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  2. SHORT STORY.

    'Please, sir,' said my landlady, Mrs. Morley, 'the new C[?]rate sent this, and wants to know when it would bo convenient for you to receive him? ...

    Article : 4,177 words
  3. Housekeeper,

    When stewing fruit add a pinch of salt to every pound, and you will find the flavour much improved. Choose lamp wicks that are soft and ...

    Article : 379 words
  4. All Round

    A French aeroplane manufacturer recently offered five, of his monoplanes for sale on the instalment or "easy pavment" plan to licensed aviators, the ...

    Article : 48 words
  5. ROUND THE WORLD.

    Karl Hildebrand, who is trying to walk round the world, has just reached Jerusalem after seven years and a half of globe trotting. He has been sent ...

    Article : 185 words
  6. Scientific Notes.

    When on a walking tour through the woods or country it is well to provide a way to procure water for drinking purposes. Take with you several feet ...

    Article : 84 words
  7. Odds and Ends.

    "I remember your wife as such a dainty and pretty girl, Tumly, and yet they tell me she turned out a fine cook." ...

    Article : 177 words
  8. FEVER IN PLANTS.

    Not only animals, but plants, may suffer and die of fevers, is the conclusion reached by the French savant, Du Sablon. When a human being has a ...

    Article : 151 words
  9. DUTCH ASTRONOMER COUNTS

    A tremendous task, that of counting the stars up to the 19th magnitude, has been undertaken by the Dutch astronomer, Prof. Kapytcn, who has ...

    Article : 153 words
  10. BEAUTY MASKS.

    Among the beauty-cures adopted for the benefit of the complexion are face-masks of prepared wadding and similar materials, and of india-rubber ...

    Article : 149 words
  11. MODERN WARFARE.

    "On vonder hill," cried the general, scanning the battlefield with his glasses, "I see a black mass of men. What are they?" ...

    Article : 98 words
  12. A NEW CAVE WONDER.

    "Cathedral Cave" is the name that has been given to a vast cavity in the earth near Prescot, Arizona, in which are found some of the most ...

    Article : 180 words
  13. SUBSTITUTE FOR MEAT.

    The availability of yeast as a food is a problem upon which the Berlin Institute for Fermentation Industries is now working. More than 70,000 tons ...

    Article : 187 words
  14. GIRL COMPANIONS.

    Girls who share rooms together should learn the art of consideration one for the other, and thus save ruffled tempers and friction, which are ...

    Article : 315 words
  15. SQUARING THE ACCOUNT.

    The guard had told the passenger very frankly that he was not A walking encyclopaedia, neither was he a general information bureau. ...

    Article : 130 words
  16. ANCIENT PHOTOGRAPHY.

    The first sunlight photograph of a human face was obtained in 1839 by Professor John William Draper, of New York University, by the ...

    Article : 169 words
  17. CHOKINC AN OYSTER TO DEATH

    The most destructive enemy of the oyster, particularly in North Atlantic estuaries and river mouths, is the starfish. Often these five-fingered ...

    Article : 210 words
  18. A FOOTBALL STORY.

    A good story is fold of a youth who, on his way to a football match, met a friend and inquired if he was also going". The friend replied that he had ...

    Article : 89 words
  19. HOW HE FELT.

    An Alpine climber, who had a backward fall off the crown of the Korpstock Alp in Switzerland, thus describes his sensations during his headlong flight: I have heard ...

    Article : 194 words
  20. RECIPES.

    Iced Fruit Fool.—Make any fruit fool, such as gooseberry fool, and freeze it to a thick batter in a freezer (the American ice freezer is excellent). ...

    Article : 437 words
  21. THE EYE OF THE CAT.

    The pupil of a cat's eye oidinarily appears as a long, narrow, oval, or a straight. vertical black line. The animal seems to be looking through more ...

    Article : 289 words
  22. IN REPLY.

    It was a very discouraging answer that was made to the doting parents of a country boy, who had gone to a neighbouring town to be apprenticed ...

    Article : 112 words
  23. A WOMAN WHO LIVES IN A COFFIN.

    We have heard of people who live in caves and others who spend their honeymoon in balloons, but surely the weirdest place on earth that one could ...

    Article : 411 words
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