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MISCELLANEOUS PUBLIC DOMAIN PRODUCTS
Manners and Social Usages - Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Many of our correspondents ask us to define what is
meant by the terms "good society" and "bad society." They say that they read in
the newspapers of the "good society" in New York and Washington and Newport, and
that it is a record of drunkenness, flirtation, bad manners and gossip,
backbiting, divorce, and slander. They read that the fashionable people at
popular resorts commit all sorts of vulgarities, such as talking aloud at the
opera, and disturbing their neighbors; that young men go to a dinner, get drunk,
and break glasses; and one ingenuous young girl remarks, "We do not call that
good society in Atlanta."
Public Opinion
- Walter Lippmann
In some measure, stimuli from the outside,
especially when they are printed or spoken words, evoke some part of a system of
stereotypes, so that the actual sensation and the preconception occupy
consciousness at the same time. The two are blended, much as if we looked at red
through blue glasses and saw green. If what we are looking at corresponds
successfully with what we anticipated, the stereotype is reinforced for the
future, as it is in a man who knows in advance that the Japanese are cunning and
has the bad luck to run across two dishonest Japanese.
Ventriloquism
- Charles H. Olin
UNLIKE the poet the ventriloquist is not born, but is evolved by
persistent practice. This is contrary to the notion held by many
persons even in these enlightened days, who believe that the
ventriloquist comes into the world with a vocal apparatus differing
from that possessed by humanity in general-in fact, with a " double
throat" by which he is enabled to project his voice into space and
have it explode anywhere at will, much as a dynamite bomb explodes
away from the source from which it is hurled.
In other words, a large part of the
otherwise intelligent public still labor under the delusion that the
ventriloquist is endowed by nature with the power of throwing his
voice wherever and whenever he pleases and causing it mysteriously
to return to him ; and that it is as easy to ventriloquize in the
midst of a crowd or in the street as it is from a theatre stage or
in a large hall where the audience is some distance from the
performer.
If the commonly accepted theory of the vocal bomb were correct, it
would undoubtedly be as easy to ventriloquize in one place as in
another; but, as a matter of fact, there is nothing peculiar about
the formation of the throats of the professors of this art, even of
the most adept, to distinguish them from the rest of humanity, and
as for actual voice throwing-there is no such thing...
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Making
Your Own Telescope
PRIOR TO THE TIME of the telescope, man's view of the celestial
universe was woefully restricted when compared with what now can be
enjoyed on any clear evening with ordinary binoculars. There were
visible to him then only the naked-eye objects, the sun and the
moon, five of the planets, and on a clear night stars down to about
the 6th magnitude, some 2,000 in all.1 A few hazy spots could also
be seen, and there would be an occasional comet. Com-pletely unknown
were the outer planets, satellites of the planets, Saturn's rings,
and infinite numbers of stars and galaxies...
Excerpt from the Story of the
Telescope:
The Galilean Telescope. Very soon, spectacle makers and
scientists up and down Europe, learning of Lippershey's invention,
were making similar instruments. Notable among the scientists was
Galileo Galilei, the great Italian physicist and astronomer, who
fitted a plano-convex and a plano-concave spectacle lens into
opposite ends of a lead tube, making a telescope that magnified
three times (Fig. 1). "They [the objects] appeared three times
nearer and nine times larger in surface than to the naked eye,"
wrote Galileo. He experimented further and improved this erect-ing
telescope as well as was pos-sible with simple lenses, carrying the
magnification up to 30 or more. This was about the limit of its
usefulness, however, on ac-count of the great reduction in the size
of its field of view.
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Let's Collect Rocks & Shells
- Shell Oil Company
After you've had a good day's haul and a rest
(you'll need one) you must clean your shells. Put your tiniest, most fragile
ones in rubbing alcohol. Put the rest in a pot of fresh water and slowly bring
it to a boil. Let them cool in the water slowly to prevent the glossy shells
from cracking. When cool, your bivalves will be gaping open; simply scrape them
clean. Your univalves will be more difficult; remove the animal with a crocket
hook or other piece of bent wire, turning it gently with the spiral; try to get
it out whole to save yourself trouble. Save the univalve's operculum and slice
it off the muscle that holds it. It will preserve indefinitely and is a valuable
part of the shell.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Elinore Pruitt Stewart
The writer of the following letters is a young
woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek
support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to
the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. Later,
seeking to better herself, she accepted employment as a housekeeper for a
well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Stewart, who had taken up a quarter-section in
Wyoming. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in
Denver, tell the story of her new life in the new country. They are genuine
letters, and are printed as written, except for occasional omissions and the
alteration of some of the names.
Letters to a Daughter - Helen Ekin Starrett
How shall a young girl fit herself to enjoy and to
afford enjoyment in general society? Certainly the first requisites are
intelligence, a good knowledge of standard literature, a general knowledge of
the more important events that are taking place in the world, and such a
knowledge of the best current literature as may be obtained from the regular
reading of one or two of the standard monthly magazines.
Little Journeys To The Homes Of Eminent Artists - Elbert
Hubbard
In the lives of Botticelli and Rembrandt there is a
close similarity. In temperament as well as in experience they seem to parallel
each other. In boyhood Botticelli and Rembrandt were dull, perverse, wilful.
Both were given up by teachers and parents as hopelessly handicapped by
stupidity. Botticelli's father, seeing that the boy made no progress at school,
apprenticed him to a metalworker. The lad showed the esteem in which he held his
parent by dropping the family name of Filipepi and assuming the name of
Botticelli, the name of his employer.
My Friends at Brook Farm - John Van Der Zee Sears
Dr. Ripley gained my confidence by claiming old
acquaintance, recalling a former meeting that I had quite forgotten. Several
years previous, when I was a very small boy indeed, my father had taken me with
him on a flying trip from New York to Boston, deciding to do so, I suppose
rather than to leave mother in a strange city with two children on her hands.
During that brief visit Dr. Ripley had taken father to call on an illustrious
artist, and he now recalled the circumstances to my mind. With his prompting I
could remember riding in a carriage; seeing a tall silvery old gentleman wearing
a black velvet robe lined with red, and tasting white grapes for the first time;
but I could not think of the silvery gentleman's name.
My Garden Acquaintance - James Russell Lowell
There is a common notion that animals are better
meteorologists than men, and I have little doubt that in immediate
weather-wisdom they have the advantage of our sophisticated senses (though I
suspect a sailor or shepherd would be their match), but I have seen nothing that
leads me to believe their minds capable of erecting the horoscope of a whole
season, and letting us know beforehand whether the winter will be severe or the
summer rainless.
NEVER AGAIN! - Edward Carpenter
Never again must this Thing happen. The time has
come -- if the human race does not wish to destroy itself in its own madness --
for men to make up their minds as to what they will do in the future; for now
indeed is it true that we are come to the cross-roads, we stand at the Parting
of the Ways.
Notes on Nursing - Florence Nightingale
If I were looking out for an example in order to
show what not to do, I should take the specimen of an ordinary bed in a private
house: a wooden bedstead, two or even three mattresses piled up to above the
height of a table; a vallance attached to the frame?nothing but a miracle could
ever thoroughly dry or air such a bed and bedding. The patient must inevitably
alternate between cold damp after his bed is made, and warm damp before, both
saturated with organic matter[2], and this from the time the mattresses are put
under him till the time they are picked to pieces, if this is ever done.
Making Good On Private Duty - Harriet Camp Lounsbery
Full title: MAKING GOOD ON PRIVATE DUTY PRACTICAL
HINTS TO GRADUATE NURSES.
Little Rivers - Henry van Dyke
But apart from the philosophy of the matter, which
I must confess to passing over very superficially at the time, there were other
and more cogent reasons for wanting to go from Venice to the Big Venetian. It
was the first of July, and the city on the sea was becoming tepid. A slumbrous
haze brooded over canals and palaces and churches. It was difficult to keep
one's conscience awake to Baedeker and a sense of moral obligation; Ruskin was
impossible, and a picture-gallery was a penance. We floated lazily from one
place to another, and decided that, after all, it was too warm to go in. The
cries of the gondoliers, at the canal corners, grew more and more monotonous and
dreamy.
Locusts and Wild Honey - John Burroughs
The notion has always very generally prevailed that
the queen of the bees is an absolute ruler, and issues her royal orders to
willing subjects. Hence Napoleon the First sprinkled the symbolic bees over the
imperial mantle that bore the arms of his dynasty; and in the country of the
Pharaohs the bee was used as the emblem of a people sweetly submissive to the
orders of its king. But the fact is, a swarm of bees is an absolute democracy,
and kings and despots can find no warrant in their example. The power and
authority are entirely vested in the great mass, the workers.
Signs of Change - William Morris
In considering the Aims of Art, that is, why men
toilsomely cherish and practise Art, I find myself compelled to generalize from
the only specimen of humanity of which I know anything; to wit, myself. Now,
when I think of what it is that I desire, I find that I can give it no other
name than happiness. I want to be happy while I live; for as for death, I find
that, never having experienced it, I have no conception of what it means --by
Sci Fi
The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes - Various
Candid Robber? The duke of Ossuna, viceroy of
Naples, once visited the galleys, and passing through the prisoners, he asked
several of them what their offences were. All of them excused themselves upon
various pretences; one said he was put in out of malice, another by bribery of
the judge; but all of them declared they were punished unjustly. The duke came
at last to a little black man, whom he questioned as to what he was there for.
?My lord,? said he, ?I cannot deny but I am justly put in here; for I wanted
money, and my family was starving, so I robbed a passenger near Tarragona of his
purse.? The duke, on hearing this, gave him a blow on the shoulder with his
stick, saying, ?You rogue, what are you doing here among so many honest,
innocent men? Get you out of their company.? The poor fellow was then set at
liberty, while the rest were left to tug at the oar.
Applied Graphology: How to
Analyze Handwriting
- Irene Marcuse
For those who know
little of the background of graphology, I will try to indicate some
of the high points of this science. The claims now made by modern
graphologists have met the critical approval of men of academic and
learned societies. Therefore, it is not surprising that the
constantly increasing interest shown by the American public in
character analysis as interpreted by handwriting has been the
stimulus for this book. Its aim is to demonstrate the benefits of
graphology and to acquaint the public with the importance of its
usage. All analyses herein are made from scientific and
psychological conclusions.
In this introduction it will be well to clear up some of the
puzzling impressions the public has in general of the usage of
graphology. In the first place, a scientific analysis is not made
through intuition or simple surmise, but upon the principles which
have already passed the stage of mere observation. Although
intuition does play a certain part in graphology, just as it does in
all analyses, we do not accept it or let it influence us in our
interpretations until after our scientific work has been validated.
Stress must be laid on the fact that predictions are not made in
graphology. However, it is not denied that extraordinary and
penetrating deductions can be made by those who are particularly
gifted with an innate talent in judging character from handwriting.
It is to those people we owe the first interpretations of
graphology. Serious students and doctors have amassed a collection
of drawings and handwritings as evidence of certain factors
repeating themselves in handwriting, and it is through their
investigations and wide experience that the claims of graphology are
truly justified.
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Modern
Lettering and Calligraphy
The tools of the lettering craftsman, be he calligrapher, painter or
stone-mason, have not changed with the years, but the form of the
letters and the execution-particularly in architecture-have moved
with the times, and we find neon strip, plastic and other materials
providing; new methods of attracting public attention and new
problems for the lettering craftsman to solve. Whether the public
fully appreciate the immense use which is made of the drawn letter
is a debatable point, for whether ultimately printed, painted or
rendered into metal or stone, the original is the work of an artist,
call himself what he will.
As in Lettering of Today this volume has been divided into four
sections, each selected by a practising craftsman in his own
particular sphere. [Calligraphy, Book Production, Lettering in
Association with Architecture and Lettering in Advertising] Within
the limitations of these four sections will be found a wide
selection of representative examples of lettering of today. Beyond
these limits there are of course many other uses of lettering,
particularly those in which the miniature or illustration plays a
major decorative role. To cover them all with any degree of
thoroughness is beyond the scope of one volume and we hope that our
readers will agree that in choosing a smaller field we have been
able to produce a more valuable work.
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Disputed Handrwriting - Jerome B. Lavay
An Exhaustive, Valuable, and Comprehensive Work upon One of the Most Important
Subjects of To-day. With ... Expositions for the Detection and Study of Forgery
by Handwriting of All Kinds
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