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Hashimura Togo, Domestic Scientist

Hashimura Togo, Domestic Scientist

by Wallace Irvin

In reading this intellectual volume of words I hopes that Mrs. Public & Husband will realize what I am stabbing at. Science in kitchen, rugs, vacuum cleaners, babies etc is what I wish teach all homes. Can this be accomplish? Answer is, Yes!! For housekeeping can get to be a Science just like warfare and pulling teeth.And in each of those lette..

How to live -  A manual of hygiene for use in the schools of the Philippine

How to live - A manual of hygiene for use in the schools of the Philippine

by Adeline Knapp

In America, where they make the best locomotive engines in the world, they say that the life of an engine is about twenty years. That is, when they build an engine, they know about how much work it will have to do and what usage it is likely to have. They know that the engine is strong enough to do such work and stand such usage for twenty years. S..

The Essays of Douglas Jerrold

The Essays of Douglas Jerrold

by Douglas William Jerrold

Much of Douglas Jerrold’s writing took essay form although he only applied the title to five short pieces which were added as Essays to The Chronicles of Clovernook in 1846. Those five pieces are included in this volume along with others from his collected works, and from among those scattered contributions to periodicals which have been brought to..

The Frozen North -  An Account of Arctic Exploration for Use in Schools

The Frozen North - An Account of Arctic Exploration for Use in Schools

by Edith Horton

While abundant material has been put before children with the purpose of making them familiar with the history and industrial development of various parts of the known world, very little has been written to inform them of the work which is now being done in the comparatively unknown regions of the north, or of the history of the early discoveries w..

Jingles

Jingles

by Frank J. Medina

ALONEIt’s queer how seasons affect us sometimes,BOARDER’S SOLILOQUYTo board or not to board? That is the question,ECHOES FROM THE SEADrifting along in my gallant craft,ESCAPED FROM THE LAWThey started out all bright and gay,GOING, GOING, GONEWhere are you going, my dear young man?HER GENTLEMAN FRIENDHe’s tall, handsome; eyes of blue;I’S OO BOYI hug..

Quicksands

Quicksands

by B. M. Croker

One sultry September afternoon, some years ago, my brother Ronald and I, being tired and dusty, found a temporary resting-place on the parapet of a little old bridge that spanned a sleepy stream. Through a thin silk blouse a comforting sun beat upon my back, and I was serenely conscious of an unusual sense of happiness and well-being—though I owed ..

Floral Illustrations of the Seasons

Floral Illustrations of the Seasons

by Margaret Roscoe

The present state of botanical knowledge renders it impossible for the Author of this Work to indulge in a hope, that she can add anything to the learning and research which distinguish the science: as a humble follower of those who have added so much to our information on these subjects, she would walk in their delightful paths, and gather some of..

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 5, November 1841

Graham's Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 5, November 1841

by George R. Graham

When a man becomes so far lost to a sense of self-importance, as not only to tell, but actually to write stories,—thus recording his turpitude in black and white—it is not to be presumed that slight consequences will deter him from his purpose. Indeed, it is rather to be supposed that he has made up his mind to despise public opinion, and to brave ..