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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 132 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 50751 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 83 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56 illustration 33 Mr. 28 man 27 game 24 good 23 hand 21 New 19 time 19 ball 18 play 17 England 16 place 15 little 14 St. 14 Club 13 player 13 card 13 King 12 York 10 american 10 Mrs. 10 John 9 water 9 child 9 Queen 9 London 8 paper 8 line 8 end 8 God 7 table 7 great 7 Miss 7 Fig 6 number 6 french 6 day 6 dance 6 cut 6 chapter 6 Tom 6 Sir 6 Lord 6 League 6 George 6 Chicago 6 CHAPTER 6 Boston 5 word 5 trick Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 13009 game 12096 time 11870 hand 10921 man 10304 player 9971 card 9830 ball 7197 day 6753 side 6533 way 5950 one 5912 illustration 5624 club 5326 end 5292 line 5222 place 5193 year 4947 foot 4567 position 4448 point 4383 water 4329 course 4139 part 4031 piece 4024 p 3977 number 3974 thing 3905 case 3790 hole 3563 trick 3535 head 3449 play 3410 work 3387 table 3375 inch 3325 paper 3190 p. 3040 b 2986 child 2913 boy 2792 name 2680 boat 2637 r 2610 fact 2587 rule 2573 word 2560 team 2540 ground 2519 order 2500 golf Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 38177 _ 22430 | 7617 Kt 6056 Mr. 5323 B 5311 K 4521 K. 3338 Q 3211 Q. 2972 B. 2770 White 2734 P 2595 Black 2582 P. 2424 New 2355 R 2242 King 2179 Fig 2178 |---------------------------------------| 2041 R. 1981 York 1977 Alfred 1763 St. 1759 Club 1606 Queen 1577 H. 1563 . 1525 Mrs. 1456 # 1413 ^P 1392 Paul 1338 Miss 1323 W. 1280 J. 1280 C. 1229 London 1215 England 1114 Chicago 1101 Boston 1054 John 1004 FIG 986 Pawn 963 E. 915 Royal 864 G. 860 League 848 ch 813 M. 801 Louis 775 A. Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 60568 it 42656 he 28036 i 25344 you 18968 they 14168 we 12662 them 12102 him 5599 she 5001 me 3447 us 2896 himself 2342 her 1885 one 1408 themselves 1057 itself 759 yourself 718 myself 331 herself 254 ourselves 111 ''em 97 mine 92 yours 89 thee 85 his 58 ours 51 ''s 49 oneself 37 theirs 28 ye 20 hers 18 em 15 hymself 13 yourselves 12 yf 11 thyself 8 ourself 8 kt2 6 yerself 6 jus 5 you''ll 5 yo 5 u 4 vp 3 yureself 3 yu 3 yew 3 yaw 3 y 3 themself Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 229698 be 57575 have 20680 do 19995 make 15778 take 10512 play 9643 give 9211 say 9131 go 8639 see 7621 come 7001 get 6505 find 6466 know 5954 use 5321 hold 4970 call 4780 put 4706 show 4694 keep 4680 follow 4475 win 4285 place 4273 leave 3755 think 3754 stand 3629 bring 3599 turn 3546 pass 3462 run 3410 become 3387 look 3120 lose 3066 begin 3017 tell 2950 let 2906 cut 2884 draw 2808 seem 2604 try 2590 carry 2522 lead 2329 throw 2247 hit 2176 appear 2130 allow 2118 require 2083 start 2040 fall 1941 reach Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 32828 not 12676 so 11929 good 11924 then 11511 up 11150 other 10819 more 10808 first 10555 very 9602 well 9102 out 8438 only 7385 great 7339 little 7170 as 6873 now 6559 most 6430 same 6229 long 6157 much 6137 many 4859 down 4820 right 4739 also 4737 old 4496 such 4250 small 4208 never 4179 even 4118 too 3920 back 3812 always 3806 again 3683 second 3596 large 3551 just 3418 own 3417 last 3325 few 3317 off 3274 however 3266 on 3176 next 3160 far 3142 here 3133 high 3015 away 2946 still 2853 once 2780 in Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4344 good 1466 most 1135 least 823 great 614 high 293 low 276 large 258 fine 220 bad 219 Most 213 early 205 slight 201 near 186 small 165 strong 156 simple 143 old 141 long 119 eld 112 easy 93 late 78 short 78 hard 64 fast 54 full 52 big 47 safe 47 few 40 weak 39 quick 39 heavy 39 deep 38 young 38 keen 34 fair 30 cheap 28 poor 27 sure 26 close 25 wide 25 pleasant 25 common 24 rich 24 light 23 wise 23 nice 23 happy 21 wild 21 clever 21 bright Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5093 most 417 well 314 least 17 hard 11 near 10 highest 5 fast 3 youngest 3 oldest 3 long 3 finest 2 lowest 2 greatest 2 biggest 1 vest 1 unblest 1 tricks:-- 1 sternpost 1 soon 1 smartest 1 quick 1 meanest 1 lest 1 l154,000 1 figures:-- 1 fiercest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 www.gutenberg.net 4 www.gutenberg.org 2 www.lawsonsprogress.com 2 archive.org 1 www.pgdpcanada.net 1 memory.loc.gov 1 digital.library.villanova.edu Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 2 http://www.lawsonsprogress.com 1 http://www.pgdpcanada.net 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42278/42278-h/42278-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42278/42278-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39445/39445-h/39445-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39445/39445-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/6/3/27635/27635-h/27635-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/6/3/27635/27635-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/3/1/27318/27318-h/27318-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/3/1/27318/27318-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/6/0/19652/19652-h/19652-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/9/6/0/19652/19652-h.zip 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/1/6/5/9/16599/16599-h/16599-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/5/9/16599/16599-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/3/1/16316/16316-h/16316-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/3/1/16316/16316-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/0/2/13022/13022-h/13022-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/0/2/13022/13022-h.zip 1 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html 1 http://digital.library.villanova.edu/) 1 http://archive.org/details/toymakingathomeh00adamiala 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50 kt takes p 44 _ see _ 41 game goes on 33 one does not 31 kt takes kt 28 _ is _ 27 ball is not 24 game is not 24 kt takes b 24 one is not 23 k. takes b. 21 k. takes kt 20 k. takes p. 20 k. takes r. 19 cards are then 17 * do not 17 cards are not 17 player does not 17 players do not 16 hand is not 15 _ left _ 15 game is over 15 hand take up 15 players are not 14 _ do _ 14 _ do n''t 14 card turned up 13 ball does not 13 hand does not 13 player is not 12 _ are _ 12 card is not 12 cards are now 12 game is very 12 hand is then 11 game is also 10 game is similar 10 man is not 9 _ was _ 9 club is not 9 game is even 9 game was over 9 k. takes q. 8 _ do not 8 ball is then 8 card is then 8 clubs are trumps 8 day is not 8 days gone by 8 game is equal Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 _ do not _ 3 one is not likely 2 ball is not dead 2 cards have no index 2 hand does not thereby 2 hand is not unlikely 2 k has no possible 2 man was not palmer 2 one does not always 2 one does not often 2 one is not able 2 one is not very 2 player has no right 2 player is not only 1 * make no overt 1 _ are no more 1 _ be not less 1 _ did not immediately 1 _ do not often 1 _ do not simply 1 _ do not thereafter 1 _ does not _ 1 _ has no desire 1 _ has no equal 1 _ has no less 1 _ is no use 1 _ is not amiss 1 _ is not prime 1 _ is not seen).--a 1 _ is not sufficiently 1 _ is not wide 1 _ shows no more 1 _ was no more 1 _ was not blue 1 _ was not present 1 b has no more 1 ball are not satisfied 1 ball being no light 1 ball does no injury 1 ball does not actually 1 ball does not always 1 ball does not really 1 ball had no sooner 1 ball has no great 1 ball is not as 1 ball is not here 1 ball is not intentionally 1 ball shows no disinclination 1 balls are not heavy 1 balls are not really A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 42278 author = Adams, Morley title = Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends date = keywords = FIG; cut; end; glue; illustration; piece summary = _Colour Wheel._--Take a piece of white cardboard, and from it cut a pieces of cigar-box wood, a rectangular base, two sides cut as shown, cardboard foundation is made according to Fig. 21, and the matches cut cardboard wheels secured in position by means of "doll pins" (Fig. 23); is cut as shown in Fig. 28, and glued to the front edge of the match pegs and a piece of wood for a base (Fig. 44). body, and about one inch from each end, glue two pieces of wood to which Fix the wheels to these pieces by means of pins (Fig. 51). you can quite easily cut from an old piece of fairly thick tin (Fig. 54). be drawn on a piece of cigar-box wood, and then carefully cut out with a you can fix the strings to a piece of wood as shown in Fig. 82, you will id = 36513 author = Ainslie, Arthur title = Water Wizardry: A collection of tricks in which water is the chief agent date = keywords = bowl; card; conjurer; glass; hand; illustration; trick; water summary = The trick is to drink the water, but in order to get the glass to your The trick is to pour the water into the empty glass and drink it, Pour some water into a glass and cover it with an opera hat. The performer pours water from the bottle into the glass; in fact, he The trick is, of course, to make the glass of water and the bottle Unknown to the audience the conjurer uses two bottles for this trick and In presenting this trick the conjurer begins by showing two small bowls right hand and pour some of the water into the faked bowl. If the conjurer uses a glass bowl he should have the water in a large The conjurer holds the card in his left hand with its face towards the takes the card in that hand and holds it over the jug of water, while id = 17289 author = Anonymous title = The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. date = keywords = B.C.; British; Museum; century; dance; dancing; fig; illustration summary = [Illustration: Fig. 2.--Greek figures in a solemn dance. [Illustration: Fig. 4.--Egyptian hieroglyphic for "dance."] [Illustration: Fig. 8.--Dance of Bacchantes, painted by the ceramic [Illustration: Fig. 9.--Dancing Bacchante. [Illustration: Fig. 10.--Greek terra cotta dancing girl, about 350 [Illustration: Fig. 21.--Etruscan dancing and performances. [Illustration: Fig. 22.--Etruscan Dancing. [Illustration: Fig. 24.--Funeral dance. [Illustration: Fig. 25.--Funeral dance from the same tomb.] [Illustration: Fig. 29.--Gleemen''s dance, 9th century. [Illustration: Fig. 30.--Dancing to horn and pipe. [Illustration: Fig. 32.--Sword dance to bagpipes, 14th century. [Illustration: Fig. 36.--A, man dancing and playing pipes, carrying a [Illustration: Fig. 37.--Italian dance. [Illustration: Fig. 38.--Italian dancing, the end of the 15th [Illustration: Fig. 39.--Chamber dance, 15th century. [Illustration: Fig. 42.--Comic dance to pipe and tabor, end of 15th [Illustration: Fig. 44.--Dancing angels. [Illustration: Fig. 47.--Scenes from dances. [Illustration: Fig. 51.--Court dance. [Illustration: Fig. 53.--Country dance. [Illustration: Fig. 55.--A dance in the 18th century. [Illustration: Fig. 59.--Dancing. id = 32753 author = Anonymous title = Croquet: As played by the Newport Croquet Club date = keywords = ball; bridge; play; roquet; tour summary = It consists in placing the playing ball in contact with the roqueted ball under the arch of the first bridge and plays at the stake. for the second bridge, and, having run it, plays at the other ball runs it his tour still continues, and he may play for the next bridge, roqueted ball; or it may croquet it and then play, attempting the proper CASE.--A ball roquets another and on the same blow runs its bridge; the CASE.--A misplaying ball runs a bridge after croqueting its partner CASE.--A ball makes roquet and runs a bridge at the same shot. roquet-croquet from another ball, cannot be declined, and the next step CASE.--A runs a bridge and roquets a ball. of tour, croquet, or playing from the side of the roqueted ball; and in _A ball running the last bridge by a direct blow of the mallet must Author of the "Rollo Books," "Florence Stories," "American id = 9177 author = Anonymous title = The Royal Game of the Ombre Written at the Request of divers Honourable Persons—1665 date = keywords = Game summary = they are Trumps) the least small Cards of the Red are alwayes best, and The End of the Game is (as at Beast) to win most Tricks; whence he who can either Codillio or Repuesto, and the Player loses and makes good the each of them win three Tricks the piece; in which case the Player doubles One is never to play unless he have three sure Tricks in his hand at When one has a sure Game in his hand, he is to play without taking or Counters, as he is to give them, if he play without taking in, a Game keep their best Cards, which else seeing you win five Tricks (or the Spadillio, and he player his lesser Trump upon it and wins your Basto _Of the Players playing his game for his best advantage_ Tricks to see what Cards are played beside the Ombre, or he who playes the id = 19652 author = Anson, Adrian Constantine title = A Ball Player''s Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson date = keywords = Anson; Association; Athletics; Boston; Brooklyn; Chicago; City; Cleveland; Club; Francisco; Hotel; League; Louis; Marshalltown; Mr.; Mrs.; National; New; Philadelphia; Rockford; San; Spalding; St.; Wright; York; american; ball; game summary = Late Manager and Captain of the Chicago Base Ball Club shot, a good ball player and a man that could play a game of billiards organized club in Massachusetts playing the present style of base-ball game in 1861, ''62 and ''63 and but little base-ball was played, many scattered the members of the Chicago Base Ball club far and wide and base-ball games that were played on the trip, while the first-named success of the American base-ball players in cricket, a game in which ball player among the Argonauts, he having played the game for twenty From that time on the Providence Club played great ball, the wonderful the season in October the club in games with Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City and Washington won 13, lost 3 and had two draws. the night before--that we played our second game of base-ball in id = 37165 author = Bates, Loïs title = Games Without Music for Children date = keywords = child; game; hand; hold; illustration summary = _Verse 2._ A child brings a little tray, and, walking round the table, (The teacher, if facing the children, should use the left hand for should use her _left_ hand each time the children use the right.) teacher stands facing the children, her _left_ hand is opposite to their the children must be little travellers, and come walking up the The children join hands and stand round to form a ''house'' and ''garden'' Two children come walking quickly down the ''street'' towards the ''house,'' Children enter carriage, waving hands to ''mother,'' and saying: children, as the spoon is handed to each child. The children form a ring, joining hands, and one child sits in the This game may be played by four children, each standing at a corner, The two children named then come out, and joining hands with the line If the game is played by the children elsewhere, they will id = 46093 author = Bazancourt, César Lecat, baron de title = Secrets of the Sword date = keywords = Comte; attack; blade; fence; hand; illustration; man; opponent; parry; point; sword; time summary = of hand and precision of movement, whether in attack, parry, or "The third is fencing considered from the point of view of practical to engage swords by the rules of the game; only bad fencers attempt to ''You attack in the low lines, perhaps you hit your opponent below the Quite true, the hit would be fatal in a duel, but in sword-play about sword-play, and I shall try to find time to turn them over." because I have fenced too often with fencers good and bad not to know movement of an attack, when you think you know exactly what is coming, the fencing room:--Your opponent delivers an attack which you parry; to our opponent''s point; we therefore cannot bring our left hand into opponent renews the attack hesitates to strike a second time one who saw the opponent''s point coming straight at my friend''s body. id = 44215 author = Beard, Daniel Carter title = The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft date = keywords = Boy; COUNCIL; Figs; Indians; LAY; North; american; axe; camp; chapter; fig; fire; good; horse; illustration; man; pack; place; saddle; tree; wood summary = Fig. 33 shows the gun-lock of an old musket; the hammer holds a piece With their axe they split a pine log (Fig. 42), then cut it into sticks Fig. 40 shows the proper way to use the knife in splitting a stick, so each wire having its ends carefully bent in the form of a hook (Fig. 82), which may be adjusted over two green sticks resting upon two log notches cut in C stick at E (Fig. 95), and the bottom ends of which are as fire-dogs, or the sticks may be placed in the turkey-lay (Fig. 100), The tail of the nag is made out of an old piece of frayed rope (Fig. 173), with a knot tied in one end to prevent the tail from pulling when one has no pack saddle like Fig. 200. In selecting camping ground, look for a place where good water and wood 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 = 33120 author = Berry, Elmer title = The Forward Pass in Football date = keywords = forward; game; pass; play summary = ten yards and the forward pass came and the "new" game was created. and the forward pass as the fundamentals the modern game of football has successful forward passing game. The first fundamental of a successful forward passing game is that the The first fundamental of a successful forward passing game is that the The first fundamental of a successful forward passing game is that the forward pass should be used as a _regular ground gaining_ play and not with the passer fifteen yards behind his own offensive line, the pass forward pass play should aim to get as many eligible men as possible _every man on the team has something to do on a forward pass_. just as important on a forward pass play that each eligible man know SUGGESTIVE FORWARD PASS FORMATIONS AND PLAYS. SUGGESTIVE FORWARD PASS FORMATIONS AND PLAYS. principles upon which a successful forward passing game may be built. id = 32838 author = Bicket, James title = The Canadian Curler''s Manual Or, an account of curling, as practised in Canada: with remarks on the history of the game date = keywords = Club; Curling; Toronto; play; stone summary = CURLING.--Is a Game played upon the ice, by sliding stones, made for the this side the stone is played when the ice is hard and keen; the other, castings of iron, in the shape of Curling Stones, are played with--the the rink, called the "hog-score," and stones which on being played do PLAYING.--When the player is about to throw his stones, he places rink, with one stone each, eight players on each side; and a game so to his first player how he wishes his stone to be played. plays one stone alternately, and the object of each successive player is When the stones are all played to one end of the rink, the game is Toronto Club usually play for 31, in a regular game; and in their _End_--That portion of the game in which the stones are all played _Rink_--The ice on which the game is played. id = 4902 author = Bird, H. E. (Henry Edward) title = Chess History and Reminiscences date = keywords = Anderssen; B.C.; Bird; Blackburne; Charlemagne; Chess; Dr.; England; Forbes; India; King; Mason; Morphy; Mr.; Persia; Philidor; Sir; Staunton; Steinitz; William; Zukertort; game summary = THE GAME OF CHESS, (SUMMARY OR BIRD''S EYE VIEW) The public record of chess matches and great tournaments places players, and all games of chance, except Chess or Draughts, works, that for the first source of chess or any game with pieces time not a good recorded game or page of connected chess history game of chess was invented in India, some time previous to the Barbiere 1640, in his work, "The famous game of chess play," The famous game of chesse play, "Being a princely exercise "Being one evening present when a game of chess was playing. the writer of this article, as King of all chess-players, who lived themselves played chess or were spectators of the game. collection of the games he has played without looking over the chess Some chess players make more lively games than others, and term for games played on a chess board, rather than a id = 36557 author = Blaikie, William title = How to Get Strong and How to Stay So date = keywords = April; Bryant; Dr.; Maclaren; New; Sargent; September; York; chest; day; exercise; man; muscle; time; work; year summary = to bring up the weak and unused parts, and then by general work daily man in the life-race as a little duller head and a good deal better body. these exercises is more than almost any flat-chested, half-developed girl If the man who habitually works too long without a rest would every hour directly every muscle of the hand, wrist, arm, shoulder, chest, But a little time each day is needed, never over half an hour of actual been found that a man once strong needs but little work daily to keep that with but a little time given each day to the work. Any man, or any horse, might well hold that a good day''s work. In all exercises for these muscles, indeed in all foot-work, shoes work this time, and by applying to that of one arm in action the hand of id = 28028 author = Bone, David Drummond title = Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches date = keywords = Association; Bob; Clydesdale; Cup; England; Football; Glasgow; Hampden; International; Leven; Mr.; Park; Q.P.; Queen; Rangers; Renton; STREET; Scotland; Vale summary = code of rules to encourage the game of Football, and matches were played comparatively young, and was chosen to play for his club against England kept goal for his new combination against the Queen''s Park in a cup tie, up the ball to goal, provided the match was against a much weaker club, on the ground at Queen''s Park to see his brother Edward playing with old cup tie with the Vale of Leven, when that club beat the Queen''s Park by not the first time I have seen a match played with one of the clubs a history of Association football some of the best players ever Scotland The Vale of Leven at the time this tie was played had a rare forward left-wing forward, and played a fine game. it, the young Queen''s Park forward made Scotland one goal up. Association football clubs than all the other games in Scotland put id = 19230 author = Boyton, Paul title = The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World date = keywords = Baby; Balbo; Boyton; CHAPTER; Cape; Captain; City; Count; Doctor; English; France; General; Indians; Lima; Mr.; New; Paul; Queen; St.; Stockie; Tom; York; american; boat; chilean; day; find; french; great; little; look; man; river; time; water summary = The day was lovely; the water lay clear and blue in sight and Paul could Paul would cut through the water like a young shark, and swim with it services, presented Paul with a little flat boat about twelve feet The Captain found a letter waiting from Mrs. Boyton requesting that Paul Captain took Paul out to see the great city. Paul''s father, a traveling man, came home a few days after this. "Little boy, do you want a job?" Paul said he did and was put to work. All day long the Captain, Betsy and Paul The captain of Paul''s company at this time was an officer The following Sunday morning the captain called Paul down and told him next day the captain sent for Paul and they had a long talk. he received a letter addressed, as follows: Sir Captain Paul Boyton a id = 27353 author = Branson, L. H. (Lionel Hugh) title = Indian Conjuring date = keywords = Jadoo; Mahommed; illustration; indian; stick; trick; water summary = rope trick that I have ever seen performed Shah Mahommed performing the egg bag trick Facing page 52 A neat little trick that can be performed by anybody who takes the A surprising little trick was once shewn to me by a performer whose The only rope trick I have ever seen performed by an Indian conjuror, The only rope trick that I have ever seen performed in India.] [Illustration: Shah Mahommed performing the Egg bag trick.] I will now describe the mango trick as I have seen it performed many trick being performed, let them take a copy of this little book and This ends the trick, though on occasions the performer orders the lad explanations while the tricks are being performed. trick performed, though in no instance do they give the place or the other persons who saw the trick done at that time and place. id = 11883 author = Burt, Emily Rose title = Entertaining Made Easy date = keywords = girl; guest; japanese; little; paper; party; shower; table; wedding; white summary = _Apple_: Little round bowl-like cap of glossy red paper with a brown A girl who wanted to give an inexpensive jolly little party in honor One teacher planned a very happy May party for her little boy and girl paper skirt, orange, green, blue or pink, to match the color of the When it was refreshment time, cunning little girl friends of the Tea, sandwiches and little cakes may be served in the dining-room place a tiny white plush cat with the child''s name on a paper tied to hot, which can be served to resemble ice cream in little paper cases. After the sandwiches came little pink and green and white frosted Toward the end of the ice-cream course the hostess asked the guests to white tissue paper and tied with old-rose ribbon, and they were At each girl''s place was a tiny china cat with a yellow ribbon bow on id = 21642 author = Cadogan, Adelaide, Lady title = Lady Cadogan''s Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games date = keywords = Rule; card summary = Deal out the entire pack in packets of three cards dealt together and kings form the foundation cards, the aces ascending in sequence to to place one card from any of the other packets (Rule I) on each king, When the first line is placed, play any suitable cards, and then marry play all suitable cards (Rule I), and then marry in a descending line played, form the foundation cards, and are to descend in sequence to When you have played all available cards and placed in sequence all The eight aces form the foundation cards and ascend in sequence to The eight aces form the foundation cards and ascend in sequence to pack in hand, proceed to place cards in sequence in the valley (Rules Cards from the pack or talon may also be placed in sequence (Rule III) pack, playing on the foundations, placing aces in the reserved space in 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 = 12430 author = Calthrop, S. R. (Samuel Robert) title = A Lecture on Physical Development, and its Relations to Mental and Spiritual Development, delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at their Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, in Norwich, Conn., August 20, 1858 date = keywords = God; Human; Nature; love; world; young summary = theme, some small portion of the nature and method of Human Development. the devotional,--or in other words, that man has body, mind, heart, with the mind, heart, conscience, and soul of man, not merely to all always will do to the world''s end, while Human Nature remains the same. Devotion, then, and conscience need a loving, human heart. Devotion says, Worship; the Mind adds, The Lord thy God. The Conscience thy fellow-men; the Intellect tells the right way of loving them. Why, a fast young man at an English University too often learns no good fact is, that I have a theory that Nature loves young men and boys, and upon us has fallen the task of developing the whole of man,--body, mind, Human Nature to the world in which it is placed. that young Human Nature has its due. thou, in thy little corner of the great world, for all Human Nature. id = 35683 author = Cameron, John title = Association Football, and How To Play It date = keywords = Cup; League; ball; game; great; illustration; play; player summary = game, and such a spirit will carry any club or player right to the The penalty kick plays an important part in the game of to-day, other day with a player who has played a great deal there, he said the game is another question, but often a player knows that if he plays an Number of Players.--Field of Play.--The Ball. 1. The game should be played by eleven players on each side. on the touch line facing the field of play, and shall throw the ball in 7. When the ball is played behind the goal line by a player of the of the referee) shall be to decide when the ball is out of play, and touch or behind the goal line before it is played by a player, the The ball shall be in play when the kick is time by the player who takes the penalty kick until it has been played id = 39743 author = Camp, Walter title = American Football date = keywords = american; ball; half; illustration; line; man; play summary = that the half-backs are, like our quarter, the ones to seize the ball ball will come directly into his hands to be passed for a run or a kick. always get the ball and pass it while the men who kicked it were still ruled that a man must not change his position after the ball was opponent until the quarter should have passed the ball in safety, the combination passes in which the ball was handed to the end rusher, who, be quite sure that the opponents will not play the ball from touch When the opponents have the ball and are about to kick, the tackle is upon the men at the point of the V, they pass by the man with the ball ball in play at the right time, and properly, is a great achievement, When the opponents have the ball, the quarter makes an extra man in or id = 46067 author = Caulfeild, Vivian title = How To Ski and How Not To date = keywords = Christiania; FIG; Plate; Telemark; illustration; run; ski; snow; turn summary = Jumping round to the left: bad position of skis. of the Stemming turn and Christiania; fast straight-running; jumping, need not mind taking a fall at this speed; moreover, to quote from Mr. Richardson''s excellent jumping chapter in "The Ski-Runner," "the first in turning the right ski, but _keep the left foot quite close to the When a ski running straight downhill is made to turn by "edging," the the right ski and place it on the snow, pointing straight downhill, its turning until the right ski points slightly uphill, when you will come ski _before_ it begins to stem at all, and making it turn downhill by Turn the right knee and foot a little inwards, placing the front ski _Downhill Turn to the Left._--In this use of the swing the skis are in the normal running position is then on the right ski, and the left id = 10672 author = Caxton, William title = Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 date = keywords = Blades; Caxton; Chess; Colonna; Dr.; Footnote; Game; Iuge; John; Linde; Mr.; St.; alle; ben; book; cessole; fore; french; good; grete; haue; hit; hym; illustration; kynge; man; moche; ought; peple; right; sayd; shold; suche; theyr; thou; thynge; whan; whiche; wyth; y''e summary = hit is to be beleuyd and credible that whan the kynge is a good man wold/ And they asligned to hym a wyse man named Aristides/ And whan he That whan men brought hym the crowne/ to fore that he toke hit/ he than for to laboure to haue hit and to put hym self therin/ Thus ought ought to loue to moche his lyf/ For hit is a fowll thynge for a man to a wyse man to do ony thynge that he may repente hym of hit/ And he ought man named Taffile whiche herde one his frende requyre of hym a thynge taken to hem to kepe/ And whan they ben requyred to repaye hit they haue the kynge whan he seeth to fore hym suche peple as ben folelarge and in despite a noble man that is poure yf he haue not in hym good maners 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 = 36219 author = Coup, W. C. (William Cameron) title = Sawdust & Spangles: Stories & Secrets of the Circus date = keywords = America; Aquarium; Barnum; Coup; Dan; Jumbo; Mr.; New; Texas; York; animal; circus; day; elephant; great; horse; life; little; man; old; showman; time summary = Wild West shows and trained animal exhibitions baby elephant, one day seeing the men shoveling to throw up a ring great New York Aquarium enterprise I remember having one day figured up In capturing wild animals the rule is to kill the old ones and secure circus men remember it as the "White Elephant Year." For many years of the circus attachés thought they had seen the man exhibiting the A few weeks before the time for opening the circus season the horses with toppling chariots, with horses, animals, elephants, camels and the entire old-time circus canvases, when the advertising was done by A great circus uses large quantities of advertising paper--so much, in advertise, like a circus, and in the eyes of the general public pass The advertising agents for a large circus of the present day would, no of the advertising men who traveled in advance of the old-time wagon id = 19065 author = Dalton, Frank Eugen title = Swimming Scientifically Taught: A Practical Manual for Young and Old date = keywords = FIGURE; Fig; Stroke; arm; illustration; leg; position; water summary = The Breast Stroke--The Leg Movement Exemplified Out of the Water 44 head-first through the water, as in the back stroke, the pupil goes feet first to combine the two arm and leg movements, but practise makes From position on the back as in Fig. 5, roll over on the right side, lifting the left arm out of the water so Movement II.--Lift the left arm out of the water, at the same time enough roll of the body to allow the right arm to come out of the water _Leg Strokes._--Extend the arms at full length in front of the head with Having learned the arm and leg movements with the breathing, it is now the game of water polo, also, this method of swimming is practised a position as in the breast stroke, the legs and arms together, The body should first be allowed to float on the water, with the arms id = 44623 author = Darwin, Bernard title = The Golf Courses of the British Isles date = keywords = Andrews; Club; Hoylake; Mr.; Park; Sandwich; St.; ball; bunker; course; golf; good; green; hole; illustration; long; play; shot; tee summary = short holes add a crowning glory to a golf course, and that, I think, good two-shot hole is the sixth, where the green lies in the angle of second shot played by Braid out of the left-hand bunker in the final a long short hole; a wooden club shot is often needed, and when that It is the duty of every golf course to have a good seventeenth hole, about the last hole, where we must hit two good, long, straight shots; almost the best hole on the course, and certainly the tee-shot is the The course begins very well with a fine, long, two-shot hole, a little we finish with a good two-shot hole on to a fine big green in front Three good two-shot holes begin the course: the second and third being hole, if we play two good shots, and then an easy drive and pitch down id = 32368 author = De Caston, Herbert title = Peerless Prestidigitation Being a collection of entirely new ideas and effects in the fascinating art of modern magic date = keywords = card; handkerchief; performer; place summary = pack whilst held in the hand of the performer, who turns his head away the performer drops the cards face _upwards_ upon the table, and, to table and the five cards handed to the performer, he asks for one of cards rise from the pack whilst held in the performer''s hand, and when conjurer palms off all the selected cards and hands the pack out to be cause the egg to leave the handkerchief and appear in his hand, and the handkerchief, and performer then calls attention to the egg on the the spectator to place his hand on his (performer''s), he brings his performer--eventually placing it in the left hand (back to audience) open out handkerchief, and in centre in place of the egg he finds When you go to take egg, remove with left hand and place small _fêke_ containing white silk handkerchief in left hand. id = 16599 author = Draper, George Orrin title = School, Church, and Home Games date = keywords = Ans; Race; circle; game; hand; line; number; place; player; tag; team summary = one, that one takes his place in the circle and the game continues. The third man of team A continues the game by starting another word. Players stand in groups of three--two facing one another with hands A blindfolded player takes his place in the center of the group which having the greatest number of players at the end of that time, wins. players succeed in placing three of his marks in a straight line, The team having the most points at the end wins the game. endeavors to tag the players as they run between the goal lines. players on its side of the line wins the game. are placed on the distance line opposite the position of each team. at the distance line and returns and tags off the next player, who returns, handing the stick to the next player on his team behind the The last player on each team ends the race id = 27635 author = Dudeney, Henry Ernest title = The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems date = keywords = Abbot; Friar; Hugh; Mr.; Professor; Puzzle; Riddle; Sir; illustration; man; number; square summary = cut into a certain number of pieces that will fit together and form Again, we can never measure exactly in numbers the diagonal of a square. interesting problem to count the number of squares that may be formed on different ways they may be placed in the four bags." The good man puzzle is to discover the total number of pilgrims. Now, the puzzle is to find the smallest possible number of Can you construct a square of sixteen different numbers so that it shall dogs on every side of the square, the number of different ways is (_n_^4 The answer to this puzzle is shown in the illustration, where the numbers Where the number of squares on the same row, between the man or without difficulty the six pieces, as shown in the numbered square on the The answer to our puzzle in smallest possible numbers is as follows:-- id = 41973 author = Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of title = Yachting, Vol. 2 date = keywords = August; Bay; Britannia; Calluna; Captain; Club; Clyde; Commodore; Cumberland; Cup; Fleet; George; Island; John; July; June; Lord; Mr.; Navahoe; New; Queen; R.Y.S.; Royal; Satanita; Thames; Valkyrie; Vigilant; Water; Yacht; York; american; illustration summary = CHART OF THE ROYAL BOMBAY YACHT CLUB SAILING COURSE CHART OF THE ROYAL IRISH YACHT CLUB, DUBLIN BAY COURSES reported of the new Royal yacht, ''Splendid sea-boat, and rode out the [Illustration: International Gold Cup, Royal Victoria Yacht Club, yachts which sailed in the first match of the club, Monday, June 16, When the year 1867 closed the Clyde Yacht Club''s first racing decade, [Illustration: Royal Forth Yacht Club Courses.] [Illustration: Royal St George''s Yacht Club, Dublin Bay.] [Illustration: Start of 25-tonners, Royal Thames Yacht Club, from at Lowestoft, one meets great numbers of yachts and sailing boats, and small yachts and sailing boats; and as for racing, I really think that sailed twenty-six races in the New York Yacht Club, and won ten yachting clubs wherever a handful of boats could be found with owners fleet of small yachts and of boats for sailing and cruising which from id = 34180 author = Edge, Frederick Milnes title = The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion date = keywords = Anderssen; Birmingham; Chess; Club; England; Europe; George; Harrwitz; Herr; Illustrated; London; Löwenthal; Morphy; Mr.; New; Paris; Paul; St.; Staunton summary = Shortly after my arrival in London, I called upon the Secretary of the St. George''s Chess Club, Thomas Hampton, Esq., and introduced myself to him. our city, and there meet Mr. Paul Morphy in a chess match. alternate games, and the London chess world consequently measured Morphy''s Herr Löwenthal did not regard his play with Morphy at New Orleans as any Morphy his due; before the final game in the match was played, he said to The majority of his games in London, Morphy played at the Divan. When Morphy declared his intention, in London, to play eight games Paul Morphy''s principal object in coming to Europe was to play a match years, withdrawn from the chess arena, and his play with Morphy did not, of the week, Paul Morphy received a private communication from Mr. Staunton, as follows:-1. Mr. Morphy came to Europe to play Mr. Staunton. id = 18048 author = Edwards, William H. (William Hanford) title = Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball date = keywords = Andover; Army; Bill; Brown; Camp; Cornell; Harvard; Haven; Jim; Johnny; Lawrenceville; Navy; New; Pennsylvania; Poe; Point; Princeton; University; Varsity; West; Yale; football; game; illustration; man; play; team summary = Mrs. Walter Camp, Head Coaches of the Yale Football Team in time Yale players relate incidents of the days when they played under team behind the line were in favor of a running mass play game, with an old football player watching a Princeton game. Yale team during the time I was playing, but his work in some later "It is a great thing to play the game of football as hard as you can. "The first Princeton-Yale game in 1873 being played under the old year has passed since he played his last game of football but has seen perhaps in all football, when the team that played the year before came The first game I ever saw the Princeton Team play was with Harvard in in the Harvard-Yale game of 1898; Charlie de Saulles'' great playing with out in a game in the four years he played football. Yale football teams that ever played. id = 38120 author = Elwell, J. B. (Joseph Bowne) title = Bridge Axioms and Laws date = keywords = Bridge; card summary = Honours are ace, king, queen, knave, and ten of the trump suit; or the If the right-hand adversary of the dealer double before his partner has right-hand adversary of the dealer double before his partner has asked If the right-hand adversary of the dealer lead out of turn, the maker of Before exposing his cards, the dealer''s partner has all the rights of a A card from the dealer''s hand is not played until actually quitted; but adversaries should play on the table the best card, or lead one which is A player may ask his partner whether he has not a card of the suit which in fault be one of the dealer''s adversaries, the card played in error is Any player during the play of a trick, or after the four cards are II.--If the third hand player ask, "Shall I play?" or should he lead out id = 18759 author = Faulkner, Thomas A. title = From the Ball-Room to Hell date = keywords = God; REV; dance; dancing; girl; man summary = dangers there are for young girls in the dancing academy and ball-room, beautiful daughter in the dancing academy or ball-room. now she thinks of and discusses with her girl friends of the dancing does not, and that beautiful girl who entered the dancing school as pure found in, and leaders of, the select dancing school, in the ball room If you place her in the dancing academy or ball-room she cannot and will noticeable fact that a man who knows the ways of a ball-room rarely described, that two-thirds of the dancing-school girls are ruined. try to save young girls from the sin, disgrace and destruction dancing first time when they were young girls at a social dance. Dancing school and ball rooms 163 I know of a select dancing school where in a course of three months ball, about you by the very young men who, at the dance, you thought so id = 20375 author = Field, Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) title = Watch Yourself Go By date = keywords = Alfred; Alfurd; Aunt; Betsy; Bill; Brownsville; Charley; Clipper; Colonel; Columbus; County; Cousin; Doctor; Eli; Field; George; Gideon; Harrison; Jack; Jake; Joe; John; Lin; Mr.; Mrs.; Ned; Node; Palmer; Pittsburgh; Sam; Steele; Street; Sunday; Thayer; Tom; Uncle; boy; good; illustration; man; old summary = Going from you, Alfred looked like a grown man; coming towards you he Lin shaded her eyes, gazed hard at the boy, dropped the mop, and Alfred Lin told the good, honest soul they could not think of Alfred wearing Alfred saw a large man pushing his way to the ticket wagon. The big Doctor, Alfred and the boys were seated long before the The father and mother of Alfred had different ideas of the boy''s future. cut up one of her best red skirts to complete the costume of which Mrs. Young furnished the foundation in the garments Alfred was sent home in A few days later Cousin Charley brought Alfred a fine pair of white and When the boys arrived at Alfred''s home and Lin saw them assisting the Alfred never liked the man from the time he failed to keep his When Lin heard that the boys were addressing Alfred as "Doctor," usually 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 = 45030 author = Fletcher, Horace title = A.B.C. of Snap Shooting: Sporting, Exhibition, and Military date = keywords = ball; hit; practice; rifle; shoot summary = teaching Snap Shooting, by using the rifle in practice, which, by its The practice of snap shooting does not interfere with aiming at bell-ball thrown up perpendicularly in a given time, say one or two rifle practice, and as a swinging target in shooting galleries, is The instant the bell is thrown for the cross shot, bring the rifle to The "BASE BALL" or INCOMING SHOT at a bell thrown at the firer practice, throw glass balls too far for the rifle, at first, but as When a rifle is sighted to shoot point blank a given distance, the TO GOVERN COMPETITION IN SHOOTING AT BELL OR GLASS BALLS WITH A RIFLE, 1. Shooting at a Swinging Bell and hitting it in various positions. 4. Hit Bells, holding the rifle in One Hand. 7. IN TIME SHOOTING with a repeating rifle, balls can be hit as fast id = 41643 author = Ford, Horace A. (Horace Alfred) title = The Theory and Practice of Archery date = keywords = Archery; GENTLEMEN; Grand; Meeting; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Yards; hit; score; totals; |hits|score|hits|score|hits|score| summary = old unaltered Flemish bows, at the point where the arrow lies on the inserted in the handle of the bow, at the point where the arrow lies, is point of the arrow when nocking it; and the dents in the back of the bow Round of 144 arrows, at the three distances, a good bow will not need If the arrow be placed on the bowstring as if for shooting, the bow of the string to the arrow in the shape of a blow upon the bow. archer''s fingers and the place on the bow where the arrow lies when it sharp point of the arrow) upon that part of the bow (close to the Norton prize-day, shooting 144 arrows, scored 213 with 43 hits, and Mr. G. At 80 yards his best in 48 arrows was 47 hits 273 score; and he 1874, when, shooting 96 arrows, he scored 579 with 95 hits. id = 39805 author = Frazar, Douglas title = Practical Boat-Sailing: A Concise and Simple Treatise date = keywords = Bob; Tom; illustration; sail; wind; yacht summary = As a rule, sailing-boats and small yachts are "trimmed by the stern;" useful when the yacht is likely to lie at anchor in a sea-way for a long When every thing is ready, bring the yacht to the wind, and let the sails shake in the wind''s eye; and, so soon as she gets stem-way, let the yacht has come head to wind, and commenced to get stern-way, it yacht that is well balanced in sails and ballast will, on a wind, TO KNOW WHEN THE YACHT IS AS NEAR THE WIND AS SHE WILL SAIL the helm, and keep the yacht in that position which is called sailing quarter, the port jib-sheets trimmed down, and the yacht close-hauled to Bring the yacht close to the wind, and haul the main-sheet flat aft, and direction in which one''s own yacht is sailing, or, if she be at anchor, id = 41961 author = Frost, Thomas title = The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs date = keywords = Bartholomew; Carey; City; Court; Croydon; Drury; England; Fair; George; Hall; Harper; John; Johnson; Kean; King; Lane; Lee; London; Lord; Mayor; Menagerie; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Penkethman; Richardson; Smithfield; Southwark; St.; Street; Theatre; Wombwell; booth; year summary = The theatrical booths attending the London fairs began at this time to be the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be presented a little opera, called the Rope-Dancer--Cadman, the Flying Man. The success of the theatrical booths at the London fairs induced Lee, a successive years, as a Bartholomew Fair showman, setting up a theatrical In the following year, Hallam appeared at Bartholomew Fair without a Hallam''s booth attended Tottenham Court Fair this year, standing near the appearance at the fair in the preceding year, and his booth was now held performed at Bartholomew Fair three years previously. Bartholomew Fair was visited this year for the first time by the female Yates and Shuter again attended Bartholomew Fair in the following year. Theatrical booths again appeared at Bartholomew Fair in 1782, when Mrs. Baker, manageress of the Rochester Theatre, took her company to Richardson presented this year, on the first day of Bartholomew Fair, _The id = 10969 author = Furse, Katharine title = Ski-running date = keywords = Class; Club; Ski; Skis; Switzerland; Winter; ing; run; runner; slope; snow; test summary = against the Ski-runner, and the perfect Christiania in deep, soft snow Ski-ing tidily, and thereby keeping dry and, in a few days, running the rink or toboggan run offer a relief to a stale Ski runner. There is a good Ski map showing all the runs round Davos, but the ZUOZ, 5,617 feet above the sea, is also a good Ski-ing centre further help Ski runners, and the slopes are somewhat steep and apt to be Pass helps a little by carrying Ski runners home after some long VILLARS, 4,000 feet above the sea, is reached by a railway from Bex. It lies on slopes facing South, and I gather that the Ski-ing there is for Ski runners, even a few inches of wet snow will provide practice, a steep slope that the Skis run away with you. Where the Ski-ing is organized, tests are run and tours arranged id = 41388 author = Gould, Arthur Corbin title = The Modern American Pistol and Revolver date = keywords = Colt; Mr.; Smith; Wesson; american; illustration; pistol; revolver summary = calibre, in single-shot pistols, for target and small-game shooting within New Target Revolver: single action; central fire; calibre .32; six shots; [Illustration: SMITH & WESSON REVOLVER, .32 CALIBRE, SINGLE ACTION.] [Illustration: SMITH & WESSON REVOLVER, RUSSIAN MODEL, .44 CALIBRE, SINGLE [Illustration: SMITH & WESSON REVOLVER, RUSSIAN MODEL, .44 CALIBRE DOUBLE six-shot, .42-calibre, 7-inch barrel revolver, weight, 2 pounds 11-1/2 shooting with a .38-calibre Colt''s revolver with a 7-inch barrel. required in shooting a Smith & Wesson Russian model .44-calibre revolver shots fired from revolvers and pistols, at a rest with fine sights by Wesson .44-calibre revolver, that the 100-shot record would not be [Illustration: Six shots with a Smith & Wesson .38-calibre revolver, at 12 [Illustration: Six shots with a Smith & Wesson .38-calibre revolver, at 12 [Illustration: Six shots with a .44-calibre revolver, at 12 yards, reduced .44-calibre Russian-model revolver at 30 and 50 yards one can shoot up to id = 41669 author = Hall, A. Neely (Albert Neely) title = Home-made Toys for Girls and Boys Wooden and Cardboard Toys, Mechanical and Electric Toys date = keywords = FIG; Figs; Motor; Wheel; end; home; illustration summary = Cut the crank stick _C_ as shown in Fig. 33, bore a hole for the axle a piece of cigar-box wood, and bore a 1/4-inch hole through the center ends of the water-motor wheel (_A_, Fig. 72), a cigar-box out of which inches wide, and, after rounding the ends as shown in the drawing, cut a cone-shaped piece cut from a spool, similar to the top shown in Fig. 123, and an empty shoe-polish can. =For the Platform= shown directly under the horses and sleighs in Fig. 135, cut a piece of cardboard 11 inches in diameter; if you choose to The top to the front of the car should now be cut as shown in Fig. 173, the distance between the sides being measured to get the piece of The horizontal piece _A_ (Fig. 213) is fastened between the ends of the box, to support targets. id = 27318 author = Harr, Lew Lysle title = Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling date = keywords = East; Wind; illustration summary = _East Wind_ for the first game of an evening''s play, for if the player representing _East Wind_ wins, or if the game is a draw, he remains tile will complete a player''s hand allowing him to "_Mah-Jongg_," the 5. If a player can pung a discard which will complete his _hand_ and 6. If two players pung the same tile to complete their hands, the When the first player to complete his hand calls "_Mah-Jongg_" the game is ended, and all players expose their hands and count up their scores. winning player if he _draws_ the tile which completes his hand from the ten points given to the winning player if any of his loose tile draws 4. The winning hand of 3 different sets of winds with a pair of the 1. A set of a player''s own wind doubles his total score once. id = 31214 author = Headley, Rowland George Allanson-Winn, Baron title = Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence date = keywords = cut; edge; fig; guard; hand; illustration; left; point; position; right; stick; sword summary = usual for a right-handed man to stand with his left foot in advance of In quarter-staff, as in stick-play, broad-sword exercise, fencing, etc., in all cuts, points, or guards, the second knuckles of the fingers in their hands _pointing_ and _cutting_ weapons, and make slashing guard,'' where the point of the sword is necessarily directed upwards, to angles, right foot pointing towards target; shoulders square to left, _First Point._--Turn the wrist, with the edge of the sword upwards, to _Second Point._--Turn the edge upwards to the left, draw the elbow _Guard Three._--Turn wrist and edge to the left, the hand being rather _Guard Five._--Wrist and edge to the left, with blade pointing _Guard Six._--Wrist and edge to the right, with blade pointing right to left of your body, the sword returning to its position as of it, the point of the sword lowered to the left front, edge upwards. id = 32788 author = Hercat title = More Conjuring: Simple Tricks for Social Gatherings date = keywords = Fig; card; coin; hand; illustration; number summary = Throw the pack on the table and request some one to select a card. card." You push the pack forward in your left hand, allowing the bottom Place the palmed card face upward on the left hand top and taking the left hand away, which will leave the selected card When ready to present the trick, hand the pack to your friend and ask between twenty and forty cards, place the pack on the table, and hand add the palmed cards and hand the pile thus increased to person number fingers of the left hand, and palm the top card as before. and two middle fingers of the right hand raise the rest of the cards the first two fingers and thumb of right hand take the three other cards counted cards, and hand the pack to spectator, with the request that he same time jerk the coin in your left hand upwards into your right, and 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 = 46438 author = Hinrichs, Charles F. A. title = Archery Rules date = keywords = arrow; bow; good; string summary = Best Flemish Bow-Strings, 25c. Best Flemish Bow-Strings, 25c. the bow until the centre of the string is a certain distance Arrows are distinguished by weight in the same manner as bows, only in The best bow-strings are of foreign manufacture, and are generally which some archers use to anoint the string and their shooting-glove the shooting-glove, however, it is best to leave the archer to choose not usual to shoot more than _three_ arrows at each "end," as it is "The bow being held by the handle in the left hand, let the arrow be placed with the right (_over_ the string, not _under_) perfectly straight, the hand grasping the handle of the bow, the arrow hand passed over the string and on each side of the arrow, as in the hold bow and arrow. _Horn_ The tip of each end of the bow. _Nocking Point_ The point in the bow-string which, id = 8439 author = Hofmann, Mary Christiana title = Games for Everybody date = keywords = child; game; guess; leader; number; paper; player; time; turn; word summary = about the chosen word until the player has guessed it correctly. All the players sit in a circle and begin to count in turn, but The player who is guessing may think of any number of words with the All the players sit in a circle, the leader begins by saying, "My leader answers: "A rooster!" Each player repeats this in turn to his each player in turn reads his "confusion" to the rest who guess what For the second turn the player to the right of the hostess begins, The players sit in a circle, Number One names some place The players who know how to play this game stay in one room, while the Both the leader and player stand at one end of the room, between the The player guessing the greatest number of flowers correctly receives left each player in turn takes one word, thus the leader has "a," the id = 43246 author = Home, Gordon title = The Motor Routes of England: Western Section date = keywords = Abbey; Bridge; Castle; Church; Edward; England; English; Hall; Henry; Hill; John; King; LOOP; Lord; Map; Norman; ROUTE; River; Sir; St.; Street; Wales; early; mile; perpendicular; place; roman; town summary = =Redbourne.=--Small village; church, Norman and Early English; fine demolish the church, subsequently erecting a great Norman building in Other objects of interest in St. Albans are Sopwell Ruins, St. Stephen''s Church, and Gorhambury, two miles distant, the house of the =Tamworth.=--An ancient town; historic castle; Perpendicular church. =Shifnal.=--Pretty town, with quaint timbered houses; church Norman, =Ruthin.=--Castle, with beautiful surroundings; church, Perpendicular, beyond the town one reaches the fine old church of ~Whitchurch~, now =Conway.=--Castle; bridge; walls of the town; church. well-marked road north of the town leading from Church Street, and to thirteenth-century castle; town walls; St. Mary''s Church. =Raglan.=--Village and church; beautiful ruins of the castle; =Usk.=--A village, with ruins of castle and a Norman church. ~Eye~ lies to the left of the road, and has a church with some fine quaint houses; church, Norman, Early English, and Perpendicular; tower the town since the beautiful Perpendicular church was put up. id = 42723 author = Houdini, Harry title = The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin date = keywords = Anderson; Bosco; Collection; Droz; England; Fawkes; Harry; Henry; Houdin; Jacquet; London; Memoirs; Paris; Phillippe; Pinchbeck; Pinetti; Robert; St.; Theatre; illustration; trick summary = Robert-Houdin''s explanation of tricks performed by other magicians and Robert-Houdin''s claims to the invention of automata and second-sight. [Illustration: Programme for the opening of Robert-Houdin''s theatre in [Illustration: Writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin as the writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin, he brought to The writing and drawing figure claimed by Robert-Houdin as his original Concerning this trick, which Robert-Houdin claims as his invention, he Robert-Houdin worked The Mystic Bell trick in connection with The Clock. England by the time Robert-Houdin appeared in London in 1848. "Inexhaustible Bottle Trick" was used by Anderson before Robert-Houdin invented this trick arose between Robert-Houdin and Henri Robin, who Robin presented all the tricks and automata that Robert-Houdin claimed Robert-Houdin presented the trick for the first time at his own While Robert-Houdin, in his "Memoirs," claims to have invented the trick Robert-Houdin appeared in London for the last time in 1853, but in 1865 id = 435 author = Houdini, Harry title = Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. date = keywords = Chabert; Dr.; England; King; Ling; London; Mr.; New; Paris; Sir; Smith; Sothern; York; burn; fire; hand; man; time; water summary = iron.--To cook in a burning cage.--Chabert''s oven.--To eat coals of that a London appearance was arranged for the same year; and at Mr. Laston''s rooms, 23 New Bond Street, her performance attracted the most Chabert took 20 grains of phosphorus, swallowed oil heated to nearly heat, the fire-king challenged any man living to drink a spoonful of clever performers drew quite fashionable audiences for a long time, and No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a enable the fireman to take into his hand burning or red-hot bodies. The last act in this extraordinary performance is the swallowing of a I have seen one of these performers on the street, in London, swallow a water worked those houses; but his performance met with little The feats which I saw him perform, a few days ago, were the following: performances, for eight or ten years; men of ordinary strength found id = 39445 author = Hoyle, Edmond title = Hoyle''s Games Modernized date = keywords = Black; Bridge; Fig; King; Knight; Queen; Whist; White; card; play; player summary = The player of the highest card of the suit led, or a trump, wins the trick, At the earlier stage of the game, the player scores for the cards he holds 16.--If, after playing a card, a player who has declared carte blanche draw 18.--If both players play with more than nine cards, the game is null and 20.--If both players play with less than nine cards, the deal stands good, 46.--If a player who has a declaration to score play a card of the If the three cards of the hand are all of one suit, the player scores three three, or on an ace a seven; for a like card played by the first player When playing to make a lone hand, always lead your commanding trump cards one for the card he so plays; but if the second player wins the trick, he id = 37394 author = Hutchinson, Horace G. (Horace Gordon) title = Fifty Years of Golf date = keywords = Allan; Andrews; Balfour; Ball; Bobby; Captain; Club; England; Hoylake; Johnny; Laidlay; Molesworth; Mr.; North; Oxford; Royal; St.; Taylor; Vardon; Westward; golf; illustration; play summary = now the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, playing at Hoylake. jabbing the ball up to the hole with the iron clubs and with a great ball, while others, like that great little man Jamie Anderson, then at The first amateur championship, as by law established, was played at St. Andrews, and started for me, as I suppose did most things at that time Johnny Ball really was on his own course and when playing his right I know that I never started out to play a match with Johnny Ball without golfers going about the various links under the leadership of old Mr. Robert Clark, who edited the great book on golf. one day at Hoylake to play a five-ball match, for a fiver a hole, Johnny Ball had won the amateur championship that year at Hoylake, Ball played badly at all, yet he was beaten, I think, by more holes than 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 = 10961 author = Lambert Chambers, Mrs. title = Lawn Tennis for Ladies date = keywords = Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Sutton; Wimbledon; game; illustration; match; play summary = in the class of play is so great, that the beginner hardly hits the ball hour a day, finishing up with a game which brings into play the stroke I remember playing one match where I used this stroke a great deal. Invariably making strokes in a wrong way, tournament play only serves to One of the great things to remember in match play is this--do not strive In match play remember that a game is never lost until it is won. playing an important match it is very injudicious to watch another game. to play the game all the year round, under cover or out in the open. good game the very first time he played on a first-class court--I refer years before I even played in a court, and I think it was a very good I have played Miss Sutton five times, losing three and winning two of id = 4913 author = Lasker, Edward title = Chess and Checkers : the Way to Mastership date = keywords = Black; King; Pawn; Queen; White summary = White could attack Black''s Bishop by moving his Rook to d1 or to Instead of checking on c5 Black could have attacked White''s King Now White''s King is in check as Black''s Queen threatens to take Now White''s King is in check as Black''s Queen threatens to take enable Black to queen the Pawn and to win the game. and White then wins by advancing the c-Pawn which forces Black''s If in the position of Diagram 21 White plays (1) Ktd5, Black must protect the Pawn c7 by Q-d8 or Q-d6, but not by Qattack by the Queen and another piece on the King''s Rook''s Pawn. now Black loses the Bishop which is attacked by White''s Rook, Now White need not hesitate to protect his King''s Pawn with Ktc3, for Black cannot, as shown in example 1, gain control of the Black does not advance his King''s pawn to e5, as White can open id = 5614 author = Lasker, Edward title = Chess Strategy date = keywords = Black; White summary = The Knight plays and captures alternately on White and Black plan would be as follows: White threatens Black''s Knight for the White will assail the Black King''s position on the Queen side, Should Black play PxP at once, White would exchange Queens, White cannot play P-K5, because Black wins a pawn by PxP without If Black covers the Knight with P-B4, White plays PxP e.p. and White''s pawn attack is more dangerous than Black''s, of Black''s game by preventing his playing the King''s Pawn. If now Black answers PxP, White simply plays BxP and the P at R5 Now Black threatens QPxP with an attack on White''s Queen''s Pawn. White King is able to attack the Black pawn at once. draws, as Black, in order to capture the White pawn, after KxKt Black shatters White''s pawn position, and his Bishops and Rooks The Black Queen''s side pawns are weak, and give White id = 37136 author = Leach, Henry title = The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer date = keywords = Andrews; Blackheath; Championship; Club; England; France; John; London; Madrid; Mr.; New; Ouimet; Pau; Ray; Rome; Royal; Spain; St.; States; Taylor; Tom; United; Vardon; american; british; course; game; golf; golfer; good; hole; man; play summary = golf, we like to think of the good men of the old traditions as being No man when at St. Andrews is allowed "to play the short game at the regular golf holes, far smoother courses to play upon and much improved clubs and balls. which he plays the game, Mr. Ball''s golf is strongly individual to knows the truth about a golf stroke as it is played, and that is the man States with greens far superior to those on the old course at St. Andrews the last time the Amateur Championship was played there, those possess a good golf course there, he might say he supposed they did play history that the game was played in Italy before any golf club, except it not for this golf course, on which he plays nearly every day. "You are a golfer, and we of Spain may give you some good golf to play!" 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 = 12926 author = MacIlwaine, Herbert C. title = The Morris Book, Part 1 A History of Morris Dancing, With a Description of Eleven Dances as Performed by the Morris-Men of England date = keywords = Column; Morris; Nos; Notation; bar; illustration summary = Diagrams of Morris Steps (explaining Notation-marks) side of Morris-men dances at White Ladies Aston, one-and-a-half mile from last step of each bar to Morris four-time music is a hop, as in the This is called in the Notation--Column, or Col. In Position 2, or Front, the dancers are turned inward, and face each to four bars of music; another movement follows; then "Half-chain" again, whose turn it is to dance together jump on last half-bar before they complete turn to the right--right-about--dance as before in bars 5 to 8, step), hands are swung backward; forward on half-bar; back again, In the first bar of "B" music, No. 1, with top end, taps the butt of No. 2, on beats 3 and 4, thus:-In the second bar of "B" music, No. 2, with top end, taps the butt of No. 1, on beats 3 and 4, thus:-- id = 19208 author = Macfadden, Bernarr title = Vitality Supreme date = keywords = bath; body; case; chapter; exercise; food; good; great; life; movement; sleep; time; water summary = The very great value of maintaining the body in a proper position cannot a method of stimulating the vital forces of the body. work required of these blood-making organs are of far more importance spine are combined with a liberal use of hot water, the blood is forced natural desire that in nearly all cases brings satisfactory results. outdoor life some active exercise which will use all the muscles of the The use of a large amount of cold water at meal-time is likely to be Sun baths are especially effective as a means of stimulating activity of following exercise, as a means of preparing the body for a cold bath. bath will put your skin in a condition where the cold water will "feel good." Exercise that thoroughly warms the body will naturally have the the body generally, as a result of natural physical activity, is always id = 41169 author = Maskelyne, John Nevil title = Sharps and Flats A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill date = keywords = America; FIG; Kepplinger; card; deal; game; good; hand; holdout; illustration; man; mark; pack; player; sharp; table; time summary = The sharp who uses marked cards will always contrive to ''work cards, or as many of them as happen to fall into his hands, from time to Thus with one hand the sharp is enabled to mark any card he secreted a card in the palm of his hand, the sharp, under cover of the each card is dealt, the finger and thumb of the dealer''s right hand fall of cards in your left hand, in the manner usually adopted in dealing, ''second-dealer'' will place a known card on top of the pack and deal the case of this kind, the sharp will endeavour to manipulate the cards in cards in a manner which will bring good hands to the sharp and his thumb of his right hand he takes off one card from the top of the pack, very simple, but they mean a great deal, sometimes, in a game of cards. id = 33291 author = Mathewson, Christy title = Pitching in a Pinch; or, Baseball from the Inside date = keywords = Athletics; Big; Chicago; Clarke; Cubs; Devore; Giants; League; National; New; Philadelphia; Pittsburg; York; ball; game summary = pitching in the Big Leagues for eleven years and winning games right that long bat, drove the ball to right field for two bases over the head There has been for a long time an ardent follower of the Giants named Mrs. Wilson, who raves wildly at a game, and is broken-hearted when the team _Many Pitchers Are Effective in a Big League Ball Game until that In most Big League ball games, there comes an inning on which hangs runner starts while the batter smashes the ball on a hit and run play. out three times one day by getting bad starts, hitting at the first ball. Many times a quick-witted ball-player wins a game for his club by his snap Clarke hit the ball to right field, Byrne reaching third base on the play. best man to steal third base playing ball to-day. id = 50631 author = McIlrath, H. Darwin title = Around the World on Wheels, for The Inter Ocean The Travels and Adventures in Foreign Lands of Mr. and Mrs. H. Darwin McIlrath date = keywords = CHAPTER; Chicago; China; City; Club; English; Foo; Grand; India; Inter; Japan; July; King; McIlrath; Mr.; Mrs.; Ocean; Shanghai; Springs; States; United; american; british; chinese; day; mile summary = he went so far as to assist Mrs. McIlrath on her wheel and start us we reached the town "Tommy Atkins" escorted Mrs. McIlrath to our hotel, for Mrs. McIlrath''s wheel arrived from Chicago, and an hour later we left at noon and rolled out on the white sandy roads, making 12 miles first time since leaving Chicago Mrs. McIlrath and I were so tired a trip to the old city was necessary, and on this errand Mrs. McIlrath Shaze it was upon a large house-boat, bound five miles above the city. an old and dilapidated, yet a city of great importance, Mrs. McIlrath city, half a dozen miles above and across the river, arriving at nine days, during which time Mrs. McIlrath recovered from the serious Mrs. McIlrath and I reached fully an hour before our wheels arrived, A native mechanic repaired Mrs. McIlrath''s wheel, though it took id = 36667 author = Mesick, John F. title = A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing date = keywords = Christ; Church; Dancing; God; Heaven; world summary = the fashionable amusement of Dancing, is contrary to the _spirit_ and soul that has been delivered from this present evil world through faith servants of God and the people of the world, a distinction as Dancing is an act of conformity to the world_. Modern dancing, as generally practised, is a gay and guilty pleasure. not a historical notice in the word of God, of _promiscuous dancing_ mind, which is governed by truth and reason, as to the evils of Dancing. amusement by which the world is distinguished from the kingdom of Jesus No other measure is needed on the part of the God of this world, than to the amusements of the fashionable world, under these hazardous live without hope and without God in the world to persevere in their The dancing professor of religion, by his inconsistent example, a few friends, to practice dancing as an amusement. id = 16316 author = Miller, Claude Harris title = Outdoor Sports and Games date = keywords = America; England; ball; boy; camp; foot; game; good; illustration; line; place; play; player; point; run; scout; team; tennis; thing; time; water; way summary = A party of four boys makes a good number for a camping trip. A regulation hockey team consist of seven players called goal, point, play, like golf, but if one has been a ball player in youth the playing to hold up your end on a ball team you had better give up the The art of becoming a good ball player depends largely on the boy matter how good a ball player a boy is he will never get the real exercise that results from playing this game has given it a sure place beginning of the game the ball is placed in the centre of the playing A game of ball played by two opposing teams of twelve players each. A game of ball played on a level piece of ground, called a court, by A game played by two teams of four players each. 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 = 27819 author = Peel, W. H. title = Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice date = keywords = card; game; hand; player summary = player making a misdeal pays a penalty to the pool equal to the stake of Provided no player has headed the trick, _i.e._, played a higher card of the players to pay in when it is the original dealer''s turn to play. player who decides to stand, or who takes the miss, must play his cards The dealer, beginning with the player at his left hand, then deals one If all the players reject their cards, declining to play, ante''s stake 7. The dealer shall give one card from the top of the pack to each player The ante shall be staked by the player to the left of the dealer hand, the player whose sequence contains the highest card (ace being the In playing the game the ace is reckoned the highest card, then follow king, player''s hand, that card may be played as an almost safe one, as there is id = 36821 author = Penn, Richard title = Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters Also, Miseries of Fishing date = keywords = Mr.; Thompson; fish; fly; game; good; illustration summary = in the water, a good fish will always hook himself, on your gently only two cases in which a fish taking the fly will infallibly hook think that you can make a better guess as to where the fish is likely to If, during your walks by the river-side, you have marked any good fish, tired." Much valuable time and many a good fish may be lost by this man who seldom catches a fish at any other time, usually gets hold of Our angler, after much patient fishing, hooked a fine trout; and having Fishing for the first time with flies of your own making--and finding Being allowed to have one day''s fishing in a stream, the windings of fish; and then having the identical fly, lost by you on that occasion, or even to his friend Thompson, that the very fine fish, about which he id = 14183 author = Penn, W. E. title = There is No Harm in Dancing date = keywords = Christ; God; Jesus; Penn; dance; dancing; man summary = by hundreds of FATHERS and mothers, young men and girls, HUSBANDS and to-day, and I know that she is bound to go home." The writer said: "Bro. Penn, you are mistaken; Sister Penn would not have you leave this fruit alone has sent hundreds of thousands of men, women and girls to hearts of thousands of men in the ball room, in the dances and in the for God in the ball room, theater, opera, or drinking saloon? When the ball closes, the young men take the girls to their homes. these places, there never would be another ball or hop or dance upon the soon as they carry their girls home, or as soon as the ball or dance is sins and crimes are the natural fruit of all kinds of dancing, where the dance, but, like hundreds and thousands of girls and women of to-day, id = 8084 author = Pope, Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) title = Hunting with the Bow & Arrow date = keywords = California; Compton; Frost; Indian; Ishi; Yana; Young; arrow; bear; bow; deer; dog; draw; good; hunting; illustration; inch; long; shoot; string; time; tree; yard summary = HOW ISHI MADE HIS BOW AND ARROW AND HIS METHODS OF SHOOTING His people killed bear with the bow and arrow. released the arrow, the bow rotated in his hand so that the string miniature bow and poisoned arrow in shooting game. shooting two arrows at once from the same bow, their shafts being Shooting a blunt arrow from a seventy-five pound bow at a white pine Shooting a little arrow on these bows, the sap wood shot forty-three sixty yards a bow can shoot arrows with an error of dispersion of no arrow from the quiver with the right hand and carry it across the bow not strong enough to draw an arrow half way on a hunting bow. Killing bears with the bow and arrow is a very old pastime, in fact, it The very idea of shooting grizzly bears with the bow and arrow strikes id = 17727 author = R. H. (Robert Howlett) title = The School of Recreation (1696 edition) Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, the Science of Defence date = keywords = Adversaries; Bells; Ground; Head; Notes; Parade; Paste; Pike; Powder; Sword; Treble; Water; body; fish; left; right; thrust summary = till the Butt-end come to your Hand, then place it between your Breast Left foot against the middle of your Right, and bring down your _Pike_ your Right-hand, your Left-Toe pointing in a Line with the Spear of the bringing your _Pike_ recovered, observe that your Left hand be never Left-hand, and bring in your Right-leg, laying your _Pike_ on your Right-leg, and then forsake your _Pike_ with your Left-hand, and lay it Shouldering, at what time bring up your Right-leg, and lay your _Pike_ Right-foot that it may come even with your Left, and so bring the _Pike_ With your Right-hand raise the Pike, and step back with your Left Leg, place the Butt-end about the middle of it, your Right-hand an Inch below of your Right-hand-mans, and in like manner observe in the Word of When you observe your Adversaries Thrust coming home within your Sword, id = 12343 author = Rid, Samuel title = The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine Wherein is Deciphered All the Conueyances of Legerdemaine and Iugling, How They Are Effected, and Wherin They Chiefly Consist; Cautions to Beware of Cheating at Cardes and Dice, the Detection of the Beggerly Art of Alcumistry, and the Foppery of Foolish Cousoning Charmes, All Tending to Mirth and Recreation, Especially for Those That Desire to Haue the Insight and Priuate Practise Thereof date = keywords = Cardes; Iugler; Legerdemaine; ball; hand; haue; seeme; shew; vse summary = good speede, I know I haue runne thorow the hands of many, censured of palme of your hand, and so by vse, you shall not only seeme to put any candlesticks &c, then first seeme to put one ball into your left hand, and seeme to put the ball which is thought to be in your left hand with your left hand you leaue behinde you a great ball, or any other charmes seeme to conuey the same ball from vnder the same box or hand into your lap, it will seeme strange, for when you open your left one testor into your left hand, with words you shall make it seeme when you open your said left hand, there shall be nothing seene: and alwaies see what Cardes hee hath in his hand, So that a few ensamples The other vse of Cardes is to shew feates of Legerdemaine. id = 46266 author = Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène title = The Sharper Detected and Exposed date = keywords = Andréas; Béroli; CHAPTER; Chauvignac; Greek; Hausheer; Olivier; Paris; Raymond; card; game; hand; illustration; play summary = The game began well for the Greeks: the young man placed on the table He held in his hands three cards--say, the seven of hearts, the king They, having seen the card in his right hand, and followed it closely The bet was accepted by the Greek who, turning over the card pointed used to play at cards, at a table placed close beside his bed. "You observe nothing in this hand of cards?" said Chauvignac. When the Greek, takes up the packet of cards No. 2, to place them on In order to do this trick, the Greek keeps the cards he wishes to neighbourhood of the card-tables, with his right hand placed, as but the Greek manages to play on, and to know the card which is coming, taking up the pack, the Greek selects the cards required, and places is, to know even one card in the hand of your adversary, in that game. id = 50903 author = Sachs, Edwin Thomas title = Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others date = keywords = FIG; article; audience; ball; card; cause; coin; end; finger; hand; handkerchief; hat; hold; illustration; pack; palm; pass; performer; place; table; trick summary = placed the marked coin in the left hand, but in reality palm it. to perform this trick with a coin previously sewn in a handkerchief, right hand place the hat into the left one, the thumb on the brim, the (show left hand, at same time allowing coin to fall back in the right, CARD--THE LADY''S OWN TRICK--A RAPID CHANGE PASS--METHODS to look at the top card on the pack held in your left hand, and to the performer pretends to place each card, as chosen, upon a table, the box is wide open, and in the right-hand half is placed the card, cards require considerable sleight of hand in their performance; and CARD IN COURSE OF PERFORMING--PASSING HANDKERCHIEF OVER performer has balled up under the fingers of the hand holding the left the performer''s hand, three of his own having been placed in the 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 = 37443 author = Sheafe, Alfonso Josephs title = The Fascinating Boston How to Dance and How to Teach the Popular New Social Favorite date = keywords = Boston; illustration summary = Awakening" and "On the Wings of Dream," by Danglas; Sinibaldi''s Starting with the weight upon the left foot, step forward, placing the entire weight upon the right foot, as in the illustration facing page 14 weight upon that foot (count 2); execute a half-turn to the left, part is danced in the positions shown in the illustrations facing pages In the first part, the dancers execute three Boston steps forward, This is followed by three Boston steps backward (without turning) in the Boston step turning (toward the partner) and finishing in regular Waltz During the first four measures take four Boston steps without turning stretch the free foot backward, (lady''s left, gentleman''s right) as Execute four drawing steps to the side (lady''s right, gentleman''s left) steps directly backward with his left foot, while the lady follows steps to the side (the lady''s right and the gentleman''s left) and two id = 13022 author = Squareman, Clarence title = My Book of Indoor Games date = keywords = card; child; game; hand; illustration; man; place; player; room; turn; word summary = At the end of the game each player gives his question and answer At the word "head" the hand archway descends, and clasps the player A ring is formed by the players joining hands, whilst one child, who it is to stand in the center of a ring, formed by the players seating The best way to play this game is for the players to divide themselves One player begins the game by going out of the room, and then giving a In this game the children join hands and walk round in a circle, Two persons only can play at this game, one player taking "noughts," table, but the player on the left-hand side of the dealer turns up This amusing game is for any number of players, and is played with a The next player turns to her right-hand neighbor, saying: "Good id = 11550 author = Squires, Richard C. title = Squash Tennis date = keywords = National; Racquets; Squash; Tennis; ball summary = any racquet game and has good reflexes will love Squash Tennis. The game of Squash Tennis has something to offer players of all ages. not have the strength or coordination to hit the Squash Racquets ball can introduce the additional indoor bat and ball game of Squash Tennis. Squash Tennis, as with all racquet games, is a sport of Squash Tennis is a game calling for such speed of racquet and hit higher than most of the other Squash Tennis shots since the ball has wall than the spot a Squash Racquets player employs. Squash Tennis is one of the few racquet and ball indoor sports that can (g) A player hit by a ball still in play loses the point, except however, a player is hit by a ball off his opponent''s racquet that is However, a player hit by a ball still in play will not lose id = 36659 author = Stanyon, Ellis title = Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. date = keywords = ball; coin; fig; hand; handkerchief; illustration; left; paper; pass; performer; place; right; trick summary = the right hand and actually place it in the left several times; then paper, then take it from the left hand to the right, letting the coin left hand is now closed and the piece apparently passed from the right coin is placed in the performer''s right vest pocket, and is obtained by trick you place the left hand (holding the hooked coin) behind the body takes the red handkerchief in his right hand, passing the ball into the 1. Having obtained the ball from the back of the right hand, place it [Illustration: Fig. 25.--Ball in Position on Right Hand] 2. Close the right hand and place the ball on the top, (Fig. 25). Place the palm of the right hand (containing the ball) on appear to place the ball in the left hand, really opening the case to A duplicate of this small ball should be placed in the right hand id = 16377 author = Staunton, Howard title = The Blue Book of Chess Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings date = keywords = BLACK; GAME; King; Mr.; Pawn; WHITE summary = Foot-soldier [Illustration: Chess Pieces, White and Black Pawns.] capital Pieces which can be played before the Pawns are moved--King, the game, White begins by playing King''s Pawn to King''s fourth square Rook, White is enabled to castle, giving check to the adverse King at the same time, and win the game easily, for Black has no square to which suppose yourself to be playing the White men, and take the Black King''s If he move his King, Black takes the Queen, and the game leap from white to black, and thus attack the Pawns on either colored In this variation, you see Black has lost his King''s Bishop''s Pawn, and Rook''s Pawn with your Queen, giving check safely, because Black [Footnote A: Black played ingeniously in offering to give up the Kt. If White had taken it, he must have been subjected to an embarrassing [Footnote B: This little game is excellently played by White.] id = 53847 author = Stearns, J. N. (John Newton) title = Merry''s Book of Puzzles date = keywords = God; Mary; Merry; Tis; day; flower; good; illustration; leave; letter; like; man; place; second; time; transpose; tree; word summary = first is an article in common use; my second, an animal of uncommon Why is a nail, fast in the wall, like an old man? My first is half of what implies good-humor; my second makes My _second_ shone like a silver floor, Why is a new married man like a horse? Why are children at play like a bird in her nest? What two letters of the alphabet do children like best? Why is Merry''s Museum like a good wife? Why is Merry''s Museum like a good mother? When Bess gave Mary her good-night kiss, she said to herself, "I like I am a beautiful tree; curtail and transpose me into another third letters away from the entire word, transpose the remainder, and Transpose a tree into a boy''s nickname. My second is loved by the school-boy bright, He is not likely to have a good run. id = 466 author = Steinmetz, Andrew title = The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2) date = keywords = Act; Adolphus; Baden; Charles; Disbrowe; Draupadi; Duke; Duryodhana; England; Faro; Fox; France; George; Hazard; Henry; Hombourg; James; London; Lord; Noir; Pandavas; Paris; Rouge; Roulette; Selwyn; Yudhishthira; french; gambling; game; gaming; man; play; table; time summary = which in a few years he so lost at play, that he died in great want and wit, and _EXCELLED AT PLAYING A CERTAIN GAME WITH DICE_. to pay his gaming debts, the king one day deducted seventy-two thousand who wanted to establish public gaming tables at the watering-places of house or room wherein he permitted unlawful games to be played. to the play-rooms in order to secure good places at the tables, which, temptation to a man who has won a sum of money at a small gambling house fortune; but having lost all at the gambling table, he gradually came titled ladies not only gambled, but kept gaming houses. suppressing the public gaming houses kept by the said ladies. life he never won or lost L20 at any game, and that he never played at games may not be played in public rooms after one, and before eight, id = 531 author = Steinmetz, Andrew title = The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2) date = keywords = Duke; England; English; France; Hazard; Henry; James; King; London; Lord; Olivier; Ros; Sir; Street; Whist; card; french; gambling; game; gaming; great; house; lose; man; money; play; table; time; win summary = 3. An Operator,--who dealt the cards at the cheating game called Faro. at cards, or dice, or any game of chance; this is well known to the But the lord chancellor said that THE GAME PLAYED IN THE COURT OF TURN-UP CARD,--the times and places at which it was said to have been Card-tables were regularly placed, and Whist was played dinner time the nest day, different games at cards, dice, and E O were least, and a turn for such diversions, to play well many games at cards. to card-playing about that time--their favourite game being the rather which says: "Five Cards is an Irish game, and is much played in that ''Many attempts have been made, at various times, to turn playing-cards playing-cards are now spades, clubs, hearts, and diamonds; but at ''The game of Put is played with an entire pack of cards, generally id = 45299 author = Terry, Ellen title = The Russian Ballet date = keywords = Nijinsky; ballet; dance; illustration; russian summary = faithful!" If the fashion in Russian ballet should age elsewhere I feel dancing movements formed the first metres of true poetry. dancing which is one of the most beautiful features of the Russian Russian ballet has influenced the plastic of the women, making it far surprises us about the Russian ballet is its _life_. dancing, but would not be a slave to them; with Russian composers such the Russian ballet who dance excellently with their bodies, even if they |IT has been said that the Russian ballet makes a vivid and brutal dance poems they should be called rather than ballets) because of their |SOME of the Russian ballets take a material story and treat it in that the rose comes to life and invites her to dance with it. special beauty of these Russian ballets and mimed poems, is present talented little dancer had more music in her, and did not dance always id = 34375 author = Unknown title = Hocus Pocus Junior: The Anatomie of Legerdemain Or, the art of jugling set forth in his proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practise. date = keywords = ball; hand; illustration; left; right; table summary = draw his cups and hold them all three in his right hand also, saying, ball in your right hand under the Cup noted B. then clap your left hand unto your mouth, seeme to suppe the ball out of downe the cup, convey the ball that is in your right hand under it, and cup noted _A_ convey the ball that you retained in your hand under it. Then with your right hand take up the second ball, and seeme to put it Then with your right hand take up the second ball, and seeme to put it holding the ball betweene your two middle fingers of your right hand, TAke a ball and lay it on the Table, and holding a knife in one hand by then seeme to put the Ball into your left hand, but let it flip into suddenly drawing your right hand thorow your left, you shall seeme to id = 45370 author = Unknown title = The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist: Houdini date = keywords = Boston; Graff; Hodgson; Houdini; Mirror; Mr.; Police; Willard; cell; illustration; lock; man summary = HARRY HOUDINI, "the World''s Handcuff King and amazing Prison Breaker," HARRY HOUDINI, THE AMERICAN HANDCUFF KING, SUES THE COLOGNE POLICE FOR This lock they challenged Houdini to open, to prove that he was not [Illustration: Houdini, as Handcuffed by the Vienna Police, March, Houdini escaped from this cell, as Chief Constable Scott''s certificate Great shouting and excited calling followed, which was renewed when Dr. Bradley, after examining Houdini, said his arms were blue, and it was Harry Houdini, the international Prison Breaker and Handcuff King, as Houdini escaped from the cell in which Charles J. minutes Houdini was out of that cell, free, the lock holding him hardly Houdini has escaped from cells in almost every city in confinement of Houdini, himself locked the wizard into a cell on the the prison, locked the cell door upon Houdini''s clothing, and then the that Houdini was locked in cell No. 60, and Superintendent Pierce id = 41149 author = Vaile, P. A. (Percy Adolphus) title = The Soul of Golf date = keywords = Advanced; Braid; Golf; James; Mr.; Professor; Ralph; Tait; Taylor; Thomson; Travis; Vardon; ball; club summary = left-handed players would use right-hand clubs and play like a to hit before the club head has come anywhere near the ball"--shows to the right--well, the cut on a golf ball in a mashie stroke is in Now, as a matter of fact, by the time the club has arrived at the ball face of the golf club, has struck the ball and sent it on its way to stroke, it stands to reason that after the ball had left his club, his Golfers_ that "in playing for a _pulled ball_ the right wrist turns a golf ball with just as little spin, and as a matter of practical the golf club, the ball will come off it at the same angle at which it possible to drive golf balls by a stroke delivered at the moment of matter of fact the rate of spin of the golf ball at the moment it id = 42950 author = Van Rensselaer, John King, Mrs. title = Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards date = keywords = Ace; Book; Cards; Cups; Egypt; England; Europe; Hearts; Hermes; Italy; Joker; King; Knave; Mercury; Money; Mr.; Nebo; Playing; Queen; Swords; Thoth; atout; early; egyptian; french; german; italian; tarot summary = EARLY ITALIAN TAROTS, PIP CARDS OF THE CUP SUIT 116 EARLY ITALIAN TAROTS, PIP AND COURT CARDS OF THE CUP SUIT 140 EARLY ITALIAN TAROTS, PIP CARDS OF THE ROD SUIT 166 EARLY ITALIAN TAROTS, PIP AND COURT CARDS OF THE ROD SUIT 190 EARLY ITALIAN TAROTS, PIP CARDS OF THE SWORD SUIT 216 EARLY ITALIAN TAROTS, PIP AND COURT CARDS OF THE SWORD SUIT 238 EARLY ITALIAN TAROTS, PIP AND COURT CARDS OF THE MONEY SUIT 288 cards point to the occult meaning of the game, which is still played with in the Atouts of the Tarot pack of cards, called "The Book of Thoth Hermes the Egyptians, forms with the pack of pip cards his book or picture of the pack, retaining only the suit cards with the pips of Cups, Money, Swords, with three court cards, King, Queen, and Knave, called by the French names id = 28107 author = Vardon, Harry title = The Complete Golfer date = keywords = Championship; Mr.; PLATE; Park; Taylor; Tom; ball; chapter; club; course; golf; golfer; good; hole; illustration; play; player; stroke; swing summary = the right hand plays--The manner of hitting the ball--On always being There are different ways of learning to play the great game of golf, play a good game of golf if he goes about it in the right way. fine players drive their best balls with stiff clubs. Good strokes with the brassy--Play as with the driver--The points Good strokes with the brassy--Play as with the driver--The points against full swings with iron clubs--Playing for a low ball against golfers best like to play, because they know that the good shots are (_i_) A ball is "in play" as soon as the player has made a stroke at the If a ball in play move, after the player has grounded his club Except from the tee a player shall not play while his ball is If a player play the opponent''s ball, his side shall lose the hole, id = 43516 author = Walsh, George E. title = Making a Tennis Court date = keywords = court; grass; illustration; tennis summary = early game of tennis, the net was 7 feet high at the ends, but sagged one of the best tennis clubs in the country had its courts laid out playing the game on home courts, tennis clubs and associations have courts toward the net and drain into the gutter that has been placed If the natural sod of the site selected for a grass court is luxuriant A grass court is the best to play on in warm weather. working up, but if placed on the grass court the cinder layer must be The playing surface of a tennis court for singles is 27 × 78 feet, and For the double courts prolong the net line 4 feet 6 inches, and join A grass tennis court with back nets to keep the balls from going too For single courts the nets are 27 feet The grass courts should always be watered at night after the play. id = 19975 author = Ward, John Montgomery title = Base-Ball How to Become a Player, With the Origin, History and Explanation of the Game date = keywords = New; ball; base; english; game; hit; play; runner; second; throw summary = believes there are many points in the game of base-ball which can be in the memory of the men of that day base-ball had been played a long that it was a popular English game before base-ball was played here I am run, and in tip cat, a game of much greater antiquity than either baseball or rounders, the runner was out if hit by the ball when between be hit with the ball at any time when he was between bases he was out, ball has been fairly pitched over the home-base, whether a hit is "fair" A passed ball is a throw by the pitcher which the catcher should stop when to throw to second base to catch a runner leading off too far. Even on an in-field hit to the second baseman or short-stop the outfielder should move in at once, so as to be able to recover the ball id = 41971 author = Watson. G. L. (George Lennox) title = Yachting, Vol. 1 date = keywords = Aline; America; Channel; Club; Council; Cowes; Cup; Egeria; Freda; Livonia; Mr.; New; Nicholson; Payne; Royal; Sailing; Solent; Southampton; St.; Thames; Vril; Watson; Y.R.A.; Yacht; illustration; rule summary = Racing cutters of 150 to 170 tons are now built to sail at a speed In the early times of schooner racing the yachts were, as a rule, The Royal Yacht Squadron arranged a race without time allowances round There are thirty-two ''sailing rules'' under which yacht racing in The rules have been examined and explained with much ability by Mr. Dixon Kemp, in his book on ''Yacht and Boat Sailing,'' chapter viii. C.Y.C.--To encourage the racing of yachts in the small classes Y.R.A. B.S.C.--To promote the interests of amateur boat-sailing. the Council may think fit, from sailing his yacht in any race held The measurement of a racing-yacht''s _sails_ is left very much in the The year 1887 was a turning point in small yacht racing on the Solent, Measurement, or the late Rule of the Yacht Racing Association, to sail This yacht, designed to sail under either measurement, length on deck, id = 27367 author = Wayburn, Ned title = The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession date = keywords = Actor; Association; Ballet; Chorus; City; Equity; Manager; Ned; New; New York; Paragraph; Saturday; Studios; Theatre; Wayburn; White; York; american; contract; dance; dancing; folly; illustration; stage; step summary = The Ned Wayburn Studios of Stage Dancing, _Inc._ Class in Dancing Foundation Technique at the Ned Wayburn Studios. Ned Wayburn''s Studios of Stage Dancing, at Columbus Circle and Stage dancing is no longer the haphazard stepping of feet to music The proper way to stand to learn my kind of stage dancing is with the musical comedy dancing, for the American tap, step and specialty work effectively in musical comedy dances, in tap, step, and American an inquiry to the Ned Wayburn Studios of Stage Dancing, Inc., 1841 step to back on "and"; right foot straight in place, facing up stage, professional term for musical comedy or any kind of a stage dance. musical comedy work, or tap and step, clogging, acrobatic dancing, [Illustration: CLASS IN STAGE MAKEUP AT THE NED WAYBURN STUDIOS] [Illustration: NED WAYBURN STUDIOS OF STAGE DANCING] At Ned Wayburn Studios of Stage Dancing, New York id = 3690 author = Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title = Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" date = keywords = End; game; railway summary = The jolliest indoor games for boys and girls demand a floor, and the home that has no floor upon which games may be played falls so far little about toy soldiers and the world to which they belong. THE GAME OF THE WONDERFUL ISLANDS THE GAME OF THE WONDERFUL ISLANDS islands, and put our soldiers in the little nests of drawers, and stand zoological garden, the town hall, a railway tunnel through the hill, a museum (away in the extreme right-hand corner), a church, a rifle Blue End has the railway station, four or five and so return to the railway station, extremely gratified by all we Of course the setting-out of the city is half the game. shop of the Jokil Company, and was building a Red End station near the FUNICULARS, MARBLE TOWERS, CASTLES AND WAR GAMES, BUT VERY LITTLE OF boards, the bricks, the soldiers, and the railway system--that id = 41335 author = Winans, Walter title = Automatic Pistol Shooting Together with Information on Handling the Duelling Pistol and Revolver date = keywords = Bisley; Smith; Wesson; pistol; revolver; shoot; shooting; sight; target summary = observing certain precautions, safely carry and shoot an automatic pistol. Up to the present no automatic pistol can shoot gallery, or light-charge, The automatic pistol is barred from gallery shooting by the fact that the Shoot a few shots at the range you want to sight for (taking care that you It is best to use a single-shot pistol or revolver as an automatic pistol the bull''s-eye bullet-holes, one target can be used for a long time. shot has struck the target, as you know where the sights were pointed at A practised shot can correct the shooting of his pistol by "aiming-off" use their own weapons--and two single-shot muzzle-loading duelling pistols to keep the loaded pistols on ice for some time before shooting--not shooting is easy, the right eye working the sights and the left seeing the Shooting at the trigger of a loaded rifle fixed in a rest, the shot from id = 37462 author = Woodgate, Walter Bradford title = Boating date = keywords = Bridge; Cambridge; Christ; Church; Club; Hall; Henley; Lady; Lock; London; Margaret; Mr.; Oxford; Putney; R.C.; Thames; Trinity; University summary = In 1837 the head college crews of the two Universities rowed a match at Good watermen can jump into a racing boat and sit her off-hand; bad when rowing in good style in old-fashioned iron-shod keeled boats. treatise on Boat-racing, used to slide to a small extent on a fixed seat It was stroked by Mr. Goldie, who had rowed all his University races on a fixed seat. In modern racing boats, the men slide too close to their work; and if race or match, such crew shall be provided by the club with a The member pulling the stroke-oar in any club boat shall after that the captain of each crew rowed the stroke oar. 5. Each boat shall keep its own water throughout the race, and colleges had boat clubs and manned eight oars, and at first it seems to (3) That no out-college crews be allowed to row in any boat, except in id = 23086 author = Work, Milton C. (Milton Cooper) title = Auction of To-day date = keywords = Ace; Declarer; Hand; King; Knave; Queen; Spade summary = originally declared unless the hand contain two sure high-card tricks, other suit; you can bid No-trump or double any adverse declaration, the suit that the Second Hand thinks of declaring, such a bid will With two Spades bid by the Dealer, if the Second Hand have a suit he bidding a long, weak suit, as the No-trump declarer may hold Ace, Queen bidding one No-trump, after a suit has been declared by the Dealer, is When the Second Hand has declared No-trump, Royals, or Hearts, his bid When the partner has declared No-trump, and the Third Hand has called Dealer bids a No-trump, and the Second Hand, two of a suit.[18] The only Dealer bids a No-trump, and the Second Hand, two of a suit.[18] The only suit declaration, called over a No-trump bid by the Dealer. When the Dealer has declared a suit, and the Second Hand, No-trump, the id = 42255 author = Yeats, Jack B. (Jack Butler) title = A Little Fleet date = keywords = Jack; Yeats; illustration summary = their vessels in than the small and winding Gara river and a very small deep to float ships drawing so little water might like to follow their slowly round until her masts and sails were underneath, and her stone On her fine, long voyage she passed all the dangers of the narrow reaches of the river, and sailed out into the deep, clear channel before But what we liked best was seeing the vessels of our fleet tearing and JACK YEATS''S CHAP BOOKS, _Printed for, and Sold by_ ELKIN MATHEWS, _in_ sheets, to be cut out and played on miniature stages. Twopence Coloured.'' It is announced that copies of the play Yeats''s latest play for the miniature stage, _The Yeats''s Plays for the Miniature Stage_ Yeats''s Plays for the Miniature Stage_ Yeats''s Plays for the Miniature Stage_ Yeats''s play (for a miniature theatre), ''James Flaunty; or, The id = 10028 author = nan title = Spalding''s Official Baseball Guide - 1913 date = keywords = Ball; Base; Boston; Chicago; Doyle; Giants; League; Louis; Mr.; National; New; Speaker; Stahl; York summary = most interesting work pertaining to base ball, the national game, which time the history of the national game of base ball." American game of base ball enables the player to determine in the Olympic Committee, New York, saying that if a game of Base Ball could be the New York club, I think the very fact that Boston had five games on The New York National League club had lost many of its players and, upon The time came that Mr. Brush learned that the New York Base Ball Club series season has been a feature of Base Ball the national game has the opening game for New York and the first man to bat for Boston was safe hits over second base for New York and both of the plays were of The fourth game of the series was played in New York on the following id = 19169 author = nan title = Baseball ABC date = keywords = illustration summary = B stands for BALL, A stands for ARTHUR, a boy fond of fun, A stands for ARTHUR, a boy fond of fun, B stands for BALL, for BAT, and for BASE. C stands for CATCHER, with mask on his face. H stands for HIGH-BALL, knocked up to the sky. H stands for HIGH-BALL, knocked up to the sky. J stands for JUDGEMENT, the Base-Keeper''s shout. J stands for JUDGEMENT, the Base-Keeper''s shout. L stands for LEFT-FIELD, who catches FLY-BALLS. L stands for LEFT-FIELD, who catches FLY-BALLS. N stands for NORMAN, who knocks the ball high. N stands for NORMAN, who knocks the ball high. P stands for PITCHER, a smart boy you see. R stands for RUNNER, who runs to each base. R stands for RUNNER, who runs to each base. T stands for THIRD-BASE, looked after by James. T stands for THIRD-BASE, looked after by James. id = 39025 author = nan title = Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport date = keywords = England; day; deer; good; great; horse; hound; hunting; little; long; man; punt; ride; shooting; shot; time; way; woman summary = authority on riding that no horse''s mouth is good enough for a snaffle, man can be a really good rider who is not fond of horses, and does not manage all sorts of horses, easy and difficult to ride, till she knows Row, the country ride along a road, or even the delights of fox-hunting men and women who know anything about horses look out for quality, good head put on the right way; whether in a horse over sixteen-hands or a Hunting people of long experience will tell us they have had one horse who know something of riding, of horses, and of horsemen--think of the _good_ scent will run away from any horse living. [6] When hounds run down a road, get your horse on the grass My old friend dismounts, leading his horse away, at the same time It would be a good thing if grooms at the horses'' heads _would_ let id = 41436 author = nan title = The Sportswoman''s Library, Vol. 1 of 2 date = keywords = Archery; Championship; Club; England; Golf; Ladies; Lady; Meeting; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Sir; St.; Union; ball; good; hand; hole; hound; illustration; play; player; woman summary = old-fashioned hare hunting hound are necessary to good sport, and that of the bow in your right hand, place the ball of your left thumb four called the teeing ground, and hitting the ball with various clubs till the ball, club, and hands being as nearly as possible in direct line ball, except that the player may place his feet firmly on the ground for for it from some way off of placing the ball out of holeing distance for 2. The game consists in each side playing a ball from a tee into a hole of his ball before he plays, whether in a line with the hole or A player''s side loses a stroke if he play the opponent''s ball, 7. If a competitor''s ball strike the other player, or his clubs, or 9. All balls shall be holed out, and when play is on the putting-green, id = 45762 author = nan title = Games and Songs of American Children date = keywords = Bridge; Celnart; England; Europe; France; Georgia; King; Lee; London; Mary; Massachusetts; New; Philadelphia; Pop; Rochholz; States; Vernaleken; York; american; child; come; dance; english; european; french; game; german; hand; illustration; little; old; ring; round summary = A majority of the games of children are played with rhymed formulas, that ancient ballads have sometimes passed into children''s games. festivities, forming the ring, and playing games which are included coquette that she "plays kissing games in rings of boys, preferring the Our first version shows the form of the game as played in New York in It is an old English song, which has been fitted for a ring-game by the sung by an old woman, the ring answering with the game-rhyme. used in New England as a children''s game or dance at evening parties. The French, Italian, and Spanish versions of this game also represent It is played by children in New York city as a kissing-game in the ring, A simple guessing-game, familiar to children in New England. This game is differently played by little girls in Philadelphia, thus: games which are not played also in an English form. id = 47243 author = nan title = The Sportswoman''s Library, Vol. 2 of 2 date = keywords = 15·1; Club; Committee; Court; Cox; Fig; Lawn; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Umpire; game; good; horse; illustration; line; stroke summary = small boat racing having been given the necessary fillip, the designers I sailed this little boat in several races, I steering and he doing the Ladies'' race (promoted by the _Gentlewoman_) on August 4th, Mrs. Oliphant who had a good mount in the _Florence_ was second, Miss Next day there was a little more wind, and _Lotus_ came in a very good small horse undoubtedly comes to time again sooner after a hard day. and lastly a long ride home, horse and man, or oftener woman, dead It will be a good thing when more women who ride to hounds know that a horse is best for a good woman with hounds, when he is seven the right hand on the rein to steady the horses, it is a very good plan line, and shall deliver the service from the right and left Courts id = 47254 author = nan title = Handbook of Summer Athletic Sports Comprising: Walking, Running, Jumping, Hare and Hounds, Bicycling, Archery, Etc. date = keywords = DIME; England; New; O''Leary; Rowell; Speaker; Weston; dialogue; good; man; mile; track summary = Giving the Rules for Training and Practice in Walking, Running, young man of good health and strength can learn to walk five miles in an hour, but the number of men who can walk twenty-five miles in The success of Weston and O''Leary in their long-distance walks in race was twenty miles short of the champion''s best walking record. In the upper figure we have the foot tracks of a man walking with well-trained man, and enables one like Hazael to run his 137 miles in A track 660 feet long gives 8 laps to the mile. mile--440 yards--in 48 1-4 seconds, beating the best English record From twenty-five up to fifty miles the best walking time on record seconds; while his 129th mile was walked in 24 hours 20 minutes and Howes leads the record for one-day walks with 127 miles, and O''Leary shall record the order of finishing and the times of the competitors 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, id = 9477 author = nan title = Spalding''s Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889 date = keywords = Association; Ball; Base; Boston; Brooklyn; Chicago; Club; Detroit; League; Louis; New; October; RULE; SEC; St.; Umpire; York; illustration; |At; |Louisville summary = _Secretary National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs._ complete line of Athletic Goods more prominently before Base Ball Players, A complete hand book of the national game of base ball, and the Chicagos at Indianapolis, the winning clubs being New York, the race, followed by Chicago, New York, Pittsburg, Detroit, Indianapolis, Detroit second, Boston third, New York fourth, Philadelphia fifth, TIE GAMES.--New York 7, Chicago 1, Philadelphia 1, Boston 3, Detroit 3, chance of making a base or of scoring a run; but when he hits a foul ball, W.S. KAMES, Esq, Secretary Athletic Base Ball Club, Philadelphia: NEXT BEST LEAGUE CLUB GAME.--Played at St. Louis on May 1, 1877, between from the League clubs of New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Pittsburg and of the Home Base, shall be termed a Foul Tip. BALLS BATTED OUTSIDE THE GROUNDS. THE LEAGUE--NEW YORK, CHICAGO, BOSTON, DETROIT, WASHINGTON, INDIANAPOLIS, id = 9916 author = nan title = Spalding''s Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 date = keywords = Baltimore; Base; Boston; Brooklyn; Chicago; Cincinnati; Cleveland; July; League; Louis; Louisville; New; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; St.; Washington; York; club; section summary = [Illustration: Baltimore Base Ball Club. [Illustration: New York Base Ball Club, ''94.] plan of rival League clubs in the larger base ball cities of the Union. organization of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, A. The Eastern League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, William C. League championship campaigns the Boston and Chicago clubs won the and the close of the first day''s play saw the Boston and New York clubs single and double figure games of the New York and Boston clubs is as division, the Pittsburgh, New York, Louisville, Washington, Brooklyn and percentage of victories of .526, Boston, Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Brooklyn clubs in order; New York the New York and Boston clubs for second place and that between Brooklyn NEW YORK BASE BALL CLUB, ''94. Clubs, Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington,