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  2. The Home.

    Don't comb the fringe of your napkins and towels, unless you want to part with them much sooner than is necessary. Shake them out while the articles are ...

    Article : 288 words
  3. Elephant Tusks.

    A photograph of the largest pair of tusks taken from an African elephant was exhibited recently at the Zoological Society. For some time the ...

    Article : 633 words
  4. Household Hints.

    When dust has discoloured black laces and cannot be shaken from them, mix borax and alcohol in lukewarm water, a teaspoonful and a tablespoonful respectively to each ...

    Article : 125 words
  5. Sheridan and His Wife.

    Born in Dublin in 1751, "where his father was an actor and manager of a theatre, Richard Brinsley Sheridan was brought over to England at the ago of 9. He was only ...

    Article : 1,286 words
  6. Comic Cutt[?]

    Tramps are glad to belong to the crmy—of the unemployed. "I hear they are using auto[?] as hearses now!" "Yes, people are just ...

    Article : 809 words
  7. Short Story.

    As I dropped into my stall at the Gaiety one evening, after a three years absence from England, a cordial voice hailed me, aud I found myself shaking ...

    Article : 1,876 words
  8. Cooking Odours.

    To prevent kitchen odours it is well to put a crust of bread, tied in a piece of clean muslin, into a bolling pot. A few pieces of charcoal dropped into the water in which ...

    Article : 61 words
  9. To Make Paste

    The usual way is to mix flour and water together, and let them boll till thick; but a very good paste can be made from potatoes. These should be thinly peeled, and ...

    Article : 69 words
  10. Hints to Mother.

    Dainties at Nursery Meals.—In giving fruit and jams to young children, the skins, stones, pips, and little seeds must be avoided. Thus raspberry jam is unfit for ...

    Article : 488 words
  11. Drawn-work Threads.

    If threads draw hard and break easily, a little white soap rubbed on the wrong side of the linen is on advantage. A lather applied with a brush is often a convenience ...

    Article : 41 words
  12. Nicknames of Prominen' Personages.

    "You Jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creation." So wrote the "Bard of Avon." But nicknames were common long before his time. Doctor ...

    Article : 547 words
  13. Dwarf Communities.

    Mr. Albert B. Lloyd gives an account of his journeyings in Central Africa in his volume entitled "In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country." The author is a member ...

    Article : 335 words
  14. The Needle.

    The Roman proverb corresponding with our "To hit the nail on the head" was "To touch the question with the point of the needle," a proverb which indicates not only ...

    Article : 420 words
  15. Ch[?] Nulsance in Ocean Travel.

    "One of the nuisances of ocean travel" (says a Boston citizen) is the way the chairs on deck are managed. These chairs are now owned by a large firm here in New ...

    Article : 442 words
  16. Dramatic Censors.

    Judging from an article in "Figaro," the office of dramatic censor in Paris is no sinecure. They are expected to read in manuscript all the plays, pantomimes, and songs ...

    Article : 302 words
  17. "Searching" is Skilled Work

    Attached to every police station is at least one "female searcher." It is her pleasant duty to thoroughly examine the clothing, and even comb out the hair, of ...

    Article : 319 words
  18. Pay of Naval Officers.

    It will be interesting if we compare the status and pay of German officers of the navy with those serving in the British marine. A German Admiral of the fleet ...

    Article : 412 words
  19. Next Door to It.

    There is a prominent business man in Detroit who always appears in white choker, wears a high hat, a smoothly-shaven face, a genial smile, and a frock coat. ...

    Article : 290 words
  20. Too Sure

    This is a little story which shows the disadvantage of being too sure. A commercial traveller who had been staying at a hotel in B—, while he did business in the ...

    Article : 274 words
  21. Bayonet Charges and Wounds

    Some of the stories about bayonet, charges and bayonet wounds coming from the buttlefields of South Africa, which appear to be taken seriously by civilians, are simply ...

    Article : 289 words
  22. Peasant and Queen.

    Queen Victoria frequently visits her tenantry on the Balm ral estates, and a little book could be written about the romantic meetings of Queen and peasant, says the ...

    Article : 134 words
  23. How to Talk Scotch.

    It has been said that the Scottish dialect is peculiarly powerful in its use of vowels, and the following dialogue between a shopman and a customer has been given as a ...

    Article : 67 words
  24. At a Street Corner.

    Some years ago the city of Manchester was the scone of a riot, during which the police were in danger of their lives, and were afraid to appear in the streets. One ...

    Article : 69 words
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