Kong by Canadian Pacific Royal Mail Steamship; China Navigation Co. or Eastern and Australian S.S. Co. to Sydney, and by Messageries Maritimes, Norddeutscher Lloyd, Orient Line, or P. & O., via Colombo and Suez Canal to London or vice versa.

ROUTE 3.£143. ($715.00)

Railway, London to Liverpool or Southampton; choice of Transatlantic Steamship Lines, Liverpool or Southampton to Quebec, Montreal, St. John, N.B., Halifax, Boston, or New York; Canadian Pacific Railway direct route from Quebec, Montreal, St. John, N.B., or Halifax, or direct rail lines from Boston or New York to Montreal, thence Canadian Pacific Railway to Vancouver; Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Steamship Line, Vancouver to Honolulu, H.I., Suva, Fiji, Wellington, N.Z., and Sydney, Australia; Orient Line, or P. & O., Sydney to Melbourne, Adelaide, King George's Sound, Colombo, Aden, Port Said, Gibraltar and London, or Port Said, Marseilles or Brindisi and London.

A TINFOIL ADHESIVE FOR CONDENSERS

A very good way to secure tinfoil on condenser plates, and one which will not cause blistering, which is so disastrous to condensers, is as follows: Place the plates to be coated in a moderately warm oven and heat them for about 5 minutes. Then remove them and rub the surface with beeswax. Place the tinfoil over the wax and smooth down. It is advisable to place a lug of thin copper ribbon on the plate under the tinfoil before the tinfoil is put on. The corners should be painted with beeswax after the tinfoil has been placed on the glass. It is best to round the corners of the tinfoil sheet. Beeswax is far superior to shellac for this purpose.

HOW TO PREPARE FEATHERS

Plumes and fancy feathers are provided by the manufacturers with wire stems in order that they may be posed at any angle. They are sewed directly to the shape or to a foundation of buckram or rice net which is afterward sewed to the hat. When sewed directly to the hat the wire stem must be concealed or covered in some way. It is usually covered by an ornament either made in the workroom or manufactured as an ornament for the purpose. Or the stems are wound with silk or velvet ribbon. Small foundations of rice net cut any shape required, round, square or triangular, are bound with shirring wire and used for this purpose. After the stems of the feathers are sewed to them, the foundation is sewed to the shape.

MAKING TUCKS

Tucks are made by basting plaits in a fabric and stitching them. They are usually placed in parallel rows and are uniform in width. They may be varied in width, however. If they are placed in groups in which they gradually increase or diminish in width, they are said to be graduated.

To make tucks, therefore, it is necessary first to lay the material in a plait of uniform width, and then baste this plait into place. Finally sew the plait in the material. Remove the basting threads and press with a warm iron on the wrong side.

Tucks are sewn in by hand or by machine stitching. The running stitch is used with an occasional back stitch introduced to hold the sewing firmly.

TO LAUNDER CHIFFONS

These sheer, delicate fabrics may be cleansed by sousing them in alcohol to which has been added a little pure soap solution. They should be rinsed in clear alcohol and spread flat, without wringing, on a linen or other absorbent cloth until dry. Chiffon should dry without wrinkling, but, if pressing is necessary, this may be done on the wrong side with a slightly heated iron. Chiffon can also be cleansed in a suds made of rain water and castile soap, rinsed, and put through the wringer between folded towels.

TO LAUNDER FINE LINGERIE

Delicate lingerie waists, the fine dresses of infants, and all thin, sheer fabrics should be washed by themselves in warm suds made of mild soap and rain water, or a naturally very soft water. The garments should be swished up and down and gently kneaded until cleansed. If they are so soiled as to need rubbing, they may be laid between towels and the towels rubbed with the hands, or the soiled parts may be laid over a white cloth and gently rubbed on this foundation with the fingers and in the direction of the warp threads, lest the weave be "pulled." Should boiling be necessary, the fine garments should be enclosed in a linen bag or clean pillowslip, put on in cold water, and removed when this comes to a boil. The only allowable deterrent, besides a mild soap, for either washing or boiling fine things, is a little borax. Rinsing should be very thoroughly done, especially in the case of infants' clothing, lest a trace of alkali be left to irritate the delicate skin. Bluing is preferably omitted, or sparingly used. Fine things are apt to be injured if hung on the line, and are best dried on a sheet stretched on the ground.

Lavender scented water is sometimes used for the last rinsing of fine nightgowns, infants' wear, thin dresses, etc.

5. Draw up check and receipt forms for your class as an organization; for yourself as a business man; for your teacher; for your father.

6. Draw up a financial statement for a club of which you are a member.

7. Draw up an annual or a semi-annual report for a club of which you are a member.

8. Arrange a program to be given by your class. Names of musical and literary authors must be given as well as those of performers. Variation in styles of type used must make clear which is which.

9. Write the minutes of your last recitation in English; of your last club meeting; of your last assembly; of your last family dinner, etc.

10. Draw up a statement, to be accompanied with a chart, of the attendance of your class during the past week or month. Follow the exercise in number 10 with a report on absence, its cause, its remedy, and its effects.

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12. Chart the various kinds of directive explanation of which you know. Define and characterize each briefly, and differentiate certain types from certain others.

13. Convert your class into an organization. Appoint officers and committees. Have certain committees report on certain recitations, other committees on other recitations. Appoint a committee to blanket these reports, i.e., combine them into one big report, ready to be submitted to the president.

14. Deduce a brief concise statement from the report worked out under number 13, giving statistics of failure, of success, of variation in standing in the different recitations.

15. Imagine that a general school fair is to be held for which everything is prepared by the pupils themselves:

(a) Devise a program for the entertainment.

(b) Write recipes for goodies sold.

(c) Write patterns for costumes worn.

(d) Explain how certain experiments or operations are performed

for exhibition purpose.

(e) Draw up menus for refreshments.

(f) Make a report of the affair.

(g) Make out a statement of the returns.

APPENDIX

CAPITALIZATION AND PUNCTUATION

There are two distinct schools of punctuation. The one believes that the old hard-and-fast rules for punctuation formulated about 1870 should be closely followed; this is closed punctuation. The other believes that punctuation should be used only when it is absolutely necessary for clarifying the thought in the sentence; this is open punctuation. To illustrate, one of the most common of comma rules says, "Words out of their natural order should be set off by the comma"; thus, in "Finally she was ready to go," the closed punctuation would insist upon placing a comma after "Finally." Open punctuation would not place a comma there. The tendency at present is to use the open punctuation. The best live and usable authority on the subject is the good newspaper or magazine. The punctuation rules of the printshop are the best ones for guidance in your writing.

Punctuation is to be felt and heard quite as much as it is to be seen. It is better to under-punctuate than to over-punctuate. Read aloud to your classmates a passage with no punctuation, and you will leave them breathless and bewildered. Read them a passage that is over-punctuated, and you will leave them nervous and confused. Read them a passage that is properly punctuated, and you will probably interest and entertain them. The modern tendency, especially in business expression, is to minimize punctuation. Short, terse expression, such as is required for business purposes, should not be retarded too