item: #1 of 9 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: #2 of 9 id: 36007 author: Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) title: Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship date: None words: 59381 flesch: 86 summary: Any way, I used up the piece of cloth making dolls and cats and dogs. I'll trust old Roger not to pay compliments, responded James. keywords: afternoon; blue; boys; brown; children; christmas; club; cotton; cut; day; della; dicky; dorothy; ethel; ethel blue; ethel brown; father; frã¤ulein; girls; good; helen; home; house; idea; james; mademoiselle; making; margaret; morton; mother; mrs; need; new; orphans; paper; people; point; right; roger; school; ship; things; thought; time; tom; war; way; work cache: 36007.txt plain text: 36007.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 41669 author: Hall, A. Neely (Albert Neely) title: Home-made Toys for Girls and Boys Wooden and Cardboard Toys, Mechanical and Electric Toys date: None words: 46435 flesch: 88 summary: Bore a hole through the back of the building for the cable cord _L_ to run through (_P_, Figs. 97 and 100), and cut another through the smoke-stack. Cut strips _P_ and _Q_ 12 inches long and _R_ 10 inches long, and trim off the upper ends of _P_ and _Q_ so when they are nailed together the lower ends will be 8 inches apart; nail strip _R_ to the lower ends of _P_ and _Q_ (Fig. 150). keywords: box; cardboard; center; chapter; cigar; cut; doll; end; ends; fig; figs; glue; hole; home; illustration; inches; motor; nail; paper; piece; place; round; shaft; sides; spool; stick; strips; toy; water; wheel; wire cache: 41669.txt plain text: 41669.txt item: #4 of 9 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: #5 of 9 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: #6 of 9 id: 44750 author: Warner, Charles Franklin title: The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration date: None words: 70337 flesch: 71 summary: Good design in library tables calls for ample size. The table and chairs are for a definite purpose and this should show itself in good design. keywords: block; care; case; clay; colour; corners; cut; decoration; design; drawing; edges; end; finish; finishing; form; furniture; good; hand; house; illustration; inches; leather; light; lines; making; materials; means; oak; order; paper; parts; pattern; picture; pieces; plain; problem; process; room; set; size; stock; surface; table; time; use; warp; water; weaving; white; wood; work cache: 44750.txt plain text: 44750.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 45775 author: Polkinghorne, M. I. R. (Mabel Irene Rutherford) title: Toy-Making in School and Home date: None words: 69926 flesch: 89 summary: Now make holes, D, in the front legs, and nail them to the body so that holes D are on a level with the axle C. Make a hole through the body A, midway between the front legs, through which the string, E, will pass. Cut part of the cover of a match-box as in =Fig. 131= to form the back of the sledge, B. Gum a brown-paper hood round this. keywords: axle; b c; box; c d; cardboard; chapter; children; cork; cut; end; ends; fig; fold; form; glue; gum; half; holes; illustration; inches; length; making; match; paper; piece; roof; round; saw; sides; size; square; strips; stripwood; toy; toys; way; wheels; wire; wood; work cache: 45775.txt plain text: 45775.txt item: #8 of 9 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: #9 of 9 id: 47760 author: None title: Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do date: None words: 128105 flesch: 79 summary: $Shadow Buff.$--A sheet or other large piece of white linen should be fastened at one end of the room, so that it hangs without wrinkles; Buff seats himself on a low stool with his face to the sheet, and a table, on which is a lighted candle, should be placed about four or five feet behind him, and the rest of the lights in the room extinguished. Next take a cane or other piece of light flexible wood, and bind the centre of it tightly at the point G an inch below A. Bend the cane into a semi-circle and connect C and D with string. keywords: = =; air; ball; bar; black; board; boat; body; box; boy; boys; candle; canoe; card; case; centre; club; colour; course; cross; cut; day; distance; draw; edge; end; feet; fig; fish; flame; following; food; foot; form; game; glass; good; half; hand; having; head; hole; illustration; inches; king; leaves; left; legs; length; line; making; man; means; men; need; open; paper; parts; pass; piece; place; play; player; point; position; right; room; round; run; set; size; small; square; table; time; turn; use; water; way; white; wood; work cache: 47760.txt plain text: 47760.txt