Soak one ounce of gelatine in a pint of cold water. Let this stand twenty minutes. Then dissolve over the fire, add the thinly-pared-rind pared rind of ...
Article : 427 wordsBut that is when my story ends. It began in the heart of an English June; that is to say, the part of It which interests us particularly began then to ...
Article : 2,683 wordsThe formula for success in life which the late Baron Rothschild laid down for young men was:— Shun liquor. ...
Article : 102 wordsIn his “Life and Letters of Whittler,” Mr. Samuel T. Pickard gives an-anecdote about an ox, called “Old Butler,” as related by the Quaker poet: ...
Article : 122 wordsThere died recently at Bradford, at the age of seventy-six a remarkable woman named Elizabeth Dawson. For sixty-four years she had carried on a ...
Article : 97 wordsA wedding is the one occasion where the woman always outshines the man She is the heroine, and there Is no hero. The role of bridegroom is far ...
Article : 115 wordsPractical wisdom consists in saying the obvious thing at the right time. True courage consists doing the obvious thing in an emergency. ...
Article : 837 wordsWe are all in favour of peace, but there are some hot disagreements about how to get it. He who tells me of my faults is my ...
Article : 486 wordsI know my husband really tries, A pleasant home to make, But he can’t seem to make such pies As father used to bake. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe first grand opera was produced in Florence three hundred years ago. Russia is increasing in population faster than any country in the world. ...
Article : 1,002 wordsUnder many conditions hot water is one of the most potent remedial agents that can be employed, and often, when intelligently used, it accomplishes ...
Article : 412 wordsEvery ocean traveller is familiar with those curious tropical formations, coral reefs. To the geologist they have a special interest as the occasion of ...
Article : 298 wordsBeat 3 eggs well together with 1½ teacupful of castor sugar, then gradually stir in 2 teacupful of self-raising flour. Fill 2 flat sandwich tins and ...
Article : 99 wordsA change from the ordinary gingerbread cake: Take half. pound flour and mix half ounce ground ginger with it; warm half pound treacle, two ...
Article : 172 wordsThe thing that has impressed me most during these last few weeks is the almost universal careworn expression of the women everywhere, and the ...
Article : 476 wordsThere is no place where humus is more important than in tie fruit garden. The soil needs to be loose and full of vegetable matter. This will ...
Article : 205 wordsShe was a woman white-haired, thin, un comely, and with few traces of beauty, for her life had been full of hardship, disappointment and ...
Article : 147 wordsOne pound of flour, half a pound of butter and lard mixed, half a pound of sultanas, half a pound of currants, quarter of a pound of candied mixed ...
Article : 113 wordsLittle Mistress Merryface Dances down the way With a fairy’s airy grace, Cheerful all the day. ...
Article : 147 wordsA young man from the country had applied to his physician for advice. After prescribing the regimen he wished his patient to follow, he added— ...
Article : 81 wordsThe truth of the proverb as to the power of music over human passions has seldom been more strikingly illustrated than in an incident either ...
Article : 202 wordsLady (engaging servant): “You seem to possess every necessary qualification. Have you a sweetheart?” Pretty Servant: “No, mum, but I ...
Article : 334 wordsOne of the oddest things to witness, If not one of the most disagreeable to encounter, Is the faculty some people have of taking offence when no ...
Article : 264 wordsThe famous Trappist monks near Antwerp, among whom speech is punishable [?] a bread and water diet, have their counterpart in the ...
Article : 268 wordsMr. Carnegie has lately been at Dundee opening a new gymnasium and fives-court provided for the University College by Mr. Robert ...
Article : 245 wordsFirst Comedian: “Did you score a hit with your new speciality?” Second Comedian. “Did [?] Why, the audience gazed in open-mouthed ...
Article : 43 words“The goods we are putting on the market now, said the manager, “are not as pure as we have been selling:” “They’e not !” exclaimed the ...
Article : 132 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: