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  2. THE GARDEN.

    Stone fruits, such as peaches, apricots, nectarines and plums, are now rapidly gaining in size, and the swelling of the fruit required will be greatly ...

    Article : 389 words
  3. WIT AND HUMOR.

    He How long will our honeymoon last, love? She: How much money have you got, dear? He: I'm afraid you don't like my dancing. She: Quite the contrary; I think it is very ...

    Article : 1,229 words
  4. LOST AMID THE ICE.

    Few ships have had such a welcome home as that which greeted the barque Stork as on the evening of 4th October she moved in stately fashion into the ...

    Article : 876 words
  5. THE LADIES' COLUMN.

    Eggs for Puddings.—When beating up eggs for batter puddings, add a tablespoonful of water to each egg, and beat in with it. Rather less milk will be ...

    Article : 381 words
  6. JONATHAN TO JOHN.

    Sir,—During the late series of letters which have appeared in various journals about imperial defence, Army reform, etc., I have been ...

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  7. ON THE HONEYMOON.

    She said something that rubbed him the wrong way. Seeing the look of pique on his face, she cried: ...

    Article : 133 words
  8. HOMELY FARE.

    Italian Lettuce.—Rinse the lettuce in cold water the morning of the dinner; shake well and drain in a colander, until wanted to serve. Then place in a deep ...

    Article : 702 words
  9. NEED FOR SORROW.

    For many years a certain old follow had been engaged by a local farmer to gather his potatoes at a fixed sum per acre. He died, however. and the former was obliged to get ...

    Article : 175 words
  10. SHORTER DANCING DRESSES.

    The autumn dance season begins in Scotland, and is usually responsible for new vogue as regards dress or dances. This year the shortened dancing skirt ...

    Article : 364 words
  11. SCIENTIFIC LOVEMAKING.

    A professor of the University of Chicago regards the love-match marriage as reckless and reprehensible in the highest degree. He would have it displaced by a method of procedure ...

    Article : 115 words
  12. 60,000 MILES WALK.

    On 6th August, 1900, Mark All, aged seventy-seven, commenced his self-imposed walking tour of 60,000 miles, to be completed by December, 1907. Already ...

    Article : 211 words
  13. THE KITCHEN GARDEN.

    Make successional sowings of French leans, and mulch between the rows of those well above the ground with decayed stable manure. If the ground is dry, ...

    Article : 325 words
  14. HEALTH HINTS.

    Many people wring out a fomentation wrongly. The proper way is this. Place a towel across a hand-basin, with the ends hanging over. Put on this a ...

    Article : 68 words
  15. SOFT GUMS.

    When the gums become soft and the teeth inclined to loosen, paint the gums round the base of the teeth with a camel hair pencil dipped in sal volatile a little ...

    Article : 45 words
  16. NECESSITY OF WATER.

    At least three pints of water should be drunk daily by the average adult, in addition to what is present (50-60 per cent.) in the solid food. A lack of water ...

    Article : 91 words
  17. FRENCH PICTURE OF ENGLAND.

    Two foreign artists of considerable distinction have made their first appearance at London picture galleries. One of these is Mr J. Garnelo Alda, Professor ...

    Article : 310 words
  18. A COLONEL'S CHALLENGE.

    Colonel Pollock, writing to the "Spectator," asserted that "a British Militia recruit could be trained sufficiently to fight Colonial ...

    Article : 196 words
  19. USES FOR HAT AND COLD WATER.

    Cold water bandages relieve a sore throat when caused by cold. Hot water compresses applied at once will check an attack of croup. ...

    Article : 144 words
  20. THE FLOWER GARDEN.

    The weather during the past week has been very changeable and trying to plants just making young growth. All tall-growing herbaceous plants must be ...

    Article : 318 words
  21. "A GOLDEN CITY ON THE SEA."

    One of the most attractive sights on the Cornish coast on a dark night at this time of the year are the lights of the drift fishing boats riding to their ...

    Article : 421 words
  22. MILK DIET FOR FEVER.

    During the first few days of any run of fever there should be no attempt made to give food, for as neither gastric nor pancreatic juices are secreted, the stomach ...

    Article : 193 words
  23. REMINISCENCES OF A SCOTTISH BANKING CRASH.

    The announcement of the death at Gothenburg of Mr John Sawers, a former Provost of Stirling, at the advanced age of eighty-seven, recalls ...

    Article : 125 words
  24. FRENCH VISITORS.

    Just before the late visit of Municipal Councillors to England, a little group lounging in a bureau of the Hotel de Ville—the headquarters of the ...

    Article : 348 words
  25. THE TOLL OF THE MINES.

    Official figures show that 877,057 persons were employed in the mines of the United Kingdom last year, and that 689,967 of this total worked ...

    Article : 180 words
  26. NURSERY NOTES.

    Time was when it was considered impossible for children to escape a certain category of diseases—commonly known as "children's diseases"—as to avoid the teething ...

    Article : 513 words
  27. ENGLAND'S CHANGING HABITS.

    In nothing have the habits of gentlemen in England more changed than in the use of wine. Time was when each plate and table was enfiladed, ...

    Article : 110 words
  28. THE CONSERVATORY AND POT PLANTS.

    As the growth of ferns advances, a re-arrangement of the plants is necessary, otherwise the plants become crowded and dis[?]. The roots should have ...

    Article : 290 words
  29. CURIOUS WILL.

    A strange scene was (writes the New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" on 11th October) witnessed yesterday at the funeral of Mr George ...

    Article : 213 words
  30. THE OCTOPUS USED BY THE JAPANESE.

    Most [?]eaded of all ocean monsters, the octopus, with its staring black eyes, its horny beak and its eight muscular tentacles, each armed with such ...

    Article : 162 words
  31. MR SHAW ON ETON.

    Eton and Oxford, Harrow and Cambridge, with all their depravities and impostures, produce the social habit and easy manners which distinguish all men ...

    Article : 63 words
  32. RAILWAY CASUALTIES.

    According to advanced summaries, of the statistics of railway operation in the United States, in the year ending 30th June 1904, the number of ...

    Article : 82 words
  33. REPORTING A FUNERAL.

    The following appeared in a South of England county paper:—"In the church and around its entrance a large concourse of the residents and friends of the ...

    Article : 66 words
  34. MIGHTY LEGS.

    A late chief staff officer of the Tibet Mission Force, relating some of the experiences of the expedition, said that one day. after hours of [?]orous climbing up a steep and ...

    Article : 94 words
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