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A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-making
by Sylvester GrahamThere are probably few people in civilized life, who—were the question put to them directly—would not say, that they consider bread one of the most, if not the most important article of diet which enters into the food of man. And yet there is, in reality, almost a total and universal carelessness about the character of bread. Thousands in civic lif..
Aunt Lydia's Designs
by American Thread CompanyWith crochet hook make a loop, drop loop. Remove bar from staple, place dropped loop on left prong with yarn to front of staple, replace bar. Working with bar at bottom and curve at top, pass yarn over right prong to back of staple keeping the beg of loop at center. Insert hook through loop and pull yarn through, yarn over and pull through loop, * ..
Good Newes from New England
by Edward WinslowBoth colonies being thus agreed, and their companies fitted and joined together, we resolved to set forward, but were oft crossed in our purposes. As first Master Richard Greene, brother-in-law to master Weston, who from him had a charge in the oversight and government of his colony, died suddenly at our Plantation, to whom we gave burial befitting..
South Africa; vol I
by Anthony TrollopeIT was in April of last year, 1877, that I first formed a plan of paying an immediate visit to South Africa. The idea that I would one day do so had long loomed in the distance before me. Except the South African group I had seen all our great groups of Colonies,—among which in my own mind I always include the United States, for to my thinking, our..
The Little Review, August 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 5)
by Margaret C. AndersonThe dead fingers of spent passions, spent dreams, spent youth clutch at the throat of the rising generation and preserve the integrity of the American family. Not that there is a typical American family. There is only the typical struggle between the dead and the living, between the inert and hideous virtue of decayed souls and the rebellious desir..
South Africa; vol II
by Anthony TrollopeWe travelled something over thirty miles a day, always being careful not to allow the horses to remain at their work above two hours and a half at a time. Then we would “out-span,”—take the horses out from the carriage, knee-hobble them and turn them loose with their forage spread upon the ground. Then all our energies would be devoted to the tea k..
The Lighter Classics in Music
by David EwenJoseph Achron was born in Lozdzieje, Lithuania, on May 13, 1886. He attended the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied the violin with Leopold Auer and theory with Anatol Liadov, graduating in 1904. After teaching at the Kharkov Conservatory for three years, he toured Russia, Europe and the Near East as a concert violinist for about six yea..
Forest Trees and Forest Scenery
by G. Frederick SchwarzIn the ensuing pages I have made simple inquiries into the sources of beauty and attractiveness in American forest trees and sylvan scenery. In the concluding chapter, by way of contrast, I have given a short account of the esthetic effects of the artificial forests of Europe. The system which shaped these forests and gave them their present appear..