In the educational wave that is sweeping our country from ocean to ocean, technical education is at its crest, and no phase is more popular than domestic science. Indeed it has such a hold upon public opinion that it is quite the fashion, a commendable fact, for as soon as...
The author has not previously had any course in
House Construction, but the inspiration for the these
was received from having seen the work done by a class
in that subject. The plans for the house, with the windows,
doors, cupboards in the kitchen, fireplaces, some
of the furniture and...
Water is one of the primary wants of
human life no less essential than air and food hence
the strong and religious interest that has been
attached to the means of its supply. In the earliest
records of civilization we read of the digging of
wells and building of water...
Only within the last few years have literary critics
come to recognize in the short story a definite type,
one having its own individual characteristics and limitations.
It differs from the novel in a brevity not
merely accidental which prohibits the too extensive development of the three elements of the...