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The best time for collecting the mosses is in the early morning, when, on your return, there is leisure for immediately laying them out. If you leave them until the next day, th...

Any child or young lady who can make a shirt well, can easily manufacture all female undergarments; patterns for cutting out will be all that will be required. Both cotton and l...

When you deal a card that cannot be placed on the corner families in succession, place it on the sides of the square, between the foundation cards, as three of clubs, and nine o...

Transparencies in thin silk or muslin can be made by tightly stretching the material on to a frame. The designs are then subjected to two coatings of the clearing liquid applied...

To form a pyramid of flowers, take three, four, or five wooden bowls, according to the size you wish for your pyramid; let them be a regular gradation in size; procure some roun...

Nearly all kinds of flower seeds require transplanting, therefore it is best to plant in boxes, pots, or hot-beds. Old cigar boxes are convenient, and are easily handled, but fi...

The contents of the pie may be sugar hearts, rings, kisses, or any bonbons, mock rings, or gold rings, indeed, any article which can be easily tied up in a small bundle. It is d...

A. Plant in the centre Scarlet Salvia, around that the white Centaurea Gymnocarpa, bordered by Blue Lobelia. (All these beds should have either a low border of box or turf.)

_Safe._ An actor takes the part of a distracted mother, rushes around the room exclaiming, “My child is lost!” “He must be drowned!” &c. Soon one of the actors can rush in with...

When answering in the imitative voice, the breath must be _held back, and expelled very slowly, and the voice will come in a subdued and muffled manner_, little above a whisper,...

Shakespeare Reading Clubs 23 Private Theatricals 27 Charades 30 Con ju-gate 32 Dumb-found 33 So-ro-sis 34 Lamentable 35 Proverbs 37 Tableaux Vivants 38 Tableaux of Statuary 39 L...

In conclusion, we would beg our young readers to make friends of books. They will cheer many an hour that would otherwise be lonely; they are kind, ever ready, yet unobtrusive c...