item: #1 of 61 id: 11078 author: Quigley, Dorothy title: What Dress Makes of Us date: None words: 13431 flesch: 68 summary: Thin women with necks that look like the strings of a violin should swathe, smother, decorate, and adorn their throats with lace or gossamer fabrics that have the same quality as lace. [Illustration: NO. 55] Tall, stout women should forego high heels on their shoes, high hats, and striped dresses. keywords: appearance; coat; dress; face; hair; hat; head; illustration; lace; lines; look; style; type; waist; woman cache: 11078.txt plain text: 11078.txt item: #2 of 61 id: 12642 author: Unknown title: The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850 Consisting of Novel, Elegant, and Useful Designs in Knitting, Netting, Crochet, Braiding, and Embroidery, with Clear and Explicit Directions for Working the Patterns date: None words: 20379 flesch: 92 summary: STITCH.--This resembles long stitch, excepting that the cotton is twisted twice round the needle. SINGLE OPEN CROCHET.--This is a succession of long stitches, with a chain-stitch between each, missing one stitch of the foundation; in the succeeding rows the long stitch is worked between the two long stitches of the preceding rows. keywords: c s; centre; chain; chain crochet; double; french; illustration; long; loop; plain; round; row; stitch; stitches; work cache: 12642.txt plain text: 12642.txt item: #3 of 61 id: 14664 author: Williams, Archibald title: Things To Make date: None words: 71206 flesch: 79 summary: This will give you the number of tube inches filled by the 4 inches in the receiver. The target-holder is a piece of wood 1-1/2 inches square, and a couple of inches longer than the side of the largest target to be used. keywords: air; boiler; box; brass; case; centre; crank; cut; cylinder; diameter; disc; edge; end; ends; feet; fig; fit; half; holes; illustration; inch; inch brass; inch wood; inches; length; line; mark; outside; paper; parts; piece; piston; point; position; rod; round; screw; sides; solder; square; steam; tube; tubing; use; valve; water; wheel; wire; wood cache: 14664.txt plain text: 14664.txt item: #4 of 61 id: 15147 author: Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) title: Beeton's Book of Needlework date: None words: 93105 flesch: 84 summary: The number of stitches depends on the length and size of the cotton; work double stitches round the circles at the place where both ends meet. Materials: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s tatting cotton No. 30; tatting-pin No. 3. Begin by working separately a sufficient number of small rosettes, each composed of six ovals of double stitches and purl. keywords: 1st; chain stitch; circle; cotton; cotton round; crochet; crochet cotton; double; embroidery cotton; hole stitch; illustration; knit; lace; long; needle; pattern; point; purl; purl stitch; repeat; round; row; satin stitch; slip stitch; stitch work; stitches; tatting; throw; work cache: 15147.txt plain text: 15147.txt item: #5 of 61 id: 15460 author: Milton, Archie Seldon title: A Course In Wood Turning date: None words: 14693 flesch: 81 summary: From there extend the line to where the next 90° line crosses circle B-B´ at point B´. For all work up to 3 in diameter, the surface may be smoothed by using a small skew chisel in the same manner as in squaring the ends of Stock in cylinder work. keywords: chisel; cut; cuts; cutting; cylinder; lathe; stock; tool; turning; wood; work cache: 15460.txt plain text: 15460.txt item: #6 of 61 id: 15831 author: Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell) title: The Scientific American Boy; Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island date: None words: 62388 flesch: 86 summary: Side pieces of the Scow.] Then another pair of side logs were laid on, and so the work progressed. keywords: bill; boards; boat; bridge; camp; canoe; center; cut; door; dutchy; edge; end; ends; feet; fig; foot; frame; ice; illustration; inches; island; line; log; logs; piece; place; river; rope; sail; scow; set; shoe; snow; stick; tent; time; uncle; water; way; wheel; wind cache: 15831.txt plain text: 15831.txt item: #7 of 61 id: 16605 author: Unknown title: The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. date: None words: 74163 flesch: 87 summary: 6th: 9 l., 5 ch., miss 1 loop, 9 l., * 5 ch., d.c. into 4th loop, 7 ch., 9 l., the 1st into 3rd loop from d.c. stitch in last row, repeat from *. 7th: 12 l., 5 ch., miss 1 loop, 12 l., * 5 ch., 1 l. into centre loop of 5 ch., 9 ch., 1 l. into 3rd loop of the 7 ch., from d.c. stitch in last row, 5 ch., 3 d.c. Having finished one round, see whether a s.c., d.c., or t.c. stitch begins the next; for s.c. make one chain, for d.c. three, for t.c. four; slip the needle out, and twist the chain, then continue working. keywords: 1st l.; 2nd l.; 4th l.; 7 l.; close; d.c; gold; l. stitches; miss; open; repeat; round; steel; white cache: 16605.txt plain text: 16605.txt item: #8 of 61 id: 17935 author: Bitmead, Richard title: French Polishing and Enamelling: A Practical Work of Instruction date: None words: 34344 flesch: 70 summary: For this reason, and having in view the high and increasing price of stock, it seems to us that this really superior method of finishing in oil must take the place of shellac and varnish-finish in good work. The process of enamelling in oil varnishes as applied to furniture must be understood as a smooth, glossy surface of various colours produced by bodies of paint and varnish skilfully rubbed down, and prepared in a peculiar way so as to produce a surface equal to French polish. keywords: 1/6; 8vo; black; brush; cloth; coat; colour; crown; dry; edition; filling; finish; french; furniture; gas; gum; illustrations; iron; light; linseed; net; oil; paper; piece; polish; polishing; process; processes; red; rubber; shellac; spirits; surface; time; turpentine; use; varnish; walnut; water; white; wood; work cache: 17935.txt plain text: 17935.txt item: #9 of 61 id: 18901 author: Burbank, Emily title: Woman as Decoration date: None words: 41486 flesch: 64 summary: With the assistance of thirty-three illustrations to throw light upon the text, we have tried to tell the beguiling story of decorative woman, as she appears in frescoes and bas reliefs of Ancient Egypt, on Greek vases, the Gothic woman in tapestry and stained glass, woman in painting, stucco and tapestry of the Renaissance, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century woman in portraits. As a matter of fact, decorative woman rules the fashions, and if decorative woman makes up her mind to retain a line or a limit, she does it. keywords: art; artist; background; black; blue; body; century; chapter; clothes; colour; costume; costuming; day; decoration; dress; fashion; form; gold; good; gothic; gown; greek; hair; hand; hat; head; illustration; jewels; life; line; men; mind; modern; mrs; neck; new; outline; period; plate; point; portrait; red; room; time; type; use; waist; way; wear; white; woman; work cache: 18901.txt plain text: 18901.txt item: #10 of 61 id: 19740 author: Martin, Gene Allen title: Make Your Own Hats date: None words: 23578 flesch: 83 summary: CRINOLINE-- Comes in black and white, twenty-seven inches wide--a stiff, thin, open-meshed material, used to make soft hat frames, to cover wire frames, and in bias strips to cover edge wire after it is sewed on the fabric frame. In making wire frames, it is used as edge wire and sometimes for the entire frame. keywords: brim; crown; cut; edge wire; hat; headsize; inch; inches; material; piece; place; sew; tie wire; wire; wire frame cache: 19740.txt plain text: 19740.txt item: #11 of 61 id: 20386 author: Christie, Grace title: Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving date: None words: 48970 flesch: 72 summary: Loosely woven linens can be obtained specially suitable for drawn thread work. DRAWN THREAD WORK In drawn work the question is how to treat the remaining warp threads after the weft has been withdrawn. keywords: century; colour; design; embroidery; end; example; fig; frame; gold; ground; hand; illustration; kind; left; line; material; method; needle; pattern; plate; point; right; shows; silk; stitch; stitches; thread; thread work; use; warp; way; weaving; work; working cache: 20386.txt plain text: 20386.txt item: #12 of 61 id: 20776 author: Dillmont, Thérèse de title: Encyclopedia of Needlework date: None words: 145300 flesch: 85 summary: 125).--Fill in every other diagonal row of meshes with chain stitch, inserting the needle into the same mesh it came out of, so that the thread lies in front of the needle, in a loop. The rows of chain stitch may be made with two or three rows of meshes between them. keywords: 1st; 2nd; 3rd; 4th; chain =; chain stitches; coton; cross stitch; d.m.c; d.m.c nos; double; fig; fil; half; illustration; knit; knots; lace stitch; left; loop; needle; nos; pair =; pattern; picot; plain; point; purl; right; round; row; rows; second; single; stitch =; stitches =; thread; treble; work; | | cache: 20776.txt plain text: 20776.txt item: #13 of 61 id: 20846 author: Noyes, William title: Handwork in Wood date: None words: 66723 flesch: 87 summary: _ Fig. 302. The boundaries of townships, sections, quarter sections, eighties, forties, etc., are indicated by blazes on trees, Fig. 2, so that the cruiser or looker as he goes thru the woods can identify them with those on his oil paper map. keywords: angle; bench; bit; board; chisel; cut; cutter; cutting; dovetail; edge; end; fig; frame; gage; glue; grain; hand; illustration; iron; joint; knife; length; line; logs; member; mortise; nails; oil; order; parts; piece; plane; right; saw; screw; set; sides; square; steel; surface; tenon; tools; use; water; way; wood; work cache: 20846.txt plain text: 20846.txt item: #14 of 61 id: 21032 author: Mee, Cornelia title: Exercises in Knitting date: None words: 17198 flesch: 85 summary: As the number of stitches required to work each pattern will be mentioned, these patterns can easily be applied for any other purpose, and are most of them well adapted for doilies. Cast on 116 stitches; if wished for any other purpose, cast on any number of stitches that will divide by 17, and 14 stitches over, to make the pattern correspond at the edges. keywords: knit; plain; repeat; rows; seam; stitches cache: 21032.txt plain text: 21032.txt item: #15 of 61 id: 21531 author: Fairham, William title: Woodwork Joints: How They Are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. date: None words: 37265 flesch: 81 summary: A joint of this type may be applied in nearly all cases where a halved or a mortise and tenon joint could be used. This is also called an Open slot mortise and tenon joint, a good strong, serviceable joint which can be used instead of the closed mortise and tenon type, its advantage being that less labour is required in the making. keywords: chisel; cross; cut; door; dovetail; drawer; edge; end; fig; frame; gauge; hinge; illustration; joint; line; method; piece; plane; position; rail; saw; shows; tenon; tenon joint; timber; wood; work cache: 21531.txt plain text: 21531.txt item: #16 of 61 id: 21534 author: Watson, Kate Heintz title: Textiles and Clothing date: None words: 43325 flesch: 76 summary: Cottonade--Stout cotton cloth in imitation of woolen or worsted; used for men's trousers. Cotton thread wears better than linen. keywords: basting; cloth; color; cotton; cut; design; dress; edge; embroidery; fabrics; fibers; finish; garment; goods; hand; hem; home; illustration; linen; lining; machine; making; material; needle; ornament; pattern; right; seam; sewing; sidenote; silk; skirt; sleeve; spinning; stitch; stitches; thread; use; waist; warp; wool; work cache: 21534.txt plain text: 21534.txt item: #17 of 61 id: 22029 author: McCormack, Mary A. title: Spool Knitting date: None words: 5016 flesch: 87 summary: Knit ten inches of flat web, change to round web by bringing the yarn across the center of the hole in the knitter to the opposite post, and knit ten inches, or the number of inches necessary to go around the neck. It requires eleven yards of yarn to make one yard of flat web on the two-post knitter. keywords: end; illustration; inches; web cache: 22029.txt plain text: 22029.txt item: #18 of 61 id: 22298 author: Zerbe, James Slough title: Practical Mechanics for Boys date: None words: 44467 flesch: 82 summary: It may pay with other tools, but with a lathe never. The grasping part of a vise, or other tool. Joule. keywords: = =; acid; angle; boys; center; cutting; degrees; diameter; end; fig; file; foot; force; form; illustration; inches; iron; lathe; lever; line; measure; metal; oil; ounces; parts; pitch; point; pounds; power; speed; square; surface; time; tool; use; water; way; weight; wheel; work; | | cache: 22298.txt plain text: 22298.txt item: #19 of 61 id: 22325 author: None title: The Art of Modern Lace Making date: None words: 17993 flesch: 75 summary: Not all people know the difference between point lace which is made with the needle, and pillow lace which is made with the bobbins--but much of the beautiful point lace of the present day is made with the needle, and its beauty stands a favorable comparison with the more costly pillow lace. Thus, in making Honiton and point lace, thread in twelve different degrees of fineness is used; and as the braids also vary in size, the thread must always be adapted to the braid. keywords: bars; battenburg; braid; bruxelles; design; fine; illustration; lace; making; net; point; point lace; stitches; thread; work cache: 22325.txt plain text: 22325.txt item: #20 of 61 id: 23666 author: Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven) title: Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 3 date: None words: 20229 flesch: 88 summary: side pieces can also be stained at this time. side pieces and the brass corners with the small brass screws as shown on the drawing, and the table is complete. keywords: cut; detail; ends; illustration; pieces; posts; rails; s-2; s-4; square cache: 23666.txt plain text: 23666.txt item: #21 of 61 id: 23770 author: Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven) title: Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 1 date: None words: 19773 flesch: 85 summary: The top board, which is 34 by 54 in., can be fitted with end pieces as shown or left in one piece with the edges made rounding. This also depends on matching other pieces of furniture. keywords: chair; cut; ends; illustration; mission; oak; pieces; posts; rails; s-2; sides; square; stand; wood cache: 23770.txt plain text: 23770.txt item: #22 of 61 id: 26068 author: Anonymous title: The Bath Tatting Book date: None words: 6999 flesch: 94 summary: With the plain shuttle thread on the little finger 2 D. Begin a plain shuttle oval; 2 D join to the last L of last plain shuttle oval; 2 D (L, 2 D twice) draw tight. Begin an oval, with the figured shuttle, 3 D join to the next 2 Ls of the strip; 3 D draw tight; 3 D join to the next L of the strip; 3 D tie to the last L of plain shuttle thread; 3 D join to the next L of the strip; 3 D tie to the last L, but one, of plain shuttle thread (3 D join to the next L of the strip; 3 D, L, with the plain shuttle thread; twice); 3 D join to the space, next the last L to which you joined, 3 D. Repeat this row 6 times, or until all the Ls of the strip have been joined in. keywords: shuttle cache: 26068.txt plain text: 26068.txt item: #23 of 61 id: 26113 author: Anonymous title: Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet date: None words: 22882 flesch: 88 summary: Chain 3, wool over, draw a loop through 1st stitch, over, draw a loop through next stitch, over, draw a loop through same stitch, over, draw a loop through next stitch, over, draw through all the loops on needle, * chain 4, a double in 1st stitch of the chain just made, which closes or joins the cluster of loops, over, draw a loop through same stitch with last loop of preceding cluster, over, draw a loop through next stitch, over, draw a loop through same stitch, over, draw a loop through next stitch, over, draw through all the loops on needle, and repeat from *; turn. 2. Draw up a loop, insert hook in 1st stitch, * wool over, draw up a loop, wool over, hook in next stitch, over, draw up a loop, wool over, draw through all the loops on hook, chain 1, insert hook in same stitch, and repeat from * until there are 19 wedge-stitches in the round. keywords: chain; double; knit; needle; purl; repeat; row; rows; stitches; turn cache: 26113.txt plain text: 26113.txt item: #24 of 61 id: 26120 author: Lowes, Emily Leigh title: Chats on Old Lace and Needlework date: None words: 37266 flesch: 69 summary: Messrs. Haywards (whose courtesy is as boundless as their reputation) are always pleased to show this and their other splendid specimen collections to those interested in old lace. With the aid of these little charts, a remembrance of the various styles and a few actual specimens of lace, and _a powerful magnifying glass_, it is not beyond the power of any reader of this little book to become expert in the identification of old lace. keywords: art; brussels; brussels lace; century; collection; design; early; embroideries; embroidery; england; english; fine; france; gold; great; ground; illustration; inches; italian; kensington; lace; making; mary; museum; needlework; old; period; picture; pillow; point; point lace; queen; silk; silver; south; specimens; stitch; stuart; thread; time; venetian; work; yards cache: 26120.txt plain text: 26120.txt item: #25 of 61 id: 28269 author: Buckle, Mary title: Art in Needlework: A Book about Embroidery date: None words: 47343 flesch: 76 summary: Of line stitches, for example, some are best suited for straight lines, others for curved; some for broad lines, others for narrow; some for even lines, others for unequal; some for outlining, others for veining. Embroidery, it has been shown, is much of it on the surface of the stuff, not just needle stitches, but the stitching-on of something--cord, gold thread, or whatever it may be. keywords: art; chain; colour; crewel; design; edge; effect; embroidery; form; gold; ground; illustration; lines; needle; outline; pattern; right; satin; sidenote; silk; stitch; stitch sampler; stitches; stitching; stuff; surface; thread; use; way; white; work; working cache: 28269.txt plain text: 28269.txt item: #26 of 61 id: 28457 author: Riego de la Branchardière, Eléonore title: Golden Stars in Tatting and Crochet date: None words: 6424 flesch: 85 summary: The following Designs are formed by a very simple combination of Tatting and Crochet, the more elaborate style of both Works being avoided, so that any Lady with a knowledge of the first rules of each Art will be able to accomplish the patterns without the least difficulty, the Stars and Diamonds being made in Tatting and afterwards worked round with loops of chain Crochet. To Join, in Crochet--Take the needle out of the loop, put it into the stitch to be joined, and bring the loop through this stitch, always joining to the centre of a loop of chain. keywords: chain; loop; plain; star cache: 28457.txt plain text: 28457.txt item: #27 of 61 id: 29382 author: Anonymous title: The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet date: None words: 46081 flesch: 75 summary: This is called plain stitch, and is to be continued until one round is completed. A CROCHET NECK CHAIN.--Commence with fine plain stitches; then put the needle through the back of the second, and make one stitch plain. keywords: cast; color; end; form; half; illustration; knit; knitting; loop; material; mesh; needle; net; netting; pattern; pearl; plain; round; row; row plain; rows; second; silk; stitch; stitches; threads; wool; work; working cache: 29382.txt plain text: 29382.txt item: #28 of 61 id: 30676 author: Dobbs, Ella Victoria title: Primary Handwork date: None words: 25417 flesch: 75 summary: Very pretty furniture may be made from reeds and raffia, but the processes are too difficult to be successfully performed by small children. Little children are brutally frank in expressing their opinions and need to be taught how to be truthful and yet not unkind. keywords: box; children; class; cut; cutting; fig; good; grade; house; illustration; interest; making; paper; real; sand; school; story; study; table; teacher; time; use; way; wood; work cache: 30676.txt plain text: 30676.txt item: #29 of 61 id: 31630 author: Todd, Mattie Phipps title: Hand-Loom Weaving: A Manual for School and Home date: None words: 29557 flesch: 82 summary: This work will be almost too difficult for _little_ children. Consider the _under_ side of the weaving as the _right_ side. keywords: blue; children; cloth; color; dye; fringe; green; hand; illustration; loom; mats; new; pattern; pint; red; rugs; sidenote; string; strips; use; warp; water; way; weave; weaving; white; woof; wool; work; yellow cache: 31630.txt plain text: 31630.txt item: #30 of 61 id: 31714 author: Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883 title: The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries date: None words: 104770 flesch: 64 summary: Fashion in those days was not quite the chameleon-hued creature that she is at present; nor were the fabrics on which her fancy was displayed quite so light and airy: their gold _was_ gold--not silk covered with gilded silver; and consequently the raiment of those days, inwrought with slips of gold beaten thin and cut into spangles or strips, and sewed on in various patterns, sometimes intermingled with precious stones, would carry its own intrinsic value with it. One while the Englishmen rushed on, another while they fell back; one while the men from over sea charged onwards, and again at other times retreated. keywords: ages; arms; art; battle; beauty; bishop; book; castle; century; chapter; charles; church; circumstance; cloth; clothes; coat; colours; come; country; course; court; day; days; death; des; dress; duke; edward; elizabeth; embroidery; end; england; english; fair; family; fashion; father; female; field; figures; fine; flowers; following; form; france; french; garments; general; gentle; god; gold; golden; good; great; hair; half; hall; hand; hangings; harold; hath; having; head; henry; history; hodge; holy; honour; house; john; kind; king; knight; ladies; lady; large; lay; left; les; life; light; linen; lord; love; man; mantle; mary; means; men; mind; mother; nature; near; needlewoman; needlework; new; order; page; patterns; people; period; person; picture; pieces; place; point; pope; present; prince; purple; queen; rank; reign; robes; romance; round; royal; second; service; set; silk; silver; sir; skill; sort; state; stitch; stones; subject; tapestries; tapestry; taste; thou; thought; thread; thy; time; use; value; walls; way; white; wife; william; women; world; year cache: 31714.txt plain text: 31714.txt item: #31 of 61 id: 33446 author: Leigh, Sarah Ann title: Lace Curtain Cleaning: A Successful Home Business date: None words: 2312 flesch: 69 summary: Get the adjustable-pin stretcher for scallop curtains, and stationary stretcher for straight edge curtains. THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS When the curtains first come in I look them over, if torn or worn, my aim is to not make them any worse; I measure each pair of curtains, length and width, marking it down in a book, for the purpose, with the owner's name, how many pair and the price charged, this keeps me posted for future reference. keywords: business; curtains; time; work cache: 33446.txt plain text: 33446.txt item: #32 of 61 id: 33502 author: Lambert, Miss (F.) title: My Knitting Book date: None words: 14285 flesch: 87 summary: _Thirteenth row_--knit three; knit two together; bring the thread forward, knit three.--Repeat. _Second row_--knit two together; knit three; bring the thread forward, knit three.--Repeat. keywords: cast; forward; knit; knitting; needle; pearl; row; second; slip; stitches; thread; wool cache: 33502.txt plain text: 33502.txt item: #33 of 61 id: 34092 author: Merrifield, Mary P. (Mary Philadelphia) title: Dress as a Fine Art, with Suggestions on Children's Dress date: None words: 27494 flesch: 70 summary: Long dresses, also, add to the apparent height of a figure, and for this reason they are well adapted to short persons. The French, whose taste in dress is so far in advance of our own, say, that ladies who are _cinquante ans sonnés_, should neither wear gay colors, nor dresses of slight materials, flowers, feathers, or much jewelry; that they should cover their hair, wear high dresses and long sleeves. keywords: art; beauty; body; chapter; children; colors; costume; dress; dresses; fashion; fig; figure; foot; form; hair; head; ladies; lady; nature; point; round; shoulders; sleeves; taste; time; waist cache: 34092.txt plain text: 34092.txt item: #34 of 61 id: 34854 author: McGlauflin, Idabelle title: Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care date: None words: 32019 flesch: 84 summary: See Description of Stitches Used in Plain Sewing, page 63. White thread No. 50; needle No. 7. keywords: baste; cloth; cut; edge; end; exercise; fold; half; hem; inch; inches; materials; needle; page; paper; piece; place; right; seam; sewing; sides; stitch; stitches; thread; work cache: 34854.txt plain text: 34854.txt item: #35 of 61 id: 35582 author: Cooper, Marie Jane title: The New Guide to Knitting & Crochet date: None words: 9596 flesch: 85 summary: Third division_--coloured changed to _Third division_--coloured; 27 inrease again changed to increase again 30 Eagle guage changed to Eagle gauge 35 Eagle guage changed to Eagle gauge 44 eight, purl one: changed to eight, purl one; 48 stitches between: changed to stitches between; 48 long stitches: you changed to long stitches; you 51 piece of velvet: changed to piece of velvet; Cast on one hundred and eighty stitches, pins No. 12; knit the length on the pins; pattern stitch is cast over twice, and take two as one; knit one; do this for five rows, knitting back plain each time; then reverse the pattern; then cast over twice; knit one and take two five times. keywords: knit; plain; row; rows; stitches; thread cache: 35582.txt plain text: 35582.txt item: #36 of 61 id: 36669 author: Riego de la Branchardière, Eléonore title: Knitting, Crochet, and Netting, with Twelve Illustrations date: None words: 13827 flesch: 96 summary: _ 1st row--Knit 2, knit 2 together, make 1, knit 1, make 1, knit 2 together, knit 1, repeat, at end of row knit 1 more. _ 1st row--Knit 2, knit 2 together, make 1, knit 1, make 1, knit 2 together, knit 1, at the end of row knit 1. keywords: 1st row; chain; knit; plain; purl; row; stitches cache: 36669.txt plain text: 36669.txt item: #37 of 61 id: 37447 author: Sutcliffe, John D. title: Hand-Craft: The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes date: None words: 12251 flesch: 87 summary: Then from _e_ to _f_ plane all round to the semicircle indicated by the outer line of Fig. 3 previously described on the end. Text printed in italics and bold face in the original work are | | represented here as _text_ and =text=, respectively; | | * keywords: angles; centre; cut; edge; end; fig; gauge; line; mark; plane; saw cache: 37447.txt plain text: 37447.txt item: #38 of 61 id: 37456 author: Ryder, H. P. title: Cycling and Shooting Knickerbocker Stockings How to Knit Them With Plain and Fancy Turnover Tops date: None words: 6247 flesch: 96 summary: Knit 4 rounds of k 1, p 1 alternately. [Illustration] 1st pattern round.--With red wool, k 4. keywords: dark k; knit cache: 37456.txt plain text: 37456.txt item: #39 of 61 id: 38658 author: Campbell, Mark, active 19th century title: Self-Instructor in the Art of Hair Work, Dressing Hair, Making Curls, Switches, Braids, and Hair Jewelry of Every Description. date: None words: 38786 flesch: 73 summary: [Illustration] Then commence at A, take Nos. 1 and 2, lift across table to B and lay No. 1 outside of No. 4, and No. 2 between Nos. 1 and 2, and bring back Nos. 1 and 2 from B to A, and lay No. 1 outside of No. 4, and No. 2 outside of No. 1 at A; then go to C and take Nos. 1 and 2 and lift over table to D, and lay No. 1 outside of No. 4, and No. 2 between Nos. 1 and 2, and bring back Nos. 1 and 2 from C and lay No. 1 outside of No. 4 and No. 2 outside of No. 1 at C; then go to B and change the same, and so on around the table to the right, braiding alternately ten rounds by each diagram until the braid is finished. [Illustration] Then commence at A, take Nos. 1 and 2, lift across table to B and lay No. 1 outside of No. 4, and No. 2 between Nos. 1 and 2, and bring back Nos. 1 and 2 from B to A, and lay No. 1 outside of No. 4, and No. 2 outside of No. 1 at A; then go to C and take Nos. 1 and 2 and lift over table to D, and lay No. 1 outside of No. 4, and No. 2 between Nos. 1 and 2, and bring back Nos. 1 and 2 from C and lay No. 1 outside of No. 4 and No. 2 outside of No. 1 at C; then go to B and change the same, and so on around the table to the right, braiding alternately ten rounds by each diagram until the braid is finished. keywords: braid; change; change nos; commence; lift nos; nos; place; right; strands; table; wire cache: 38658.txt plain text: 38658.txt item: #40 of 61 id: 39773 author: Hoyer, Mary title: Juvenile Styles: Original Designs for Infants and Juveniles, Volume 4 date: None words: 23445 flesch: 96 summary: Inc in first and last st on K rows, until you have 18 sts. Work 1½ inches from beginning of border, then inc 1 st at end of K rows, 2 times at underarm, then cast on 4 sts at underarm. keywords: 1 st; k row; rows; sts; sts tog; work cache: 39773.txt plain text: 39773.txt item: #41 of 61 id: 41268 author: Moore, Harris W. title: Manual Training Toys for the Boy's Workshop date: None words: 22736 flesch: 89 summary: First drill small holes at each end of the diamond, then bore other holes as large as will go within the diamond, Plate 9. For ease in making small holes, a _hand-drill_ is essential. keywords: axle; bore; center; edge; end; ends; glue; hole; nail; page; piece; plate; saw; straight; string; wheel; wood cache: 41268.txt plain text: 41268.txt item: #42 of 61 id: 41668 author: None title: Rustic Carpentry date: None words: 25946 flesch: 86 summary: 130.--Elevated Bridge 95 131.--Girder and Post bolted to Sleeper 96 132.--Elevated Foot-bridge at Lower Step (Fig. 130) 96 133, 134.--Verandah 99, 101 135.--Bottom of Post for Glazed Verandah 103 136.--Top of Post for Glazed Verandah 103 137, 138.--Rustic Tool House 106, 107 139.--Common Method of Using Slabs 108 140.--Ground Plan of Rustic Tool House 109 141.--Cap of Tool House Pilaster 111 In jointing round sticks together, the joints may be mitred by notching a =V=-shaped piece out of one stick and cutting the other to fit (Fig. 5); or a mortise and tenon, as represented by Fig. 6, may be used. keywords: diameter; ends; fig; figs; garden; house; illustration; pieces; posts; rafters; rails; roof; seat; section; stuff; summer; wall; wood; work cache: 41668.txt plain text: 41668.txt item: #43 of 61 id: 41749 author: Wall, William E. (William Edmund) title: Practical Graining, with Description of Colors Employed and Tools Used date: None words: 20108 flesch: 76 summary: The graining color; imitating simple woods; graining color for light oak; mixing graining color; applying the color; representing champs or lights of oak 9 CHAPTER III. Quartered oak; overgraining; heart of oak; use of the check roller 13 CHAPTER IV. In imitating carved work, mouldings, etc. in graining color, more than ordinary ability is required in order to succeed in deceiving people; and this kind of work should not be attempted unless there is ample time for its proper execution, nor should its use be contemplated for too exposed positions, as if not thoroughly done it is an eyesore to the intelligent beholder, but if done in a recessed doorway or other suitable place, inside or outside, it enhances the value of the work if it agrees with the general style of the architecture or of the surroundings. keywords: ash; color; graining; ground; illustration; light; maple; oak; oil; oil color; use; walnut; water; wood; work cache: 41749.txt plain text: 41749.txt item: #44 of 61 id: 41851 author: Rose, Augustus F. (Augustus Foster) title: Copper Work: A Text Book for Teachers and Students in the Manual Arts date: None words: 12305 flesch: 83 summary: Some may not be fortunate enough to get a full equipment so that all of the various kinds of metal work may be done, but such may be able to make a beginning by doing light work in saw piercing, which requires a very limited equipment. EQUIPMENT. Enamel may be applied to metal objects and add a great deal to their value and attractiveness if used sparingly. keywords: box; copper; design; figure; hammer; illustration; metal; piece; plate; shape; work cache: 41851.txt plain text: 41851.txt item: #45 of 61 id: 42278 author: Adams, Morley title: Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends date: None words: 16610 flesch: 86 summary: For ammunition all you need is an unlimited number of little pieces of cardboard, folded in two. Legs and arms can be added, fixed into place with dabs of sealing wax; clothes can be devised; and grotesque little toys improvised--toys suitable for the decoration of the Christmas tree or sale at bazaars, &c. keywords: base; box; cardboard; centre; cut; end; fig; glue; hole; illustration; match; means; piece; toy; wheel; wood cache: 42278.txt plain text: 42278.txt item: #46 of 61 id: 42650 author: Hall, A. Neely (Albert Neely) title: The Boy Craftsman Practical and Profitable Ideas for a Boy's Leisure Hours date: None words: 81736 flesch: 82 summary: To connect the points it is necessary to have a straight-edge--a steel framing-square (Fig. 42) for large boards and a small try-square (Fig. 38) for smaller pieces--and a pencil or knife. In the same way longer boards may be divided up by using two-and three-inch divisions on the rule instead of one-inch, and smaller pieces by using half-and quarter-inch divisions. keywords: boards; box; boy; boys; cabin; cardboard; centre; chapter; cut; cutting; doll; door; drawing; edge; end; ends; fasten; fastened; feet; fig; figs; form; frame; half; hand; head; holes; house; illustration; inches; inside; line; making; means; nail; number; opening; paper; piece; place; roof; room; set; sides; size; stick; strips; type; window; wood; work cache: 42650.txt plain text: 42650.txt item: #47 of 61 id: 43166 author: Anonymous title: Shaving Made Easy: What the Man Who Shaves Ought to Know date: None words: 8139 flesch: 79 summary: razor if rightly used, will last for years, and will be a source of continual pleasure when used, whereas a _poor_ razor will do inferior work, irritate the skin and make the face sore, and be a continual source of trouble and annoyance. keywords: blade; edge; face; razor; shave; shaving; strop cache: 43166.txt plain text: 43166.txt item: #48 of 61 id: 43500 author: Maire, F. (Frederick) title: Graining and Marbling A Series of Practical Treatises on Material, Tools and Appliances Used; General Operations; Preparing Oil Graining Colors; Mixing; Rubbing; Applying Distemper Colors; Wiping Out; Penciling; The Use of Crayons; Review of Woods; The Graining of Oak, Ash, Cherry, Satinwood, Mahogany, Maple, Bird's Eye Maple, Sycamore, Walnut, Etc.; Marbling in All Shades. date: None words: 23424 flesch: 75 summary: What is said regarding the imitation of granites, porphyries and jaspers? FINIS. INDEX Agate marbling--how done 145 Applying the rubbing in colors in graining 50 Ash graining--general remarks on 93 Ash graining--how grounds are made for 93 Ash graining--how grained in distemper 95 Ash graining--how grained in oil 94 Ash graining--how overgrained 95 Ash graining--Hungarian--how grained 96 Badger haired blenders--their uses 28 Bird's-eye maple--how grained 101 Black and gold marble--how imitated 145 Black veined white marble--how imitated 150 Blending distemper graining 62 Brocatello marble--how imitated 145 Brushes used for laying grounds 25 Brushes used rubbing-in color 25 Burled growth of woods 75 Burled Walnut--how to grain 122 Burled Walnut--how to overgrain 123 Camel's hair pencils used in graining and marbling 30 Champs--how wiped in quartered oak graining 41 Check rollers--how to use 53 Chestnut graining--general remarks on 156 Chestnut graining--how to grain it 157 Cherry graining--how to prepare grounds for 109 Cherry graining--how to grain it 109 Colored crayons--used in fine veinings 71 Colors used in preparing grounds in graining 21 Colors used in graining in distemper 22 Colors used in graining in oil 23 Combination oil and distemper work in oak graining 36 Curled maple--how grained 100 Davis rubber rollers used in graining 32 Description of material used in graining 23 Dove marble--how imitated 147 Egyptian green marble--how done 149 Fan overgrainers--their uses 28 Flakes--how wiped in quartered oak graining 85 Florence marble--how imitated 148 General remarks on Ash graining 92 General remarks on Bird's-eye maple graining 100 General remarks on Chestnut graining 97 General remarks on Cherry graining 109 General remarks on Burled Walnut graining 122 General remarks on graining operations 38 General remarks on preparing grounds 41 General remarks on preparing megilps 43 General remarks on preparing graining grounds 41 General remarks on preparing graining colors 43 General remarks on Mahogany imitation 112 General remarks on Maple (plain) imitation 98 General remarks on marbles, imitation 130 General remarks on Oak graining 79 General remarks on Quartered Oak graining 84 General remarks on Rosewood graining 133 General remarks on Satinwood graining 110 General remarks on Sycamore graining 104 General remarks on making tints 42 General remarks on tools used in graining 31 Glycerine--to retard drying of distemper colors 48 Graining colors for oak 80 Granites--how imitated 160 How to do the combing in distemper 58 How to do the combing in oil 58 How to blend distemper work 62 How to do the wiping with rags 57 How to grain Ash 93 How to grain Ash (Hungarian) 95 How to grain Bird's-eye Maple 99 How to grain Curled Maple 99 How to grain Cherry 100 How to grain Chestnut 97 How to grain Mahogany 112 How to grain Maple (plain) 96 How to grain Rosewood 127 How to grain Walnut 116 How to grain Walnut (curled) 118 How to grain Satinwood 113 How to grain Sycamore 108 How to marble Egyptian green marble 148 How to marble Florentine marble 152 How to marble Italian pink marble 150 How to marble Italian scarlet marble 150 How to marble Sienna marble 150 How to marble Serpentine marble 145 How to marble Tennessee marble 153 How to marble Verd antique marble 156 How to marble white veined and black veined marbles 157 How to imitate Onyxes 158 How to imitate Granites 160 How to imitate Jaspers 160 How to imitate Porphyries 160 How to use the Davis graining rollers 65 How to use the Ridgely graining tools 65 How to use the colored crayons 72 How to use the wax in finishing 80 Italian pink marble--how imitated 148 Italian scarlet marble--how imitated 148 Jasper--how imitated 160 Mahogany--how to prepare ground for 109 Mahogany--how to grain 112 Mahogany--how to make the featherings 115 Maple, plain--how to prepare the ground 99 Maple, plain--how to grain 99 Maple, bird's-eye--how to grain 101 Maple, bird's-eye--how to put in the eyes 104 Marbling--general remarks on 130 Marbling--imitation of agate 145 Marbling--imitation of black and gold marble 146 Marbling--imitation of Brocatello marble 147 Marbling--imitation of Dove marble 148 Marbling--imitation of Egyptian green marble 148 Marbling--imitation of Florence marble 152 Marbling--imitation of Italian pink marble 150 Marbling--imitation of Italian scarlet marble 150 Marbling--imitation of Serpentine marble 152 Marbling--imitation of Tennessee marble 153 Marbling--imitation of Verd antique marble 156 Marbling--imitation of white and black veined marble 157 Marbling--imitation of Onyxes 158 Marbling--imitation of Granites 160 Marbling--imitation of Porphyries 160 Marbling--imitation of Jaspers 160 Material used in graining 21 Mottlers--their uses 29 Mottling--how done in distemper 73 Oak graining--general remarks on 79 Oak graining--how to grain 84 Oak graining--how overgrained 86 Onyxes--how to imitate 160 Old varnished work--how to treat it for graining 41 Old woodwork--how to treat for graining 40 Overgraining--the use made of it 62 Overgraining--how to use the four overgrainers 63 Pencilling the veining in distemper 61 Pencilling the veining--how done 61 Porphyries--how imitated 160 Practice boards--to study graining upon 77 Quarter-sawed Oak--general remarks on 84 Quarter-sawed Oak--grained in distemper 88 Quarter-sawed Oak--how the dark flakes are put on 96 Quarter-sawed Oak--how the checkroller is used 91 Quarter-sawed Oak--how overgrained 91 Quarter-sawed Oak--how wiped out 89 Quarter-sawed Oak--how finished 95 Rags--their use in graining 37 Ridgely rubber graining tools 34 Rosewood graining--general remarks on 126 Rosewood graining--how to make the grounds 127 Rosewood graining--how to grain it 128 Rosewood graining--how to overgrain it 129 Rubber graining rollers (Davis) 32 Rubber graining combs 35 Rubbing in color in oil in graining 49 Rubbing in color--how applied 52 Satinwood--how grained 100 Serpentine marble--how imitated 146 Sienna marble--how imitated 150 Stippler--its use in graining 27 Stippling--for walnut--how done 119 Stippling--general rules for 55-75 Sponges--their use in distemper 74 Steel graining combs 35 Varnish brushes used in graining 30 Varnishing--how it should be done 81-87 Verd antique marble--how imitated 156 Walnut graining--general remarks on 116 Walnut graining--grounds for 118 Walnut graining--how to stipple for 119 Walnut graining--how grained in oil and distemper 120 Walnut graining--how overgrained 121 Wax used in preparing megilp 22 Wax polish--how applied 82 Whiting--its uses in preparing megilps 23 White veined marble--how imitated 149 Wiping out--what it means 56 Wiping out--how done 57 Woods--how classed 83 * * Beeswax is also used in preparing graining colors used in oil graining. keywords: color; distemper; graining; ground; lesson; maple; marble; marbling; oak; oil; use; veining; walnut; white; wood; work cache: 43500.txt plain text: 43500.txt item: #49 of 61 id: 43574 author: Foster, Edwin W. title: Carpentry and Woodwork date: None words: 95623 flesch: 83 summary: In buying 1/2-inch dressed lumber, very often inch boards are dressed down to the required thickness, and the purchaser pays for 1-inch wood, in addition to the dressing. To take a theoretical case: How much wood in a solid circular log of uniform diameter, 16 inches in diameter, 13 feet and 9 inches long? Find the area of a 16-inch circle in square inches, multiply by length in inches and divide by 144. 16 Ã� 16 Ã� .7854 keywords: board; box; boys; brads; case; centre; construction; cut; cutting; design; drawing; edge; end; ends; feet; fig; flat; form; frame; glue; hand; harry; hole; illustration; inch; inch wood; inches; joint; knife; legs; length; lines; making; method; paper; piece; pine; place; ralph; sand; saw; screws; sides; size; square; surface; time; tool; tree; use; way; white; wood; work cache: 43574.txt plain text: 43574.txt item: #50 of 61 id: 43604 author: Wheeler, Charles G. (Charles Gardner) title: Wood-working for Beginners: A Manual for Amateurs date: None words: 159655 flesch: 83 summary: _Dry rot_, which is due to fungi, does not attack _dry_ wood, but is found where there is dampness and lack of free circulation of air, as in warm, damp, and unventilated situations, like cellars and the more confined parts of ships, and in time results in the entire crumbling away of the wood. Plane bevels in end wood from both edges and you can often slant the plane to good advantage like the chisel in Fig. 479. keywords: beginning; bench; board; boat; box; case; chisel; course; cut; cutting; edge; end; ends; finishing; fit; form; frame; glue; good; grain; hand; hard; hold; holes; house; illustration fig; inside; iron; joint; knife; line; look; making; mark; nail; outside; paint; piece; plane; right; rule; saw; screws; set; shape; sides; square; stock; straight; surface; time; tools; use; water; way; wood; work cache: 43604.txt plain text: 43604.txt item: #51 of 61 id: 43635 author: Petersen, Louis Christian title: Educational Toys Consisting Chiefly of Coping-Saw Problems for Children in School and the Home date: None words: 15245 flesch: 87 summary: The head, tail and body pieces, one with and one without the leg, are sawed from 1/4, the back (E) from 5/16, the wedge from 3/8, and the clamp from 1/2 stock. See Transcriber's Notes at end of document for more details.] ------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATIONAL TOYS Consisting Chiefly of Coping-Saw Problems for Children in the School and the Home by LOUIS C. PETERSEN, B. Sc. Director of Manual Arts, State Normal University, Carbondale, Illinois [Illustration] PUBLISHED BY THE MANUAL ARTS PRESS PEORIA, ILLINOIS COPYRIGHT LOUIS C. PETERSEN 1920 CONTENTS _ keywords: body; color; end; ends; fig; holes; illustration; legs; nails; parts; piece; platform; saw; stock; wheels; wood cache: 43635.txt plain text: 43635.txt item: #52 of 61 id: 43720 author: White, Mary title: The Child's Rainy Day Book date: None words: 35042 flesch: 86 summary: Other pieces of the same size are cut from red, yellow and green gingham--three of each colour. Grog is baked clay pounded into small pieces--an old flower pot will do if you are using flower-pot clay. keywords: beads; clay; cut; edge; end; fig; half; illustration; inches; left; materials; needle; paper; piece; raffia; rattan; required:=; right; silk; string; thread; way; white cache: 43720.txt plain text: 43720.txt item: #53 of 61 id: 44585 author: None title: The Boy Mechanic, Book 2: 1000 Things for Boys to Do date: None words: 250074 flesch: 77 summary: [Illustration: Two Fine Hair Lines must be Scratched on Each Plate Before It is Used to Plot From, or to Make Pictures from Which the Plotting is Done] Once the triangle has been laid out, the fieldwork is very simple. [Illustration: A Vise Screw Formed of an Ordinary Lag Screw, the Threads being Made Square and a Handle Attached (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3)] A Medicine-Spoon Holder When a dropper is not at hand it is difficult to drop medicine in a spoon while holding it, and the shape of the spoon will not permit its being set down. keywords: air; base; bent; block; board; bolt; bottle; box; brass; camera; case; center; circuit; cloth; coil; consists; construction; cork; corner; cover; current; cut; cutting; device; diameter; direction; disk; distance; door; drill; dry; edge; electric; end; end pieces; ends; field; fig; film; fit; fly; following; follows; form; frame; gas; glass; ground; hand; handle; head; heavy; hold; holder; hole; homemade; illustration; inside; iron; lamp; leather; length; level; light; line; little; long; machine; makes; making; manner; material; means; metal; method; nail; needle; number; opening; outside; paper; parts; pencil; picture; piece; pin; pipe; place; point; pole; position; post; pressure; prevent; procure; proper; rod; rubber; run; screw; set; shaft; shape; sheet; sides; simple; size; sketch; small; solution; spring; square; steel; stick; strip; surface; table; thick; time; tin; tube; turn; upper; use; water; way; wheel; winding; window; wire; wood; work cache: 44585.txt plain text: 44585.txt item: #54 of 61 id: 44766 author: Archer, Effie Archer title: The Library of Work and Play: Needlecraft date: None words: 68650 flesch: 87 summary: Thread your needle with sewing cotton or silk the colour of the braid and sew it down with little running stitches and an occasional back-stitch to fasten it firmly. Chain stitch (ch) (Figure No. 227) 3. keywords: braid; centre; chain; cotton; crochet; cut; design; edge; end; fig; figure; half; hand; hem; illustration; inch; inches; left; line; long; loop; material; needle; piece; right; row; rows; space; stitch; stitches; thread; turn; way; white; work cache: 44766.txt plain text: 44766.txt item: #55 of 61 id: 45004 author: Sleffel, Charles Conrad title: The Library of Work and Play: Working in Metals date: None words: 70594 flesch: 94 summary: The filing, finishing, and polishing must be done as with other copper pieces. Copper pieces, 8 × 1 in. keywords: bend; centre; chisel; copper; cut; design; draw; drawing; end; ends; file; fire; fit; hammer; heat; hole; hot; illustration; ins; iron; metal; piece; place; round; shape; silver; solder; square; steel; tool; way; work cache: 45004.txt plain text: 45004.txt item: #56 of 61 id: 45079 author: Pickert, Charles title: The Art of Graining: How Acquired and How Produced. With the description of colors and their applications. date: None words: 4845 flesch: 66 summary: In applying this color have it very thin, as in other grainings, and as chestnut is a plain wood, presenting a great uniformity of color in itself, great care must be taken to avoid any material change in the appearance of the graining by any heavy shades. The same rules as to graining black walnut--darkening the centre a little, and having the grains lose themselves at the sides or ends--are applicable in the graining of ash, and the same tools should also be used in the graining of this wood as are used in that of black walnut; the hand should run the same as in graining walnut, and the grains should run with equal regularity. keywords: graining; illustration; oak; work cache: 45079.txt plain text: 45079.txt item: #57 of 61 id: 45632 author: Various title: Beehive for Bairns, Vol. 2: From 1st Size to 2 Years With Special Supplement: Bed Jackets date: None words: 61575 flesch: 102 summary: =Next row:= (eyelets) *K2. =Next row:= (K2tog.) keywords: = 1st; = 2nd; =( =; cast; continue; end; fwd; ins; k2tog; knit; needle; pattern; purl; repeat; row:= k1; rows; sts; times; work cache: 45632.txt plain text: 45632.txt item: #58 of 61 id: 46445 author: Boone, Cheshire Lowton title: The Library of Work and Play: Guide and Index date: None words: 61618 flesch: 56 summary: _See_ Saws Bandy (Game), K 332 Bantams breeding and care, A 217-218 game bantams, A 217 Bar, Horizontal making a pull up bar, C 270* Bar pins silver metal work, M 171-174* Barberry characteristics, G 355 picking, A 16-17 jelly, receipt, A 17, 18 Barometer complex, how to make, B 258-261* construction of, B 231-232* inventors of, B 256 purpose of, B 261 simple, how to make, B 256-257 theory of, B 256 water barometer, how to make, B 257-258* Base ball, K 244-266*, 332-334 art of playing, K 262-263 balls, standard, K 262 base hit, K 333 bases, K 333 bats, K 262 batsmen left-handed, K 259 qualifications, K 260 training, K 250 batting, K 260 captain's duties, K 249-250 catcher, K 254-255 diamond, K 333 laying out, K 260-262* doubtful balls, providing for, K 258 fan, K 266 first baseman, K 255 gate receipts, K 264 ground rules, K 265 home run, K 333 innings, K 334 choice of, by contesting team, K 264 manager's duties, K 249 methods, old and modern, K 247-248 national game of America, K 244 nine, K 245, 332 opponent's methods, learning, K 259 outfielder, K 257-259 pitcher and pitching, K 246*, 247*, 251-254 positions, K 245, 333 scores, K 264, 333-334 second baseman, K 256 shoes, K 264 short-stop, K 256 signals, K 248 team, how to organize, K 249 third base, K 257 training rules, K 250 two-bagger, K 334 umpire, K 245 uniforms, K 263 visiting teams, expenses, K 264 what makes a game, K 264 Basket ball rules, K 334 Basket making materials for, N 242-243 porcupine quills for, A 69 raffia work, N 250-252, 255-261* rattan basketry, N 243-248* reed flower baskets, G 61-64* sweet grass baskets, A 64 Bass bait for, K 135 Basse-taille definition, M 208 Basswood characteristics, C 560 Basting meat, H 283, 357 Basting stitches, N 6* Bath tubs cleaning, H 155 sanitation, H 217 Bathroom care and cleaning, H 155-156 Baths electric shower baths in a summer camp, E 244-247 summer camp device, E 160-162 Bats usefulness of, K 149 Batteries, Electric. _See_ Electric lamps, Incandescent Inclined plane principle of, B 52-62* rule for power, B 64 Income allowances, management of, H 80 gifts, provisions for, H 81 how to divide for family needs, H 72-85 increasing, ways to avoid, H 73 management of, H 70-86 savings from, H 82 uncertain, management of, H 71 Incubators, K 197-199 electric, E 114 temperature regulator, E 124* Indian bracelet making, M 176-177* Indian proverb about home making, H 44 Indian's plume (Bee balm), G 333, 347 Induction (Electricity) current induced by interrupting the circuit, E 184 by moving the magnet, E 17-18 direction of induced currents, E 186 experiments, E 349-352 human voice as interrupter, E 282-283 piano strings as interrupter, E 281 telephone induction coil, E 279-281* tuning fork as an interrupter, E 280 wireless spark coil, E 321-322* Ink stains removing, H 359 Ink well holder copper work, M 117-121* gouge work, C 261-263* Inky caps, mushrooms, A 90 Inlaying, metal, M 362 Inlaying, wood, C 319-331* borders, designs and making, C 324-328* buhlwork, C 329 building up designs, C 320-322*, 323*, 329* checkerboard, design and making, C 326-327* curved designs, C 328 gluing process, C 323 marquetry work, C 328 placing the design, C 324 thickness of veneer, C 319 woods suitable for, C 319 Inoculation of soil, G 119 Insect pests, G 280-295, K 167-168, H 361-364 ants, G 283 asparagus beetle, remedy, G 287 bean anthracnose, G 288 bed bugs, H 363-364 book about, A 519 cabbage worm, G 125, 288 caterpillars, G 282, 285, 287, 290 cauliflower lice and maggots, G 289 celery caterpillar, G 287, 290 chestnut weevil, A 33 chicken lice, A 148, 149 cockroaches, H 362 cut worms, G 284, 292, 293 destruction of, by birds and toads, A 455-457, G 280-281 detecting, G 283-284 eggplants, G 305 gnawing class, remedy, G 281-282 grasshoppers, G 282 hornworm, G 292 house plant pests, G 199 household pests, H 361-364 leaf-hopper, G 293 moths, prevention and extermination of, H 362 plant lice, G 284, 291, 293 potato bug, G 287, 292 red spider, G 293 rose slug, G 284, 293 slugs, G 117, 284, 285, 293 squash bug, G 287, 291, 292 striped beetle, G 117, 285, 287, 292 sucking class, G 282 tomato worm, G 286 water bugs, H 362 _ keywords: age; animals; badge; ball; book; box; boy; boys; building; business; camp; care; characteristics; child; children; class; cleaning; clothes; color; construction; cooking; copper; cutting; decoration; definition; design; drawing; electric; embroidery; fire; flowers; food; forging; furniture; game; garden; gardening; germination; girl; good; hand; home; house; illustration; insect; iron; joints; kind; life; light; making; materials; metal; nature; oak; outdoor; pests; plant; planting; play; poultry; power; principle; process; purpose; qualifications; raising; room; school; seed; setting; silver; simple; soil; sowing; steel; stitch; table; taste; things; time; tools; training; trees; uses; value; varieties; versus; washing; water; white; wild; wood; work cache: 46445.txt plain text: 46445.txt item: #59 of 61 id: 57273 author: Cupples, George, Mrs. title: The Stocking-Knitter's Manual: A Handy Book for the Work-Table date: None words: 8217 flesch: 93 summary: =The Leg.=--The shaping of this part of the stocking is effected by means of 'intakes,' which are made by slipping off the 3d stitch on the right hand side of the seam-stitch without knitting it; then knit the next stitch, and take the slipped stitch over it; knit the next. =Dutch Heel.=--Slip the 5th stitch on the left side of the seam, knit the 6th, and take the slipped stitch over; turn back, and pearl the 5th and 6th together, at the other side. keywords: foot; inches; intakes; pearl; plain; rounds; stitches cache: 57273.txt plain text: 57273.txt item: #60 of 61 id: 57562 author: Jennings, Arthur Seymour title: Painting by Immersion and by Compressed Air: A Practical Handbook date: None words: 59395 flesch: 69 summary: Moisture charged air has a bad effect upon paint work. The difference between a dipping paint and spray paint is in the consistency. keywords: aeron; air; airostyle; apparatus; articles; black; brush; case; co.; coat; colour; dipping; drying; enamel; fig; finish; finishing; form; gas; illustration; iron; ltd; machine; material; means; metal; method; motor; oil; oxide; paint; paint dipping; painting; parts; plant; pressure; process; purpose; sprayer; spraying; steel; surface; system; tank; time; type; use; varnish; water; white; work cache: 57562.txt plain text: 57562.txt item: #61 of 61 id: 62444 author: Gardner, Henry A. (Henry Alfred) title: The Preservation of the Exterior of Wooden Buildings date: None words: 3622 flesch: 56 summary: Tinted paints possess greater hiding power than white paints, and the above proportions would be somewhat changed for a tinted paint containing any percentage of coloring material. Tinted paints are, moreover, far more serviceable than white paints, as will be shown later. keywords: lead; oil; paint; pigments; use; white; zinc cache: 62444.txt plain text: 62444.txt