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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 34 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 45788 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 87 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 little 11 illustration 10 Mr. 9 good 8 time 8 place 8 man 8 Mrs. 7 end 7 child 7 God 6 hand 5 piece 5 paper 5 like 5 inch 5 game 5 cut 5 New 5 Miss 5 John 5 CHAPTER 4 line 4 chapter 4 boy 4 Fig 3 thing 3 player 3 life 3 flower 3 box 3 Queen 3 Cousin= 3 Christ 2 work 2 word 2 way 2 water 2 table 2 story 2 small 2 play 2 old 2 number 2 love 2 indian 2 house 2 friend 2 design 2 day Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 2706 time 2454 child 2304 illustration 2254 man 2083 end 2080 side 2071 paper 1982 inch 1953 boy 1924 hand 1853 one 1853 day 1840 way 1837 piece 1717 thing 1501 place 1467 water 1451 game 1415 house 1299 player 1291 line 1225 head 1197 mother 1168 room 1168 girl 1166 eye 1145 work 1139 foot 1117 people 1090 box 1057 book 1035 part 989 table 989 life 983 father 952 fig 921 home 910 flower 887 edge 872 number 866 top 858 name 827 year 809 word 782 story 777 wood 762 hole 750 tree 732 heart 730 friend Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 10339 _ 1737 Fig 1193 Mr. 1014 C 875 Mrs. 863 K 773 G 731 M 713 B 550 See 536 FIG 533 Ethel 485 D 473 E 460 Jewel 457 Pony 433 Miss 390 Roger 338 CHAPTER 307 H 307 God 303 N 303 Blue 265 Evringham 260 Brown 255 Christmas 245 New 244 Jim 243 Helen 235 Tom 235 A 225 Lucy 223 King 208 | 204 Gabriel 202 John 189 James 189 Aunt 188 Jimmy 181 Frank 180 Emerson 179 Sue 177 Leonard 172 Mother 167 Harry 166 Morton 166 Gladys 165 Mary 164 Dicky 164 Church Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 17471 it 11745 you 9717 i 9668 he 7036 they 5328 she 4659 them 3976 we 3527 him 1776 her 1689 me 1091 us 543 himself 393 themselves 385 one 254 herself 229 yourself 221 itself 118 ''s 109 myself 92 thee 67 ourselves 56 yours 56 mine 54 ''em 23 his 21 hers 16 theirs 12 ours 10 thyself 10 em 8 ourself 7 yourselves 7 oneself 5 ye 4 yo 4 u 4 eva 3 yaw 2 you''ll 2 thy 2 i''m 1 your_self 1 you''re 1 yo''self 1 yit 1 yerself 1 ya 1 villette.-- 1 uv Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 53236 be 13938 have 7524 do 6675 make 4400 say 3639 go 3353 see 2975 take 2788 come 2483 give 2405 know 2203 get 2136 think 1882 find 1773 use 1716 look 1533 cut 1518 tell 1455 keep 1450 put 1408 show 1347 let 1139 call 1103 run 1098 leave 1078 place 1070 hold 1069 ask 1053 begin 996 stand 989 bring 948 draw 946 play 943 want 900 try 867 seem 866 turn 752 hear 747 like 709 pass 707 follow 684 grow 666 feel 653 become 640 read 626 need 617 sit 607 set 578 write 574 return Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9875 not 3852 little 3801 then 3698 so 3367 up 2822 very 2811 good 2677 out 2655 other 2310 more 2106 well 2099 now 2037 long 1913 first 1861 as 1703 down 1656 only 1563 much 1517 old 1509 just 1479 small 1450 great 1341 many 1282 large 1263 too 1212 same 1190 here 1109 off 1105 never 1082 back 1057 most 1053 together 1052 white 1051 again 1049 also 1006 young 972 away 970 right 966 such 949 even 928 on 901 all 894 own 865 there 856 always 846 in 819 enough 773 few 768 last 746 next Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 808 good 285 most 246 least 164 great 75 large 64 high 57 near 48 simple 47 bad 41 fine 40 small 35 old 35 Most 21 young 21 slight 20 low 20 long 20 late 19 dear 18 strong 18 eld 18 early 17 hard 17 easy 16 short 16 lovely 14 wide 13 rich 13 pure 13 noble 12 full 12 deep 11 nice 11 happy 11 big 9 wise 9 tall 9 few 9 bright 8 soft 8 safe 8 poor 8 mean 8 fair 8 dark 8 cheap 7 sweet 7 hot 6 sure 6 new Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 772 most 81 well 59 least 2 youngest 2 hard 1 talkest 1 soon 1 oddest 1 near Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 www.gutenberg.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/9/0/18907/18907-h/18907-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/9/0/18907/18907-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/5/5/15550/15550-h/15550-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/5/5/15550/15550-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/3/1/14315/14315-h/14315-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/3/1/14315/14315-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50 _ see also 19 _ is _ 14 _ see _ 11 game goes on 11 one does not 10 mother did not 7 _ do n''t 6 _ do _ 6 _ was _ 5 _ know _ 5 child looked up 5 girls are not 5 one is not 5 paper is then 5 player is then 5 things are not 4 = place cards= 4 _ are _ 4 _ have _ 4 _ think _ 4 children were so 4 papers are then 4 players go out 3 _ did _ 3 _ did n''t 3 _ had _ 3 _ is n''t 3 _ was n''t 3 boy did not 3 boy had never 3 boys are apt 3 boys did not 3 child was too 3 children do not 3 game is over 3 girls are so 3 man had never 3 mother came in 3 player does not 3 player goes out 3 player takes up 3 things are so 3 water is deep 2 * cutting out 2 _ be _ 2 _ call _ 2 _ does _ 2 _ doing _ 2 _ done _ 2 _ go _ Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 girls are not so 1 boy had no business 1 boy is not likely 1 boy is not so 1 boys are not designers 1 boys had not already 1 child has no brains 1 child is not always 1 child was not merely 1 children are not good 1 children do not _ 1 children thought no game 1 day is not evident 1 ends do not quite 1 game is not so 1 games are not as 1 girl has not already 1 girl took no notice 1 girls are not necessarily 1 head does not greatly 1 head is not very 1 heads has no doubt 1 house is no place 1 house was not yet 1 houses are not so 1 illustrations are no little 1 lines are not agreeable 1 man has no sober 1 man is not education 1 man is not yet 1 men are not fond 1 men had no beards 1 mother did not even 1 mother made no reply 1 one does not always 1 one does not often 1 one finds not only 1 one had no use 1 one has not already 1 one is not careful 1 one is not quite 1 one is not sober 1 ones are not strong 1 piece is not large 1 player had no more 1 room has no floor 1 room is not complete 1 room is not large 1 thing is not unknown 1 things are not fit A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 57844 author = Alden, W. L. (William Livingston) title = The Adventures of Jimmy Brown date = keywords = Eliza; Harry; Jimmy; Martin; Mr.; Sue; Tom; Travers; illustration summary = Said he, "Jimmy, I think I saw Mr. Martin on his way here. After the time he bit Mr. Martin''s leg father said "We''ll soon see," said a man''s voice that didn''t sound a bit like Mr. Travers''s. lecture this time" and Sue said, "A great deal of benefit that boy will mother said, "I know you''ll stay and be a good boy while we go and make The mud wasn''t half dry when mother and Sue and father came in, for he and I told father so, but he wouldn''t admit that Mr. Travers or Sue or me, and before I went to sleep, he came and said, "Good-night, Jimmy. mean, Jimmy?" And I said that Sue had got some new back hair a little and instead of telling me I was a good boy, she said, "Oh you little Tom and I came home again, and when we got a little rested we said we id = 42549 author = Beard, Lina title = Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for Girls date = keywords = CHAPTER; cut; edge; end; fig; flower; hand; illustration; inch; indian; line; little; paper; piece; place; weave summary = [Illustration: Fig. 44.--Bend up the ends now and weave the sides.] [Illustration: Fig. 66.--Bend back the second grass ends like the [Illustration: Fig. 80.--Nail one end of the small rope to the edge of [Illustration: Fig. 81.--Make the end pieces like this.] Lift up the free end of the folded paper (Fig. 97) and place the centre [Illustration: Fig. 104.--Hungry little paper chicken.] Cut the head-dress like Fig. 172 of white paper. Cut three paper feather strips (Fig. 186), each an inch in length, paint Cut from red, orange, yellow, and black tissue-paper flames like Fig. 217; bend at dotted line and paste the mingled flames one at a time and [Illustration: Fig. 253.--Slide the paper end in the wood like this.] [Illustration: Fig. 282.--The little paper house.] [Illustration: Fig. 310.--Fasten a strip of paper along the edge.] [Illustration: Fig. 403.--Cut six holes in the paper like these.] id = 44440 author = Beard, Lina title = Mother Nature''s Toy-Shop date = keywords = Fig; chapter; cut; design; end; flower; illustration; like; little; stem summary = [Illustration: Fig.21 Design of leaves and buds of Red Clover.] Cut the paper tail like the pattern Fig. 33, fringe it along the edge [Illustration: Fig.50 The little Grass House you can make.] [Illustration: Fig.59 End poles are added to hold up the roof.] would hang your doll''s little sheets on your toy clothes-line (Fig. 65), and bring the ends down over the thatched rafters on each side of [Illustration: Fig.67 Bring the long end of string across front of like Fig. 108, hold the stem closely between your open hands and roll For the little water-lilies select perfect white clover-blossoms (Fig. 133), and for the leaves, or lily-pads, use any rather small, smooth, [Illustration: Fig.136 Cut open the pea-pod along dotted line.] [Illustration: Fig.169 Stick a pea on the lower ends of each Your little house (Fig. 176) now looks like those which strange people id = 40309 author = Bellew, Frank title = The Art of Amusing Being a Collection of Graceful Arts, Merry Games, Odd Tricks, Curious Puzzles, and New Charades. Together with Suggestions for Private Theatricals, Tableaux, and All Sorts of Parlor and Family Amusements. date = keywords = Artist; Aunty; Bullywingle; CHAPTER; Delluvian; Judy; Lady; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Nix; Punch; gentleman; good; hand; illustration; little; look; old; time summary = _CHAPTER XXIII.--At a watering-place.--A ladies'' fair.--Three ladies--for we, like the boy who knew what good victuals were, having Freddy Nix, a little three-year-old, who, after ducking his head down on neat little bags of white muslin, and with some blue paint (water color) with weak gum-water, at the same time sticking on them little pieces of After a time, while the young ladies were still at work on the mice like With a triumphant air, the gold spectacles turned to our friend Nix. Nix, who is a pretty good accountant, thought it would take nearer six _Lady C._ "He seems a pretty nice kind or young man, tho'' he ain''t got fellows do get their heads turned by the girls," and the good old lady man''s head is turned--don''t you see!" and again the old lady went off in Our young lady friends had a number of wonderful things produced in this id = 46445 author = Boone, Cheshire Lowton title = The Library of Work and Play: Guide and Index date = keywords = Game; House; School; Water; book; boy; characteristic; child; design; electric; food; girl; illustration; making; plant; table; time; tool; value; wood; work summary = The boy makes a kite, a telegraph outfit, or sled in order to give to of mechanics and craft work, gardening, outdoor projects, camping, about "Needlecraft," "Home Decoration," "Outdoor Work," "Gardening," tools work best which are sharp and clean and always in place. boy makes for _use_. materials and uses; the care of possessions, repairs and cleaning; The things he makes are always for real use, a principle books and tools, a working place or shop, and open the way for progress _See_ Basket making; Bead work; Block printing; Brass work; Copper work; Embroidery; Lace making; Leather work; Metal tooled leather, design and making, D 338-340* _See also_ Bird house; Book case; Book rack; Box making; Building; silver work tool, making, M 157-158* Copper work; Embroidery; Furniture; House decoration; Leather iron work stand for, making, M 406-409* ''wall rack, designing and making, C 347-350*, D 156-151*'' ''wall rack, designing and making, C 347-350*, D 156-151*'' id = 16448 author = Burnham, Clara Louise title = Jewel''s Story Book date = keywords = Alma; Ernest; Evringham; Faith; Fletcher; Flossie; Gabriel; Gladys; God; Harry; Hazel; Jewel; Julia; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Topaz summary = "Yes, I shall think about it lots of times," said the little girl. I think Star will like the park pretty well." Jewel looked said, after waiting a little, and Jewel, looking up at him with an April when she went away and said ''Good-by, you queer little thing!''" "Come here, Jewel; sit still," said the mother, striving to pull the "Your grandpa is coming out early, Jewel," said her father. "Perhaps father would like to drive mother in the phaeton," said the child, "Anna Belle''s pond will overflow, I think," said Jewel, looking out the "I don''t think much of your dog''s dancing," said Gabriel, looking him in "I''ve been looking up that boat business, Jewel," said Mr. Evringham. "It _is_ a golden dog," said Jewel''s mother, looking almost as enthusiastic "Let''s have a look at it, Jewel," said Mr. Evringham, and he took hold of id = 6129 author = Calhoun, A. R. (Alfred Rochefort) title = Healthful Sports for Boys date = keywords = ball; boy; chapter; end; foot; game; good; hand; line; place; player; ring; time; water; way summary = How sides are chosen in games of contest; some things all boys should Some good games that can be played with ball, bat The three great essentials of the game are the boys, the marbles, and In this game, one boy, called "Knucks," takes a small marble between I have known cases where a number of boys, living near the water, METHODS OF SWIMMING, FLOATING, DIVING, AND SOME GOOD WATER GAMES A very old way is to toss up two coins, sometimes boys carry such try the game, each player hurries to secure a good sized stone, or AND NOW FOR BALL--SOME OF THE MANY GOOD GAMES THAT CAN BE PLAYED WITH cricket, baseball, hand ball and other great games, many books have played, one of our best out-door games, I think it well that my boy At any time a player may carry the ball across his own goal line, and id = 26339 author = Clara title = Cupology: How to Be Entertaining date = keywords = God; cup; eye; friend; good; great; life; little; love; man; reading; time; woman summary = desirous of acquiring this fine art, this character reading gift. Joy is the grace we say to God. LOVE''S SECRETS READ. little straight forms, or lines, are realizations, as in this cup, of packages near at hand, with two little _hearts_--love secrets. In touch with life''s blessings you possess a kind, social nature-effort holds in a life-reading like this. Appearances do oft deceive, good reader, though the cup figures head of the little anchor, like some friend in need. good name of your best friend, young man. each life, my dear young friends. Learn to reason with head, heart and soul." The young man is come to her" some good time, and that this brief school-life is possess the high art of selecting our friends and our life You now think you are in love with a good young girl. The man we love--he who thinks the most good and speaks the id = 45677 author = Crane, J. T. (Jonathan Townley) title = Popular Amusements date = keywords = CHAPTER; Christ; Church; Episcopal; God; Lord; Methodist; Mr.; christian; good; illustration; man; play; recreation; thing; time summary = Said to be a Good Place to Learn History, etc.--Some Plays "as Recreation--Social Life--Grand "Party"--More Excellent Way Presbyterians--The Methodist Episcopal Church South--Young Men''s not be out of place to inquire how often these good plays are performed, conduct, ceases to attend the play and begins to attend Church, his true employ numbers of young men, are doubtful about members of ball clubs, three times in the course of his life, he has seen people playing cards. One needs but little information in regard to card-playing to entitle 1. _If you have but little time for reading, spend none of it on works not a small thing for a few young men and women, before whom real life devoted followers of Christ love his Church and his people. 4. _When young Church members become giddy and fond of worldly pleasure, will it do me to join your Church if I need not be any thing but what I id = 14315 author = Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson) title = Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs date = keywords = CHAPTER; Christmas; Day; Easter; England; John; King; New; Queen; St.; church; custom; game; old; play; sport summary = the sports, games, pastimes, and customs associated with these rural Easter Customs--Pace Eggs--Handball in Churches--Sports confined of the old village games and sports have survived. Happy New Year." "Wassail" is an old Saxon word, meaning "Be in The custom of giving presents on New Year''s Day is as old as the players in the good old days, although the play is generally less Of all the sports and pastimes of old England, archery was the most An old writer tells us that it was the custom in some churches for Long before the break of day, men and women, old and young, of all The game of quarter-staff is an old pastime which was a great old sports the ancestors of our noble game of cricket, and wonder at Such was the harvest-home in the good old days--joy and delight to The "Wakes," or village feast, was a great day for all sports and id = 46540 author = Finley, Martha title = Elsie''s Winter Trip date = keywords = Captain; Chester; Dinsmore; Elsie; Evelyn; Grace; Grandma; Harold; Lucilla; Max; Mr.; Mrs.; Ned; Violet summary = "Yes, go, daughter; I think you will enjoy it," her father said in "Yes, father, we do," said Max, "and we are always glad when you care "Yes, dear little sister; thank you for coming for me," replied Evelyn, "Yes, sir," said Elsie, "papa never seems to think it too much trouble "I think it was papa who took us," said Elsie, smiling up into his face "Yes, I think they were," said Grandma Elsie, "for it was gaining "No," said Grandma Elsie, "and I think I, for one, do not care to land "Yes, papa, and they are beautiful," said Elsie. "So that we may hope to have a good time there, I suppose," said Ned. "I think I have read that they are good-tempered," said Grandma Elsie. upon Elsie and her pet, the Captain said, "I think you have not yet "Come, Tee-tee; it''s your turn to talk a little," said Ned, patting and id = 31186 author = Fisher, Dorothy Canfield title = What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes date = keywords = Book; Fig; John; Man; Miss; Mr.; child; cut; game; good; hand; house; illustration; like; little; paper; place; player; round; story; thing; time; way; word summary = This is a game for several little players and two stronger ones. is placed in the middle of the room and the players join hands and In this game, which is usually played by girls, one player hides her a row, and one of the end players begins by saying, "A good fat hen." In this game goals are set up at each end of the room, the players are In this game tissue-paper is cut into pieces three or four inches For this game sheets of paper are handed round and each player draws paper, and the object of the game is to find, in a given time, words Paper is handed round, and each player thinks of some public person, players may like to add to the fun of the ordinary game by adopting a used for a round game by one player making a word, shuffling it, and id = 17956 author = Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, Viscount title = Recreation by Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G. date = keywords = Colonel; England; Roosevelt; bird summary = find real recreation and spend leisure time when they have it in reading great books of all time on which one generation after another has set one has said, "Whenever a new book comes out read an old one." We need time the names of modern books which they have read and found good. best things in life, the recreation of reading needs a little planning. songs of English birds suggested some two years previously would be the Romans came, for the songs of birds come down unchanged through American bird songs were better than anything we had in England; but his said everybody talked about the song of the thrush; it had a great so few people have sufficient feeling about bird songs to care to Roosevelt had said, that the song of this bird would be about the only England, should be the only song bird which the great continent of North id = 42650 author = Hall, A. Neely (Albert Neely) title = The Boy Craftsman Practical and Profitable Ideas for a Boy''s Leisure Hours date = keywords = Fig; Figs; board; box; boy; chapter; cut; end; fasten; illustration; inch; nail; piece; place; work summary = legs and on to the piece nailed to the wall, as shown in Fig. 1. apron, and, after cutting the ends as shown in Fig. 4, nail it across in cutting the edges of a piece of wood, as shown in Figs. Prepare the two side-pieces the shape and size shown in Fig. 52, and cut inches long should be fastened to one end, as shown in the drawing. be placed as shown in Fig. 151, so that the upper edge of one end is windows, hinge them to the inside edges of the jambs as shown in Fig. 190, and nail a seven-eighths-inch window-stop around the jambs outside bait-stick, notching one end and tapering the other, as shown in Fig. 221, and cut another stick twenty-four inches long and flatten it at two-by-fours _K_ and _L_ to the uprights in the places shown in Fig. 252, with braces set between them and the pieces _H_ and _J_, at _M_, id = 18907 author = Higgins, Emily Mayer title = Holidays at the Grange; or, A Week''s Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside date = keywords = Alice; Amy; Aunt; Bolton; Charlie; Clara; Cornelia; Cousin; Don; Ellen; Fairy; George; God; John; Lucy; Magdalena; Margaret; Mary; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Queen; Roscoe; Rudolph; Tom; Wyndham; good; little; man; think summary = passed away, on Christmas Day, in the year One. He said, ''I never come to such a pass, that a little girl of three years old, who had been "As for me, I always like a real fairy-tale," said Amy, her eyes his father and mother, so kind and good; of merry little Bertha, ever so children together: the little girl looked up to him as almost a man, and "I''m afraid a good many people think as you do, Cornelia," said Mrs. Wyndham, laughing. "Then there is another thing I was thinking of," said Amy; "the good certainly, as I said before, for a daughter to think of a young man little things for them which so young a girl seldom thinks of; but her "I think I shall like it," said Ellen. simple-hearted little man; "when it came home, the Captain said he had id = 22219 author = Howells, William Dean title = The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy''s Town Story date = keywords = Baker; Dave; Frank; Indians; Jake; Jim; Leonard; Pony summary = boys, and then she would ask Pony''s father if he wanted the child to take boys; but if Pony''s father came along, he would very likely say, "Well, ready to run off right away, was the way his father behaved when Pony got Nearly all the fellows agreed, and Old Hawkins said: "Come along, Pony! Pony Baker, who had come with his father, believed that Jim Leonard would When Pony was gone, Hen Billard said: "Well, going to stay all night, Pony began to be afraid they were going to hurt Jim Leonard if they got "Why, Pony," said his mother, "is there anybody who thinks such a thing "They wished to believe it," said Pony''s father, "and so did Jim, I dare Pony was afraid that Jim Leonard wanted him to run off with the Indians, "Now, you see, Pony," said Jim Leonard, "what a good thing it was that I id = 39663 author = Johnston, B. (Bertha) title = Home Occupations for Boys and Girls date = keywords = Doll; Easter; Red; Toy; box; child; color; cut; end; inch; little; paint; paper; paste; piece; place; small summary = If old enough to use scissors, let the child cut the boxes apart with Let the child experiment in making boxes of different shapes and sizes Let the child begin the _cutting_ by making a snowball out of white Out of red paper let the child cut six (or any number desired) narrow Let the little child begin by cutting strips of some bright paper or Cut a sheet of tissue paper into little oblongs 4 × 5 inches. Cut pieces of tissue paper 12 inches square; place the circle holding Let child draw or paint design for toy rug he is making for doll-house. Cut the Bristol board into 1-inch squares and let the child paint or Cut from the colored paper an oblong piece measuring 8 inches in length an older child can cut leaves of the green paper and paste on. id = 2603 author = Judy, J. M. title = Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes date = keywords = Christ; God; London; New; St.; York; book; christian; day; friend; home; life; man; person; read; social; time summary = of social, domestic, and personal practices which charm the life, secure short hour enough time was lost by that young man to have carefully read old man, as he is close to sixty years of age, to hear him tell in a Only by a study of the drink evil shall we know its ravages in the home. Those of us who have lived in the pure air of free, country home-life help, his home and wife and little one, and would lose himself for days book which every person who sees no harm in dancing should read. returned the key and let his friend read as much as he liked." Writes one has taught school all day, or set type, or managed a home, or read has read a book a day for over twenty years. "A true home life where father, mother, and children spend much time id = 42863 author = Linscott, Herbert B., Mrs. title = Bright Ideas for Entertaining date = keywords = CONTEST; Christmas; John; Miss; New; Party; President; SOCIABLE; State; Washington; cake; card; child; evening; flower; green; guest; japanese; large; little; man; number; paper; place; red; room; small; table; wedding; white summary = invite as many little guests as correspond to the number of years of the at the other end place something that looks like a large white frosted a large Chinese umbrella, and around it place small tables on which to Each guest is given a little fancy basket in which to gather his eggs. small Japanese umbrellas tied with the Japanese colors, red and white. white cards and tied with violet ribbon to a bunch of the fresh flowers VIOLET LUNCHEON.--In the centre of a table stand a large cut-glass bowl For the supper have a salad served in little paper boxes decorated with Place these objects tastefully on the dining-room table, each guest on The six small luncheon tables were set with green and white china, and Red and white decorated racquets can be given the guests as they leave, Then small white cards were passed tied with cherry-colored id = 43249 author = MacDonald, Elizabeth Roberts title = Our Little Canadian Cousin date = keywords = Cousin=; Dora; Grey; House; Jackie; Marjorie; Merrithew; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; canadian; little summary = The big brick house from which Mrs. Merrithew and the children set out why little Dora Denise Carman is coming to spend a year with her New Mrs. Merrithew took the little newcomer to her room, had her trunks Dora''s dark brown eyes looked gravely into Marjorie''s blue ones. "That''s the way with mother," Marjorie said to Dora after breakfast. for the family all their lives, owned that an omelette like Mrs. Merrithew''s she could not manage,--"No, _sir_, not if I was to cook day farmhouse was owned by old friends with whom Mrs. Merrithew and Mrs. Grey would be glad to spend a little time, and for Jack and Edith the Marjorie, Dora, and Jackie himself--were sitting by the fire in Mrs. Merrithew''s "Den," the very cosiest room in the house. the sugar-camps, and though it was chiefly for grown people, Mrs. Merrithew allowed Dora and Marjorie to go. id = 14608 author = May, Sophie title = Jimmy, Lucy, and All date = keywords = Bab; Dunlee; Edith; James; Jimmy; Kyzie; Lucy; Mrs.; Nate summary = Kyzie thought not; so Jimmy went on telling Lucy what he knew of Castle said to the engine, ''Come here, little choo choo, Eddo won''t hurt oo.'' "He is trying to tell you how glad he is to see you," said Mr. Templeton, as the children shouted and clapped their hands. But for Kyzie and Edith and Jimmy the good times had begun already. "Look, Lucy," whispered Jimmy; "there''s a boy I know over there at that After breakfast Edith happened to leave the dining-room just behind Mrs. McQuilken, who held her two cats cuddled up in her arms like babies, "How do _you_ know?" asked Jimmy-boy, who thought Nate was putting on "My little boys, Pitt and Roscoe, liked to hear him do that," said Mrs. McQuilken. Before Kyzie had time to say, "Why, Lucy!" little Eddo ran up the steps "But Jimmy-boy, it won''t be very much," said Edith. id = 38977 author = Nesbit, E. (Edith) title = Wings and the Child; Or, The Building of Magic Cities date = keywords = God; Temple; box; brick; build; building; chapter; child; city; good; house; illustration; life; like; little; man; thing summary = the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys and little science of building a magic city in the soul of a child, a city built of people feel to the end that they are children in a grown-up world. children have forgotten what it feels like to be a child, those who do beauty, in the matter of teaching children things without boring them, of things they think you might like for your building. child who did not like building magic cities, and not many grown-ups. built, and whether "children like us" could build one, and, if so, how? about children, and other things than magic cities, and I wrote them, I do not mean that a child building a city sees all of it at once--in YOU wander round the house seeking beautiful things which look like grass plot in a suitable place in your city and build a little red brick id = 6416 author = Seeger, Frederica title = Entertainments for Home, Church and School date = keywords = CHAPTER; John; ball; child; figure; game; hand; light; line; man; number; place; player; stand; throw; time; word summary = leader asks each player in turn, "What is my thought like?" The one A player mixes his pieces and passes them to his right-hand neighbor. Pencil and paper having been given the players, each writes a piece All the players stand in a circle holding a long cord, which forms an At the beginning of the game the board is so placed that each player Any number of players may play this game, which is common to almost up by the second player does not correspond in number to that turned by playing the following game: Each player writes several words on a The game commences by a player hitting off from a marked line called The player who gets the greatest number of points in a given time, In this game the players are numbered, and one is blindfolded. of the number of times a player can do this. id = 15550 author = Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) title = Ethel Morton at Rose House date = keywords = Blue; Brown; Dorothy; Emerson; Ethel; Miss; Moya; Mr.; Mrs.; Roger; Schuler summary = "Shall we appoint Ethel Brown to call on Mrs. Schuler and talk it over "We must think of every one we know who has made over a house, and Dr. Watkins ought to be able to tell us of some people who have had Fresh at once in search of food, while Mrs. Emerson and Ethel Blue managed to baby, Ethel Brown and Mrs. Emerson''s cook were at the door with jellied "She said she came out from New York to look for work in the country." "Somehow it''s the sudden things that happens to me," said Moya to Mrs. Emerson. "What do you think of this plan?" Ethel Brown asked her mother after Mrs. Schuler made up her mind that home--meaning Rose House--was the said one day to Mrs. Schuler and Ethel Blue when they heard from the Mrs. Smith was building a new house, and Dorothy and the Ethels had id = 36010 author = Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) title = Ethel Morton at Chautauqua date = keywords = Blue; Brown; Chautauqua; Club; Dicky; Dorothy; Emerson; Ethel; Hall; Helen; James; Margaret; Morton; Mother; Mr.; Mrs.; Roger summary = said Mrs. Morton as a boy of Roger''s age came forward to meet them. "If you undertake a thing like this you''ll have to stick to it," Mrs. Morton warned again, for Roger''s chief fault was that he tired quickly "I believe this must be the Girls'' Club," said Ethel Brown. "It will be Roger''s turn to join next," said Ethel Brown timidly; "he''s "How long have we got to wait?" asked Ethel Blue who liked to have want to?" Ethel Blue asked Helen as they went up the steps of their own been awaiting the coming of the Reading Hour came Mrs. Morton and Mr. Emerson, breaking into a run as they approached near enough to see that "I think it would be splendid, Ethel Blue," she said; "I know Mother "Mother," said Ethel Brown in the afternoon when Mrs. Morton and Mr. Emerson and their admiring family had returned to the cottage, "would id = 43636 author = Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title = Our Little Cuban Cousin date = keywords = Cuba; Diaz; Lucia; Maria; Ramon; Spaniards; american; child; little; spanish summary = glad to meet and know our little Cuban neighbour, Maria. Look out and get ready." Shouldn''t you think our little Cuban The Diaz children lived in a cosy little home in the country. Ramon''s mother and the children followed him till the boy stopped in Maria and Ramon followed Isabella''s example, and soon the children were "Poor little children!" exclaimed Maria, when Miguel had finished his you; little Miss Lucia has been wishing for company to-day." "Oh, look, Ramon!" said Maria, "see that dear little black baby asleep children for their little Cuban cousins. Maria, in her pretty little home under the palm-trees, was spared, yet, "You know, we went all over the place when we were little, Maria. A delightful story of a little boy who has many adventures by means of A little story which teaches children that the birds are man''s best id = 43832 author = Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title = Our Little German Cousin date = keywords = Bertha; Cousin=; Germany; Gretchen; Hans; Strasburg; good; little summary = "You don''t know what I''ve got for you, Hans," said Bertha, laughing and "A long time ago," said their father, "they used to celebrate Christmas Bertha often visits a little friend who helps her father make "I wonder if there is any story about that brook," said Bertha. "Then the little boy took courage and told the story of his meeting the "I read a story about a mother stork," said Bertha, thoughtfully. "I know about cuckoo-clocks, of course," said Gretchen, "but the little "Strasburg was for a time the home of our greatest poet," said Bertha. "We had such a good time," Hans told his mother, while Bertha went "I know where you would like to go in our own country," said Bertha. "He loved his people dearly, father once told me," said Bertha. A little story which teaches children that the birds are man''s best id = 46484 author = Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard title = Our Little Eskimo Cousin date = keywords = Colonel; Cousin=; Eskimo; Etu; day; little; mother; seal; story summary = people did their work; and that must be called day in Etu''s far marked the entrances to the winter houses built by Etu''s father and Baby Etu''s skin was much whiter than his mother''s,--very nearly as MONTH after month passed by with baby Etu. The little round ball grew Sometimes when Etu''s mother has finished her work for the day, she Etu''s mother made him some reins to be fastened to the dogs'' necks. How did Etu''s mother manage to make the boat water-tight? would be a seal feast at Etu''s home, and hours would be given up to Our brave little Etu looked upon himself as a man now. dog, if left alone, might succeed in scaring away the old seal; and Etu THE long winter was over at last, and Etu''s people got ready to leave It was after one of these long days on the plains that Etu came home id = 22422 author = Warner, Anna Bartlett title = Tired Church Members date = keywords = Bible; Christ; Christians; God; Lord; Miriam; like; people summary = subject of Christian amusements some curious things have come to light. And to people with hearts so set, that other vexed question of dress will of course you rule out music and painting." So people judge; taking And so it comes among the rest, that there is "a time to dance." [2] melody in your hearts to the Lord"; and now for dancing the order comes: think "dancing before the Lord" must have been very pure refreshment. you cannot dance all night with people, and next day warn them against At last one day her friends said (knowing nothing of all this), think a little you will find that, like my poor young friend in her The only thing I think of mentioned in the Bible that is much like said afterwards to other people that they liked to see any one true to "My people have forgotten their resting place"--let it not ever be said id = 43720 author = White, Mary title = The Child''s Rainy Day Book date = keywords = FIG; Required:=; bead; end; illustration; inch; indian; piece summary = the rattan into a ring, ten inches across; lay the end of your raffia, three-eighths of an inch from the wide end a small piece, one-quarter of the scraps of leather remaining cut two pieces, each one inch long by open strip in the large piece of leather, leaving the ends of equal A piece of No. 3 rattan about nine inches long is coiled into a ring and pieces into a ring seven inches in diameter and twist the long end in often need to tie a new piece of thread or cord to a very short end. =Materials Required:= A piece of silk or ribbon, 5 inches wide by =Materials Required:= A piece of flowered silk or ribbon 5 inches Cut a piece of plain-coloured cotton eight inches long by four and a turning in the edges of both pieces for a quarter of an inch all the way id = 47200 author = nan title = Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room date = keywords = BARRY; CORNWALL; HOWITT; LOWELL; MARY; MISS; MRS; SHELLEY; Spring; WORDSWORTH; Winter; like; love summary = Come, rouse thee now;--I know thy mind, Mishap goes o''er thee like a summer cloud; All things thou art by turns, from wrath to love, Fair as the flowers themselves, as sweet and gentle. She walks in beauty, like the night Which speaks the heart so well; those deep blue eyes, While Love rains on them from her dark eye-glance. ''Tis not her eye or lip we beauty call, Oh thy love has an eye And breath like the sweets from the hawthorn tree; day; a most lovely, gentleman-like man. Is like her smile; bright, transient, heaven-refined. Like a light cloud that floats in summer air, When _Autumn_, like a faint old man, sits down And for bright shining butterflies, lovely as flowers. eyes half closed in sleep, and thy soul as a stream flowing at Whose eye was light from heaven! LADY.--One wild-flower from the path of love, id = 47760 author = nan title = Three Hundred Things a Bright Boy Can Do date = keywords = Black; Fig; King; Pawn; Queen; Rob; Roy; White; boy; end; game; good; hand; illustration; inch; line; little; long; man; paper; piece; place; position; water summary = let the hand and club move to the right, the arm being kept straight, If the water is deep, use a long float and fairly heavy lead, and fish wood, of the form in Fig. 10, 2 feet long and 3 inches deep at the passes over the paper the points pierce small round holes, sufficiently only know of one), you place the right hand a few inches above it, and $Ink Changed to Water.$--Fit a black silk lining into a glass vessel so point a little way between the two pieces of glass and so let them be square, counting from the White player''s _right_ hand, and the Black small pieces of paper and stick these on the upper left-hand corner of CROSS CUTTING.--Take a piece of writing paper about three times as half fill the glass with water, place upon its rim the blotting paper,