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The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu: A Social StudyIn preparing to submit the results of the five-months survey of Honolulus industrial conditions as they affect women and girls, the definition of a pessimist:one who has just met an optimist,has more than...

Oregon Historic Landmarks: Willamette ValleyThis building was a military blockhouse built at the Grand Ronde Indian Agency by Willamette Valley settlers in 1856. U. S. Troops were sent to the station the same year and it was named Fort Yamhill. Among the famous Army...

The Silverton StorySilverton, with all its scenic splendor, nestles in a valley 9,302 feet in altitude. It is surrounded by four mountain peaks, all of which rise above timberline, and are usually snow covered the year around; Kendall Mountain to the East, Anvil Mountain...

Industries and Inventions of the Shakers: Shaker Music, a Brief HistoryIt is rather difficult for one who has been a member of this church, to speak of the achievements of this especial group without seeming boastful, yet, we, the inheritors can justly be proud...

G. A. Selwyn, D.D.: Bishop of New Zealand and LichfieldThe life of George Augustus Selwyn has many lessons to teach us. In the position which he was called upon to fill, there were exceptional opportunities which his own natural gifts enabled him to meet...

The Geology of Darling State ParkDarling State Park, located in northeastern Vermont (see map, Burke Mountain, Fig. 1), offers outstanding opportunities to the camper, picnicker, hiker, view-seeker and winter sportsman. On a clear day the top of Burke Mountain offers a most spectacular view...

Slater's [1859] Shropshire DirectoryThis is an inland shire, bounded on the north by Cheshire and a detached portion of the Welch county of Flint; on the east by Staffordshire; on the south by the counties of Radnor, Hereford, and Worcester; and on the west...

HungerIch lag wach in meiner Dachstube und hrte eine Uhr unter mir sechs Mal schlagen; es war schon ziemlich hell und die Menschen fingen an, die Treppen auf und nieder zu steigen. Unten bei der Tre, wo mein Zimmer mit alten Nummern des Morgenblattes...

The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry - Presenting the Complete Work in a Series of Colour FacsimilesAt Bayeux in Normandy, a little town as old perhaps as our race and older certainly than our records and our religion, there is to be seen in...

Summer GuestsAll through that Saturday night, rain drummed down mercilessly and unseasonably on Sweetwater Beach. Thunder pealed and lightning flared. In between, Mel Armstrong heard the steady boom of the Pacific surf not a block from his snug little duplex apartment. Mel didn't mind...

Not Snow Nor RainOn his first day as a mail carrier, Sam Wilson noted that inscription, cribbed from Herodotus, on the General Post Office, and took it to heart: "Not snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the...

... und hätte der Liebe nicht: Weihnächtliche GeschichtenEs ist etwas Sonderbares um die Erinnerung. Sie kommt und ist da und stellt alte Zeiten vor Deine Seele; lngst vergangene, liebe Gestalten treten vor Dein Auge, und Du siehst Orte, die fern, fern liegen und hrst...

Lapset: Kuvauksia lapsille lapsistaKenraali Adlercreutzin johtama uusmaalainen rykmentti oli perytyessn venlisten edell saapunut Tampereelle. Mieliala armeijassa oli hyvin katkera sen vuoksi, ett vihollista vistettiin ja Adlercreutzin upseerit kuulivat hnen puolikovaa lausuvan ankaria lauseita sodan ylijohtajasta Klingsporista joka kerta kun uusi ksky saapui armeijan perytymisest....

Caxi Neljättä Kymmendä Satua - Suomalaisiin runoihin käätty 1775 Lukialle. 1. Ylppi Naacka ja Rijkinkukot. 2. Susi ja Lammas. 3. Coira, joca culjetti liha murua suusansa joen poicki. 4. Warpuinen ja Jnes. 5. Peura. 6. Korppi ja Kettu. 7. Nlkiset Coirat. 8. Sammacko ja...

Bad Drains; and How to Test Them - With notes on the ventilation of sewers, drains, and sanitary fittings, and the origin and transmission of zymotic diseaseThe impetus given to improvements in sanitary matters by the conferences held during last year at the Health...

La Prisonnière (Sodome et Gomorrhe III)Le texte dactylographi du prsent, qui forme le tome VI d' la recherche du temps perdu, nous avait t remis par Marcel Proust peu de temps avant sa mort. La maladie ne lui ayant pas laiss la force de...

The Lonely WarriorOn the afternoon of the fifth day of November, 1914, Edward Carroll was sitting as usual in his pleasant inner office, the windows of which looked down upon the middle-western city where Mr. Carroll had lived for forty of his fifty-six years....

The Living Animals of the World, Volume 2 (of 2) - A Popular Natural HistoryThe Ostriches are a very ancient group of birds, and, judging from what we know of their anatomy, they must be regarded as representing the most primitive of living birds....

Practical School Discipline: Introductory CourseFrom the first sting of a blackboard pointer received at the hand of a primary teacher for a slight overflow of energy, to the last serious fracture of discipline which I recall in High School, I pondered over the methods...

A Song of the Open Road, and Other VersesThough I have now known my friend Louis McQuilland for well over a dozen years I am only just beginning to understand him. It may be that he is only just beginning to understand himself. But...