"Salads are not a food of nutriment but are healthful because of mineral salts, which contain cooling and crispness properties--variety they give the diet.
And salads should be served at every luncheon and dinner, the meat salad being served at luncheon or supper, while the lighter in dietetic value with...
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...
At the present time only a portion of Corvallis is sewered and a portion of the city still employs the most crude and unhealthful methods of disposal. The district east of Ninth Street, as shown on the map, has an effective system of well constructed sewers, of the combined storm-water...
Bread is a kind of food made of the flour or meal of some species of grain, by kneading it (with the addition of a little salt, and sometimes sugar) into a dough, yeast being commonly added to cause fermentation or "lightness", and then baking it. The yeast causes alcoholic...
In taking up this study of the evolution of the
home, we have considered it not so much as a dwelling place
for a family, but as a structure - first, as a
natural, later as an artificial edifice, a work of
architecture, tracing the history of home - building...
M. E. Hard defines a mushroom as "a cellular,
flowerless plant, nourished by the mycelium which permeates
the soil or other substances on which the mushroom
grows".
In all probability mushrooms are the most, interesting of all the higher organized fungi. Within the past few years, interest in them has...