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PRACTIEAL LESSONS IN 66 Chemistry of the Household " "Household Bacteriology" "House Sanitation" 66 "Food and Dietetics" "Scientific Principles of Cookery" Household Management and Accounts" "The House, its Plan, Decoration and Care" "Home Care of the Sick" "Study of Child Life" "Care of Children" "Textiles and Clothing" THE LESSON PAPERS have been prepared especially for home study by Professors and Teachers in Universities and Colleges which take up Household Economics. THE INSTRUCTION is under the direction of the Professors and Teachers who have prepared the Lesson Papers. The aim of the instruction is to reduce the tradi- Amy Teur-"I thought, my dear Count, that you were a judge of music. I wonder at the applause you bestow upon that man's efforts; his singing is abominable." Count Dorame-"Ah, madame, it is not his voice I so admire. It is his bravery. Bravo! Encore!" A "ready-made" tailor in a provincial town has his advertisement outside his shop: "Wear our twenty-one-shilling suits and you will have a fit." A certain Chicago man, who represented one of the wealthiest families in the city, had many peculiarities. Among these was a remarkably fastidious care for forms of speech and pronunciation. One day when he was standing on the Lincoln Park landing-stage, he slipped in some manner and went into the water with a resounding splash. There were a number of people about, and amongst them an old lady, who shrieked as the gentleman disappeared. "He'll be drown-ded," she wailed; "he'll be drown-ded!" Just then the waters parted, and the head of the victim of the accident appeared above the surface. Coughing and spluttering, he looked towards the agitated old lady. "Drowned, you old idiot," he roared, "drowned!" And then they fished him out. Old Gentleman (dictating indignant letter)-"Sir: My typewriter, being a lady, cannot take down what I think of you. I, I, being a gentleman, cannot think it; but you, being neither, can easily guess my thoughts." After he had kissed her and pressed her rosy cheek against his and patted her soft, round chin, she drew back and asked: "George, do you shave yourself?" "I thought so," she said. "Your face is the roughest I ever-" Then she stopped, but it was too late, and he went away with a cold, heavy lump in his breast. A young officer one day went into a barber's shop at Nashville, and, seeing only the boy there, thought to frighten him. Said he: "Boy, I want a shave, but be careful not to cut me. If you do," drawing his sword and laying it across his knees, "I shall put this through you." "Yes, sir," replied the boy calmly as he proceeded to his task, which he finished satisfactorily. "You are a good boy," said the officer, giving him half a dollar. "But weren't you afraid?" "Not at all, sir," said the boy. "But I should have done if you had cut me." "You wouldn't, sir." "Why not?" as I said "Why, because if I had cut you at all I should have cut your bloomin' head off!" Last evening a gentleman who was sitting by his suburban window casually remarked: "There goes the woman whom George Brown's awfully in love with." His wife, who was in the back room getting supper ready, dropped a plate on the floor, stumbled over the baby, and ran like a deer to the window. "Where? Where? Tell me quick!" "The one with the long cloak, just at the corner." Then the woman at the window said, in tones of deep disgust: "Why, that's George Brown's wife." "Yes, exactly," remarked the brutal husband. Then the disappointed woman went back and got supper ready, but her usually sweet disposition was soured for the entire evening. OUR CHRISTENING After the careful recording of the different names for the magazine suggested by our subscribers, the editors finally decided upon "The Technical World." We take this opportunity of thanking our students for the deep interest they have shown, and only wish that we had a hundred magazines to christen instead of one, the titles sent in being so good. Many of the cover designs suggested by our students were genuine works of art. |