TRAINING.

    For my own part, I think I have always appreciated the extreme delicacy of the muscles of the larynx, and perhaps largely on that account ...

    Article : 493 words
  7. THE HYGIENE OF LAUGHTER.

    It has been aptly said that there is not the remotest corner of the inlet of the minute bloodvessels of the human body that docs not feel ...

    Article : 145 words
  8. THE VALUE OF FRUIT.

    The fruits which possess the greatest food value are, in the order of their merit, raisins, dates, figs, bananas. Indeed, the two former ...

    Article : 257 words
  9. SIX-PIECE PIE-CUTTER.

    A pie-cutter device, which cuts a whole pie into six pieces at one operation, has been designed for the use of hotels and restaurants. It ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 53 words
  10. WEAK HEARTS.

    Genuine weak hearts, says a medical man, as not as common as we might suppose—many a smoker has an instability of that organ due ...

    Article : 179 words
  11. WEDDED FOR ONE YEAR ONLY.

    The ancient custom for holding fairs for selecting brides and bride grooms on trial still exists in some villages of the Eifel district of ...

    Article : 343 words
  12. Anecdotes from Ireland.

    Maria appeared on the railway platform carrying "a regular donkey's load iv luggage ov wan koind or anothir." Porter: "Yez can't be takin' ...

    Article : 101 words
  13. BLEEDING AND HOW TO STOP IT.

    Many a mother has had a terrible fright by a child running in with its clothes, hands, and face all smeared with blood. It is astonishing what ...

    Article : 196 words
  14. RELIEVING THE STRAIN.

    The teacher had instructed Josey that he would require to bring a pair of dumbbells to school: When asking his father to procure ...

    Article : 93 words
  15. DEVELOPMENT OF AERIAL SCIENCE.

    There has been a vast increase in the speed of the aeroplane, and the monoplane has been found to have the advantage over the ...

    Article : 275 words
  16. ALWAYS TOOK THE SWEETS.

    Brian held strongly to the idea "that sweeties wore mortal bad fur the childer, furbye destroyin' teeth id lift thim wid nixt till nothin iv a stomik." ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. THE ROYAL CROWNS.

    Queen Mary's crown is composed of diamonds set in platinum. In the centre is the famous Koh-i-Noor jewel. The Imperial state crown ...

    Article : 54 words
  18. JAPANESE FOLK-LORE.

    Japan is an inexhaustible field for the student of folk-lore. There are countless household superstitions and proverbs, some of which are ...

    Article : 199 words
  19. Cookery.

    Vegetable Marrow—Preserved.—Peel the marrows, and after scraping out the seeds and fibres, cut them in pieces. To each pound of fruit ...

    Article : 975 words
  20. RESUSCITATING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.

    The following is recommended by Dr. Brodnax as an excellent method in resuscitating the apparently drowned: Open the mouth and take ...

    Article : 104 words
  21. PLENTY TO EAT.

    Pat, while waiting his turn at the blacksmith's shop, went into a neighbour's, Jack Shevin, for a chat and "whiff ov the poipe." During the ...

    Article : 100 words
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