Good Housekeeping Magazine, Volume 52

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International Magazine Company, 1911 - Home economics
 

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Page 291 - Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones, it were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Page 424 - If Americans can be divorced for "incompatibility of temper" I cannot conceive why they are not all divorced. I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
Page 389 - It represented no association, but was opened by two women, backed by many friends, in the belief that the mere foothold of a house, easily accessible, ample in space, hospitable and tolerant in spirit, situated in the midst of the large foreign colonies which so easily isolate themselves in American cities, would be in itself a serviceable thing for Chicago. Hull House endeavors to make social intercourse express the growing sense of the economic unity of society. It is an effort to add the social...
Page 557 - ... thereabouts, but I am sorry to say that I have no pictorial or other record of their physical and moral excellencies. The present occupant of the throne is a large, young, grey Tabby — Oliver by name. Not that he is in any sense a protector, for I doubt whether he has the heart to kill a mouse.
Page 775 - Then he proceeds to know by a ten days' trial — leaving off greasy meats, pasty, sticky and starchy half-cooked cereals, white bread and pastry, and adopting a plain, nourishing diet. Many men who really know use the following breakfast : Some fruit, a saucer of Grape-Nuts and cream, soft-boiled eggs, some nice crisp toast, and a cup of Postum — nothing more. The result is certain gain toward health. "There's a Reason" Get the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville," in packages of Grape-Nuts...
Page 419 - ... and that book's date ? I have a life in CHRIST to live, I have a death in CHRIST to die ;— And must I wait, till science give All doubts a full reply ? Nay rather, while the sea of doubt Is raging wildly round about, Questioning of life and death and sin, Let me but creep within Thy fold, O CHRIST, and at Thy feet Take but the lowest seat, And hear Thine awful voice repeat In gentlest accents, heavenly sweet, Come unto Me, and rest: Believe Me, and be blest.
Page 389 - To provide a center for a higher civic and social life, to initiate and maintain religious, educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago.
Page 763 - Our experiments showed that when the two sugars were equally pure, there was no difference in the texture, taste, or appearance of jellies made therefrom. The only difference observed was that the volume of jelly produced from a given amount of juice and sugar was slightly less when beet sugar was used than when cane sugar was used. This difference being considered negligible, the two sugars may be used interchangeably.
Page 389 - The social and educational activities of a Settlement are but differing manifestations of the attempt to socialize democracy, as is the existence of the settlement itself.
Page 424 - ... which is a fault or, at least, an ignominy. The essential element is not so much duration as security. Two people must be tied together in order to do themselves justice; for twenty minutes at a dance, or for twenty years in a marriage. In both cases the point is, that if a man is bored in the first five minutes he must go on and force himself to be happy. Coercion is a kind of encouragement; and anarchy (or what some call liberty) is essentially oppressive, because it is essentially discouraging.

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