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  2. Cooking by Electricity.

    The most interesting development in domestic life with which women have to deal is cooking by electricity. Every woman knows that the kitchen range is ...

    Article : 385 words
  3. The Sketcher.

    Suleiman, a Cretan Moslem, foreseeing evil times, had with great reluctance despatched his two wives to Gonstauti[?]ople. The noise of the weeping ...

    Article : 1,626 words
  4. Short Story.

    It was May Waldegrave's sympathetic nature rather than her charms of face and figure that led Mark Carstone, the author of " A Trifling Affair," to ...

    Article : 1,537 words
  5. Household Hints.

    Knives and forks after having been used for fish should be stuck in the garden mould for ten minutes, and then crashed in hot or cold water. ...

    Article : 65 words
  6. The Table.

    Will turn into a relishing dish if prepared as follows:—Make ½tb. breadcrumbs, and mix them with sufficient bacon fat melted to make them look ...

    Article : 93 words
  7. To Keep Dishcloths Clean.

    No articles in kitchen use are so likely to be neglected and abused as the dishcloths and dish-towels. Put a teaspoonful of ammonia into the water in ...

    Article : 73 words
  8. Sardines on Toast.

    Bone and pound in a mortar six sardines, add l½oz. butter, and spread on toast, previously buttered and spread with French mustard; or lay the ...

    Article : 36 words
  9. Oinger Wine.

    To make 5 gallons dissolve 9lb. of loaf sugar in 5 gallons of boiling water; then add 5oz. bruised ginger and the rind of six lemons pared thinly. Boil these ...

    Article : 108 words
  10. Borax Dentifrice.

    Four ounces of powdered precipitated chalk, 2oz. of powdered borax, loz. of powdered myrrh, loz. of powdered orrisroot, loz. of powdered cinnamon. Mix ...

    Article : 28 words
  11. Camphorated Chalk.

    Four ounces of powdered precipitated chalk, loz. of powdered camphor flowers, 2oz. of powdered orris-root, loz. of carbonate of magnesia. Mix well, and ...

    Article : 30 words
  12. Pumpkin Jam.

    To each llb. of pumpkin allow llb. loaf sugar and a teacupful of lemon juice. A little of the peel may also be finely chopped. Peel and out the pumpkin in ...

    Article : 114 words
  13. Hints to Housekeepers.

    Tc improve starch, add a tablespoonful of Epsom salts and dissolve it in the usual way by boiling. Articles starched with this will be stiffer, and rendered, ...

    Article : 169 words
  14. Imitation Preserved Ginger.

    Peel, take out the seeds, and cut the pumpkin into small squares, place them either in cold water or a thin syrup for twelve hours, drain, and lay on dishes ...

    Article : 106 words
  15. A Typewriter which Licks Creation.

    The ingenious artists who wrote 500 words on a postcard and a popular song on a threepenny piece may now take a back seat ...

    Article : 289 words
  16. Insect Pests.

    Nothing breeds cockroaches more rapidly than a wet sink, damp housecloths lying about, and crumbs of any sort. When you clean house, sprinkle ...

    Article : 231 words
  17. Just as a Suggestion.

    The thoughtful man took the Labour leader by the lapel of his coat, and led him to one side. "It pains me to note," he said, "that ...

    Article : 332 words
  18. Haricot Mutton.

    Get about 1lb. of nice mutton chops, trim away most of the fat (neck chops are best, as you can get them smaller), then fry them a little until they ...

    Article : 152 words
  19. Daily Customs of the Mikado.

    The "Japanese American Voice" describes the daily customs of the Mikado as follows:—His Majesty's daily customs are very ...

    Article : 451 words
  20. Dogs and Bicycles.

    A new form of cruelty has recently been brought to light under the action of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, consisting of ...

    Article : 249 words
  21. To Clean Glass Globes.

    Soak in warm soda water, add a few drops of ammonia, and wash with soaped flannel; rinse in clean cold water, and dry with a linen glasscloth. ...

    Article : 34 words
  22. To Darn rents in Woollen Goods.

    To darn rents in woollen goods, always use ravellings of the material, even if these can only be obtained in short pieces; and do the work finely, evenly, ...

    Article : 136 words
  23. Canaries for Convicts.

    In the United States prisoners are treated with a degree of clemency Unit would excite amazement in our own convict establishments. A curious in ...

    Article : 327 words
  24. The Mothers of Kings.

    Nearly all the Kings and Queens of Europe are descended from, two sisters, daughters of Duke Louts Rudolph, of Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel, who died in 1735, ...

    Article : 252 words
  25. Ivory Knife Handles.

    Ivory knife handles that have become yellow may be bleached by placing them under a bell-glass in the sun. If the ivory is carved, and the crevices have ...

    Article : 69 words
  26. Returning Good for Evil.

    Parson Whangdoodle Baxter meets Jim Webster, one of his parishioners. "I hopes dat yer am still walkin in de narrer paff, Jeems." ...

    Article : 458 words
  27. Your Troubles.

    There is nothing so certain to make you disliked as to tell your troubles to a friend. Prosperity means friendship, but once you take it into your head to ...

    Article : 238 words
  28. Bill Johnson on Feligion.

    I hain't no stickler, fellers, On sich ez-sects an creeds, But Judges folks accordin To the natur[?]o[?] thur deeds. ...

    Article : 210 words
  29. A Pair of Shoes Made in Twenty Minutes.

    One of the big Lynn shoe-shops made a pair of ladies' boots for the Paris Exhibition of 1889 in twenty-four minutes. A notary public followed the operation, watch in ...

    Article : 202 words
  30. The Brotherhood of Man.

    A pleasing illustration of the brotherhood of man, even as it affects the genus tramp, comes to hand from a Northern town. ...

    Article : 213 words
  31. The Barbary Ape.

    This creature, interesting but ugly, has been known from the earliest times as one of the world's animal curiosities. The record of the Zoological Society ...

    Article : 119 words
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