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  2. Housekeeper.

    OIL stove[?] and gas stoves should never be kept burning in a sleeping room, for they are burnt in the open air of the room and, having no connection wi[?]h ...

    Article : 98 words
  3. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES

    Ingredients:—1lb cooked meat, 1 thick slice of bread and sufficient milk to soak it in, 2 eggs, small onion, carrot and turnip, flour, salt and pepper, sauce to flavor if ...

    Article : 592 words
  4. FOOD FOR EGGS.

    The effect of food on the flavour of eggs is found by an English medical man to be surprising. When the hens aot as scavengers, their eggs are made unfit to eat, but ...

    Article : 50 words
  5. AIR AND THE SKIN.

    If people would only realise that air is the chief food of the skin, they would understand how very important a constant supply of it is to the health, and, therefore, ...

    Article : 109 words
  6. ELECTRICITY AND FOOD

    One of the most useful applications of electricity to ailmentary purposes is in the preserving of meats. The meat is immersed in a salution of common salt, and a ...

    Article : 112 words
  7. Items of Interest.

    BE calm in arguing; for fierceness[?] makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.-George Herbert. Those who put off repentance till another ...

    Article : 533 words
  8. COLOURS AND COMPLEXION.

    When one has a sallow complexion one can ' kill ' it, as the phrase is, by having near the face something so much browner that the skin will seem devoid of brown, or ...

    Article : 119 words
  9. POISONIOUS GARDEN PLANTS.

    Flowers of the jonquil, white hyacinth, and snowdrop all possess a poisonous nature, the narcissus being also particularly deadly, so much indeed, that to chew a ...

    Article : 348 words
  10. TO TEST EGGS.

    A simple, though not absolute, test of an egg's freshness is to place it in a solution of two ounces of salt in one pint of water. New laid eggs usually sink, eggs three days ...

    Article : 187 words
  11. ASTHMATIC ATTACKS.

    The immediate cause of the distress of an asthmatic patient struggling for breath is the contraction of the bronchioles, which prevent the exhalation of the sir from the ...

    Article : 206 words
  12. STEAM V ELECTRICITY.

    We are indebted to the Canadian Official Commercial Agent at Christiania, for an interesting account of the triumph of the electric locomotive in the kingdom of ...

    Article : 201 words
  13. THE CARE OF THE CLOTHING.

    No matter how beautiful or expensive our growns "may be, without proper care they will not retain their stylish appearance. ...

    Article : 183 words
  14. Science and Invention.

    A MASS of rook salt under the province of Galicia. Hungary, is known to be 550 miles long by 20 broad, and 20 feet thick. ...

    Article : 197 words
  15. THE REASON.

    The Literary Editor: 'That fellow Scribbler sent in a poem this morning entitled Why Do I live [?]I' The Editor; 'What did yon do with it?, ...

    Article : 66 words
  16. ARE THE HEAVENLY BODIES INHABITED?

    This was the subject of Prof. Herbert Hall Turner's fourth lecture. The answer of astronomers to that question, he said, was: ' We do not know, but it is probable.' ...

    Article : 285 words
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