Keeping Fit All the Way - Walter
Camp
When I started the experiment of the Senior Service Corps at New Haven, in the
spring of 1917, all my men were over forty-five, and several of them had passed
the seventy mark; yet all found increased health and efficiency from the
prescribed regime. There was a distinct gain, not only in health, but in spirits
and in temper. Nerves that had been at high tension relaxed to normal. Effort
that had seemed exhaustive became pleasurable. The ordinary problems of business
or finance, once so apt to be vexatious, lost their power to produce worry. In
fact, these men had renewed their youth; they had altered the horizon-line of
advancing age, across which only clouds of doubt and apprehension could be seen,
to that of youth, radiant with the sunshine of hope and the promise of
accomplishment.
Lawn Tennis for Ladies - Mrs. Lambert Chambers
A good lawn tennis racket is indispensable; indeed,
to use a weapon of inferior make is to court failure from the start. You cannot
be too particular to have a really well-made racket. Fortunately there are now
so many good makers that it is a player's own fault if she is not suitably
equipped. It may be a little more expensive to buy a really first-class racket;
but the few extra shillings are well worth while if you mean to take up the game
seriously, and to get out of it all the enjoyment you can.
Lessons in Life - Timothy Titcomb
Reader, did you ever drive a horse that had the
mean habit of shying? If so, then you will remember how constantly he was on the
lookout for objects that would frighten him. He would never wait for the bugbear
to show its head; but he conjured it up at every point. Every hair upon his
sides seemed transformed into an eye; and there was not a colored stone, nor a
stick of wood, nor a bit of paper, nor a small dog, nor a shadow across the
road, nor any thing that introduced variety into his passage, that did not seem
to be endowed with some marvellous power of repulsion.
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.
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.
Love, Life and Work - Elbert Hubbard
Do your work to-day, doing it the best you can, and
live one day at a time. The man that does this is conserving his God-given
energy, and not spinning it out into tenuous spider threads so fragile and filmy
that unkind Fate will probably brush it away.
Maintaining Health - R. L. Alsaker
Men who like to call their work scientific, figure
on the amount of food we need to furnish a certain number of heat units?calories.
Heat, of course, is a form of energy. Basing the body's food requirements on
heat units expended does not solve the problem. The more food that is ingested,
the more heat units must be manufactured, and often so much food is taken that
the body is compelled to go into the heating business. Then we have fevers.
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