The scrap book, Volume 2, No. 2
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BY GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow’s mite, that it is not every one that asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer. Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, and obtains more credit, than lace and embroidery, in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.— From a Letter to His Nephew, Bushrod Washington, 1783.
Lady Ward Discusses Female Suffrage in New Zealand—C. F. Birdseye Shows That the Scope of College Fraternities is Widening—Professor Borgerhoff Points Out Merits of Esperanto—Mormon Elder Says It Costs $1,500 to Save a Soul—President Faunce Believes Public Schools Will Supply Antidote for War—Dr. Louis Elkino Writes of German Methods in Fight for Commercial Supremacy—Bernard Shaw Says Americans Are Children in Business—Queen Margherita on Race Suicide—Charles F. Pidgin Finds Boston a Big Debtor—Lord Roberts Wants Rifle-Shooting Made a National Sport.
Compiled and edited for The Scrap Book.
Even Maori Women Vote, But Only Men Hold Office—Lack of Servants Keeps Fair Sex Home.
What about woman in New Zealand? We are arguing for and against woman suffrage in the United States with almost as much theory and as little practical knowledge of the proposed conditions as was the case thirty years ago. Some of us are positive in the conviction that the right to vote would unsex the sex—would harden motherhood and sisterhood into a sedulous mannishness.
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THE SCRAP BOOK
HOW TO LIVE WELL.
The Latest Viewpoints of Men Worth While
HOW FEMALE SUFFRAGE WORKS IN NEW ZEALAND.
WIDENING SCOPE OF COLLEGE FRATERNITIES.
THE LATEST IDEA OF A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.
THE CASH COST OF CONVERTING A SOUL.
EDUCATION PRESCRIBED AS ANTIDOTE FOR WAR.
GERMANY’S FIGHT FOR COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY.
“AMERICANS PERFECT CHILDREN IN BUSINESS.”
QUEEN MARGHERITA ON THE SPHERE OF WOMAN.
BIG BURDEN OF DEBT CARRIED BY BOSTONIANS.
WANTS RIFLE-SHOOTING MADE NATIONAL SPORT.
What the Big Newspaper Writers Are Saying
RELATIONS OF A MAN’S STATURE AND GENIUS.
AMERICAN TRADITIONS AND THE ICONOCLASTS.
TIME IS RIPE FOR SALOON’S SUBSTITUTE.
HOW LAW APPRAISES THE LIFE OF A MAN.
DOES HATE INCREASE EFFICIENCY OF ARMIES?
EARLY RISERS PUT ON THE DEFENSIVE.
MANUAL LABOR IS MAKING NEW CONVERTS.
A SHINING MODEL FOR PHILANTHROPISTS.
WHEN THE RICH MAN MARRIES A POOR GIRL
DOES A STEPMOTHER MAKE A GOOD MOTHER?
AMERICAN STOMACHS AS STRONG AS OF OLD.
LOVE IN A COTTAGE.
Exhumations of Noted Persons.
Dead Pope on Trial.
Cromwell’s Body Hanged.
Wyclif’s Bones Burned.
Queen’s Skeleton Crowned.
Reburial of Napoleon.
Body of André Disinterred.
Corpse of Paul Jones Identified.
Pope’s Skull in Museum.
At Charlemagne’s Tomb.
Removed Emperor’s Shrouds.
Voltaire and Rousseau.
Edward the Confessor.
Identifying Dead Kings.
French Royal Tombs Robbed.
St. Swithin’s Troubled Rest.
THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
IRON IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES.
The Harp of a Thousand Strings.
The Effects of Music on Animals.
Mozart and His Pigeon.
Cats Have Musical Ears.
A Feline Paderewski.
A Dancing Cow.
Violin Charms a Snake.
Dogs Are Discriminating.
A Tuneful Terrier.
Appreciative Mice.
The Discovery of America.
ORIGIN OF POPULAR GAMES.
A NATION WITHOUT A LANGUAGE.
Three, Seven, and Thirteen.
Divides Things Into Three Parts.
The Holiness of Seven.
Seven Men Who Did Wonders In Chivalry.
How the Old Alchemists Relied on Seven.
The Origin of “Unlucky Thirteen.”
THE STORY OF THE KILKENNY CATS.
DEAR HANDS.
FROM THE COUNTRY PRESS.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
ROUGH ON THE COLT.
THEIR EQUIPMENT.
LOST AND WON AD.
A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.
A SEQUATCHIE MYSTERY.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
THE WORM TURNS.
THE KIND OF DOG IT WAS.
Van Nesten and the Burglar.
ORIGIN OF “THE MARSEILLAISE.”
THE LAKE OF THE DISMAL SWAMP.
OLD-TIME LIVING EXPENSES.
The Story of Anthracite.
WHY MARCH 4TH IS INAUGURATION DAY.
NEW NAMES BROUGHT LUCK.
WOULDN’T STAY CURED.
DANCED ON CHURCH STEPS.
THE ROMANCE OF HALLOWE’EN.
Origin of the Feast.
Prying into the Future.
Kindling the Hallow Fire.
A Collector’s Bequest.
A LETTER FROM CHRIST.
ABGAR TO JESUS CHRIST.
JESUS CHRIST TO ABGAR.
Valuable Secrets Lost to Men.
Art of Egyptian Embalmers.
French Paste Diamonds.
Wonderful Ancient Dyes.
Formula for Durable Ink.
THE WORLD’S HARVEST SEASONS.
AS SEEN BY THE DREAMER.
THE CRY OF THE DREAMER.
GIVE ME MY DREAMS.
THE PORT O’ DREAMS.
THE DREAMER.
WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES SIX.
HEART OF THE FIRE.
Major Namby.
THE WORLD’S MOST REMARKABLE STREETS.
EIGHTH DECADE.
FROM THE LIPS OF ANANIAS.
A FISHERMAN’S REVENGE.
FELINE INGENUITY.
AN UNLIMITED EXPRESS.
A STORY IN STONE.
A PEACH PUP.
THE EMERGENCY AND THE MAN.
WHERE TWO CLIMATES MEET.
STRETCHING IT.
? ? ? WHY ? ? ?
DEATH THE LEVELER.
ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
TRADITIONAL TOMB OF MOTHER OF HUMAN RACE.
HOW WE MARK OUR NORTHERN BOUNDARIES.
WHAT IT COSTS FOR ROYALTY TO BE ILL.
BEFORE THE FORK WAS THOUGHT OF.
WHY AN OLD STORY IS CALLED A “CHESTNUT.”
HOW NATURE JOKES WITH HER CHILDREN.
SHORTHAND IS MORE THAN 2,000 YEARS OLD.
DISTANCE WALKED DURING A LIFETIME.
MISNOMERS WHICH ARE COMMONLY USED.
Cooks’ Caps and Coronets.
Chambermaid Became Lady Mayoress.
Lady Hawkins Was a Cook.
Earl Served as Porter.
IN STREET AND GRAND-STAND.
THE OLD HAND-ORGAN.
THE STREET MINSTREL.
A CONFESSION.
THE ORGAN-GRINDER.
PICKLES.
“FR-R-RAISH PEANUTS.”
Relative Power of the World’s Navies.
NIX’S MATE LIGHT IN BOSTON HARBOR.
Achievements of Famous Invalids.
Carlyle, Heine, and Keats.
Mrs. Browning and the Brontës.
Parkman and Prescott.
Famous Musicians and Poets.
Methuselahs Laughed at Doctors.
Remarkable Centenarians.
Sick for One Hundred Years.
Had Many Diseases.
A REQUIEM.
WHAT THEY LAUGH AT ABROAD.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
A WELL REGULATED LIFE.
ON THEIR HONEYMOON.
LOVE OF COUNTRY.
THE CASE AND THE EXCEPTION.
AT THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICE.
AT THE DUMA.
IMPUDENCE.
KEPT HIS PROMISE.
GREAT PRESS OF BUSINESS.
FISHING.
The Bell of Kuang Sai.
HOHENLINDEN.
NEW FRIENDS ON OLD PLATES.
THE NEW FOOD.
THE HEALTH-FOOD MAN.
’TWAS EXCELSIOR.
REMEDIES WORSE THAN DISEASE.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A KISS.
EIGHTH SERIES.
THE BLACKBIRD’S SONG.
LOVE IN FOUR CENTURIES.
SWEET-AND-TWENTY.
GO, LOVELY ROSE.
I PRITHEE SEND ME BACK MY HEART.
TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS.
TO LADY ANNE HAMILTON.
NOT OURS THE VOWS.
THE GRAVE OF LOVE.
MUSIC, WHEN SOFT VOICES DIE.
WHEN STARS ARE IN THE QUIET SKIES.
TO HELEN.
QUEER WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
The Blind Sailor-Explorer.
THE LIGHT OF THE HARVEST MOON.
THE SOWER.
ELEVENTH HOUR PERFORMANCES.
LASSOOED THE COMPLIMENT.
THE MODEST CHORUS MAN.
RECALCITRANT BENEFACTOR.
BETTER THEATER PROGRAMS
CRITICS BAD WEATHERCOCKS.
PLAYHOUSE NOMENCLATURE.
WHAT MAKES A PLAY?
WHO WOULD NOT BE A BOY?
THE BOY.
SONG OF THE MODERN ATONEMENT
ADAM: THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS A BOY.
THE BOY WHO LIVES NEXT DOOR.
FADS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE.
The House and the Brain.
THE SEPTEMBER GALE.
FACTS FOR THE WEATHERWISE.
WEATHER SIGNS.
THE SIROCCO OF ITALY.
WEATHER PROVERBS.
THUNDER IN ENGLAND.
HOW TO USE A BAROMETER.
COWS TELL RAIN.
FIRE AS A BAROMETER.
GOOSE-BONES AND PROPHECIES.
ORIGIN OF COLD WAVES OF AIR.
LIBRA: THE SCALES.
THE ZODIACAL SIGNS.
WHAT FOREIGN JOHN SMITHS ARE CALLED.
MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES.
