Land of Sunshine, Volume 2, Issue 6F. A. Pattee & Company, 1911 Includes reports, etc., of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institutes of America. |
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Page 305 - but I've got the makings." "All right," the traveling man said. "But I can't roll 'em very well. Will you fix one for me?" The boy did. "Don't believe I've got a match," said the man, after a search through his pockets. The boy handed him a match. "Say, Captain," he said "you ain't got anything but the habit, have you?
Page 305 - A lady who owned a tortoise-shell cat called her grocer up one morning and gave her usual economical order — an order for dried beans, hominy, yesterday's bread, and so forth — and she concluded with a request for one cent's worth of cat's meat. The grocer sighed, for this order would have to be delivered three miles away — but, as he was entering the items in his order book, the lady called him up again. " Mr. Sands,
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Page 317 - Nor are these different series restricted to any special line of shapes, the fabric varieties in particular covering a most extensive range of large, medium-sized and small hats. In white felt the choice of shapes is almost as large, both in soft shapes and blocked shapes, the former including a variety in blanket felt and the latter divided between smooth cloth felt and beaver, some of which are provided ready faced with black velvet says the Millinery Trade Review.
Page 278 - ... regular enough for successful agriculture without irrigation. They present a good field for the evolution of a sedentary, agricultural stage of human culture dependent on artificial irrigation. The extent of the aboriginal ditches that can be traced for miles show that the prehistoric inhabitants had discovered and applied a more extensive system of irrigation than any of their contemporaries who dwelt in other sections of what is now the United States. Here was developed a highly organized autochthonous...
Page 317 - ... is hardly less so in the models of the leading firms, although of course these, being bound to provide their customers with greater variety, cannot confine themselves quite so much to one groove. In point of fact however, nothing promises to be so fashionable for matinee and other smart occasions as the black velvet hat trimmed with white or...
Page 317 - The preference shown for black, for white and for black and white finds ample expression in the fabric and felt shapes brought out for the opening Season. A leading novelty in plush shapes — a plush with pile so short and lying so close that at first sight it may be mistaken for a panne — is only exhibited in black and white, the facing ebing in both cases black velvet with the exception of a few white samples faced with royal blue.
Page 317 - Among the fabrics used for covering hats is a sort of very furry plush which looks for all the world like ermine. One specimen of this sort., of unusually large size, is lined with black velvet and only trimmed round the crown with a chain made of linked rings alternately black and white.
Page 321 - This interesting phenomenon is due to the change in color of the salts on the absorption of water. When dry they are blue and easily seen on paper; when damp they are pink; and when diluted, colorless.